GREAT EASTERN ADVENTURES aka Sarah Goes To Shoreditch.
The Strongroom is a) a bar and b) in Shoreditch. The Old Street/Shoreditch/Hoxton area is a part of London where my usual friendliness with the city declines. I’ve lived in London for year[…]

The Physics Detective Part Four — Lorimer the Louse
“But at least he finished his referee’s report before he died” … !!!
Pretty much a transition episode this week, since nobody’s buying Lorimer as a serious susp[…]

ja tvoi sluga
(since i know she won’t publicise it herself)[…]

Day 21: The Devil Went Down To Georgia
AROUND THE WORLD IN 80 LOUSY TUNES
I slept the night in a Jersey Bus Station feeling like an unclean tramp. I spent about half an hour int he toilets just to wash off the general Tom Waitsiness off of my body. I[…]

THE FT TOP 100 SONGS
88. Subway Sect – “Ambition”
Sarah says
What’s the matter, Vic? “I don’t write any words you get in rock songs…I like those words – that seem out of place in a rock song.” It&[…]

Plowing The Dark by Richard Powers
I was discussing spoilers yesterday with Anthony Easton. This was in the context of movie reviews, but it had been on my mind thinking about this novel that I had just finished. The main strand is of a bunch of hots[…]

Man U ultras’ anti-Glazer tactics – notably the revelation that “the group also claim to have a severed horses head” which they are waiting to unleash. For some reason the idea of this waiting neatly in someone’s freezer[…]

nick.K is dead
Holy shit.
An ILX thread.[…]

The Pazz and Jop 2004 poll is up. Go nuts.[…]

Gay Bar! I wanna take you to a GAY BAR! And what shall we drink in this gay bar? Well – why not…
Gay Beer
or possibly
Gay Wine
Reading these stories – especially the wine one – you might be forgiven for thinking that the marke[…]