I Heart Germany
In Club Bastard in Berlin this weekend, I spotted and advert for the International Football Film Festival.

Brilliant – a festival packed with football films, and I’ll miss it. All those debates about whether football can […]

When Michael Moore was making Fahrenheit 9/11, and whinging on about the Patriot Act, he managed to miss one of the most insidious aspects of this rushed piece of law. The fact that The Patriot Act is so protectionist and anti-competition that it act[…]

PopNose MP3 of the Week
1. Pipkins – “Gimme Dat Ding”
Welcome one and all to the slight return of PopNose, an MP3 each week (at least initially) which will build over time into a De’Agostini style partwork celebrating the uniq[…]

In 1969 Ed Ruscha attached a camera to his car and drove down Sunset Strip, automatically taking a foto of every building on the street. These fotos noted the anthropology of place, the nature of photography, the implications of autonomous creation, […]

The Newton Arms, Holborn
What a difference an hour or two makes. Squeezing my way in to this pub on Friday at half six I was pretty sure it was the worst boozer I’d been to in a long time. With precious few tables (though a lot of stools) and a[…]

Site News: All the old articles should now be back, and also all the pictures, including the Ultimate Future Shock.
Also! I cornered our lovely host in the pub last night and said “I wish we could do MP3s again”. “Wellllll…..&[…]

The Physics Detective Part Three — Baumgarden Under the Gun
I believe Baumgarden’s story. He seems like the “smoke pot on weekends and sip scotch during late nights at the office” type, not the “I carry grudges against e[…]

My preferred spelling of ‘love,’ I think, because it sounds off, and therefore either soppy or stupid or fun or some combination of the same.
My emotional life is something I’ve kept more to myself over time, and I admit the regre[…]

The poetry of Dan Corbett.
The best weather forecaster on telly seems to be getting more of the BBC1 slots he deserves. These are just a few of the lines delivered in his compelling, reanimated-Bob-Monkhouse style at the end of yesterday’s lunc[…]

THE FT TOP 100 SONGS
89.5 Skeletal Family – “Promised Land”
The first of more than forty goth records in the top 100, this track was unanimously agreed upon by everyone at Freaky Trigger in some pub around Christmas. Two even sporte[…]