Jay-Z – “The Takeover”
Joe M says:
The Jay-Z attack on Nas in ‘Takeover’ is a masterpiece because he acknowledges that Illmatic was a great album, and even that another unspecified Nas album was insert equivocal hand-wav[…]

Belov’d of seventies and eighties US cop shows, the Cosy Comedy Gag ending appears to have developed as a syndication buffer. What it actually consisted of was a back at base coda to the show. No matter how dramatic that weeks episode of The St[…]

A recent pub argument ended up pitting the near worthless cinematic careers of Robin Williams and Steve Martin. I believe the jury found slightly in favour of Martin (though nice things were said about Popeye), though Martin’s win was largely l[…]

It is December, which can mean just one thing in the pubgoing world. PUB AMATEUR MONTH IS HERE. Yes, it is the time when Christmas cheer = poorly ordered beer, when Guinness is suddenly the last drink ordered and your waiting time will rocket. So her[…]

Yes, yes – the bad sex award. All very TITter-worthy and purient, and in many ways deserved : (Fustar takes pains to look at the Giles Coren bit). Nevertheless for all this jocularity, it does tend to ignore the fact that describing sex is actu[…]

It’s been dark at 4 in the afternoon here, and I have been doing mostly admin work at home lately. I just came back from the hospital, I’ve been feeling sad,cold, ambiguous, lonely…Intensely lonely.
I don’t think its possible[…]

“and the lion shall lie down with the lamb, and the lamb shall kick the lion’s butt“[…]