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[…]

Free at Last
After 32 long years on the run, justice is finally done in one of the greatest miscarriages of US Military justice.[…]

Great London Books #1: Nairn’s London by Ian Nairn (1966)
“Nairn’s London” is perhaps the about-architecture version of the music book of my (our?) dreams. It’s smart and its funny and it doesn’t bother second gues[…]

London Submerged: “It is a vast stagnant swamp, which no man dare enter, since death would be his inevitable fate.”: short extracts from After London, by Richard Jefferies, a post-apocalyptic Victorian novel which imagines the city choked[…]

A red-blooded birthday to VIC FLURO! (lots more great covers here)[…]

That list of discontinued olympic events in full.
My favourite, cruelly missed out of the OSM list, is still the swimming obstacle race. Apparently Frederick Lane, the Australian winner, had grown up around Sydney harbour and was thus used to clambe[…]

Practical Criticism III
Yesterday’s back-and-forth focussed on the prospects for paid, printed music writing. I like the magazine format because it gives me something to read on the tube, and because a good editor can make already talented writ[…]