the gold to ciba-geigy, the silver to roche…
half-watching that c4 prog on doping last night, mark s and the “unspecified guests” solved the moral-philosophical problem of chemical enhancement viz like in grand prix, the teams shd[…]

BLIMEY! The olympics haven’t even started yet and already we’ve had world records, a footballing upset and a ferdinand-esque missed drug test. Stay tuned over the next three weeks for me waxing lyrical over keirin, synchronised diving a[…]

The Killers Press Posters.
This poster is labial pink, barbie pink, has the bands name in marquee lights, and the only image is a woman, cut off at the waist, back arched, stripper heels. It’s crass, it’s boring, it’s violent, it ha[…]

All the talk downscreen about the ‘uses’ of music got me thinking. Thinking about shelving. Sure, I ‘use’ music as much as the next blogger but the music I actually ‘use’ is pretty much entirely dependent on storag[…]

Digging one up from the archives — this isn’t a new piece, but I stumbled across it in my work files; originally it ran on FT back in 2000 when it was a dot-com and was lost in the Internet underworld along with that domain. There are a […]

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Most anti-dangle name ever
Foreign sports star has crazy name shocka! Though this is very good indeed.
Knock it up to the Big Fucka.[…]

Skateboarding near the Thames — a brief observation today on how world culture functions. I still remember the first time I was at the Royal Festival Hall — trying to remember who was on that night, Jarvis Cocker’s one off Touch of[…]

Tesla – Five Man Acoustical Jam
I first heard a snippet of Tesla performing “Signs” on a taped episode
of Raw Power in around 1990/1 – or was it the Kerrang TV show, you know
the one presented by Mosher or Thrasher or whatever[…]

We’ll RAC to it that your career ends in ignominy
Genius retires from international football the day double life is revealed as father of five from Milton Keynes.
The same age, and a separate car so he could get to Madrid for the weekends. And[…]