Reflections on a Valentine’s-semi-themed dinner with friends:
1) Don’t actually make it a Valentine’s event and it’s *perfect*
2) Leave the only sign of the season to be an absolutely delicious heart-shaped chocolate cake bu[…]

FIVE POINTS
by Tyler Anbinder
New York City lore is something I know a bit of but couldn’t care much about otherwise — this is because I’m a horrible person, of course — but more to the point it’s generally alien to my e[…]

THE STEREOPHONICS
“Dakota”
Desperate but not serious. It is however extremely funny to realize they’re trying to break America all the more (except much-more-famous-than-the-Stereophonics-Kelly Kelly Clarkson seems to have trumped […]

HIDDEN LONDON #2: Bell Green, Catford
erm i don’t know much more about than that it exists – which i didn’t know even this morning – but on my way through it from bromley back to london bridge my TRAIN HIT A TREE!!
branches […]

ja tvoi rabotnik
“LEACHIM was a talking robot that didn’t move. He would ask the children questions and tell them if they had answered right or wrong. If they answered a very important question wrong, for example, about violence, LEACHIM[…]

Walls
http://www.themorningnews.org/archives/personalities/fleeting/index.htmlMarshall
Sokoloff’s fotos are large-scale c prints of graffiti that havebeen painted over by civil authorities in places like Toronto andPortland. The great thing is […]

Shark
Apparently Damien Hirst’s shark is falling apart in his tank, and it is almost impossible for conservators to fix it–he got bad advice in he beginning, and now the New York museum of Modern Art has hired the curator of fish from the[…]

Thanks to Hit or Miss for having us last night. We played an eclectic four-cornered tag-team set to the filmic backdrop of Monkey and FLASH! GORDON! What a great film Flash Gordon is, other films blush at the very name. Anyway, Steve played the indie[…]

DC Comics’ marketing department are really giving it some at the moment. Imagine my surprise when I opened up the Guardian this morning to see a great big piece (with large 3-panel excerpt) on Grant Morrison’s new Vinamarama miniseries! Y[…]

Football Poetry

Not sure if this has been linked before. Some of them are absolute cock, but not all.[…]