Up the Pacific Coast from San Diego to San Francisco by submarine
It was travel but not one of the most scenic of routes, in that there wasn’t much to see. But back in 1979 my dad’s submarine the Pollack — as the history notes, he r[…]

PRESENTERATOR
Scary people for a scary world
#4: PAUL “What would you spend that money on?” MARTIN
Those of you who’ve been spending a fair bit of time indoors lately may well have noticed that daytime BBC is beginning to resemble a[…]

MORTON FELDMAN – “Why Patterns?”
I quite honestly don’t want to listen to this fucking thing again.
I played it while watching a TV show a few days ago and felt a chill, then felt…irritation. I turned it down and just le[…]

Great Ceefax TV Listings Of Our Time
BBC2
0600: TELETUBBIES– Extended weekend edition[…]

And then again maybe you win some after all — looks like things aren’t as bad as I said earlier regarding the Genesis mission. “We should be able to meet many, if not all, of our primary science goals,” said physicist Roger W[…]

When a wineglass that has stayed overnight with a few drops of wine in it is filled with water, the smell of rose emerges.[…]

FT Top 100 Films
33: THE BIG LEBOWSKI
Martin Skidmore says:
I guess this was among the inevitable inclusions in this list – there must be hatas somewhere among young/ish people, but I don’t know them. Jeff Bridges, one of my absolute favo[…]

Comics On The Radio. Unfortunately this new spree of BBC led comics on the radio (?) are not by pioneer Dirk Maggs, who did some odd comic adaptations on Radio One in the mid-nineties (in surround sound natch). Maggs’s version of The Death Of […]

So it comes down to this. The final day of the competition, and I have nine minutes to beat. Should not be too hard eh?
BOXING. Uh-oh. The boxing causes me a slight problem. I do not particualrly want to watch it, but my Dad likes boxing, I am in the[…]

POP FACTOR: 288 CONTROVERSY RATING: 226
The problem with retro in a pop context: absorbing the lesson that things were better back when can limit you. If you believe in the golden past then maybe you subconsciously believe that all YOU can do is pu[…]