“and if the devil doesn’t like it he can sit on a tack!”
“Even before Family Christian started selling its karaoke music line, its store in Augusta, Ga., was holding monthly karaoke nights that really weren’t karaoke ni[…]

The only living American boy in New Cross (not necessarily true) — as I mentioned yesterday, I had reason to be in New Cross for two of my London trips, and while I can’t say I got to know the entire area or anything like that, for me, fo[…]

A LONDON SONGBOOK
SHAM 69 – “Red London (Live)”: Did you know that in their first ever review Julie Burchill wrote “Sham 69 play rock’n’roll in the manner that American negroes fight, not for fun but for existence&[…]

X-Seed 4000: Some great browsing at this buildings site – this is the tallest building in their ‘vision’ section for structures which are never likely to be built. It seems somewhat arbitrary to say that the X-Seed is the tallest bu[…]

Fireworks
To celebrate the 50th birthday of CERN a firework display was held telling the story of the universe. It included a big bang (obviously), inflation, fundamental forces, matter, stars and planets. According to Rolf Landau, who helped design […]

UK Gay Community Falls In Love With Football
So say the Guardian. People in ‘liking popular things’ shocker.[…]

Perhaps I was a little harsh on the quality of some of London’s riverside architecture. Especially when you consider that once upon a time the good people of Battersea could have been given this[…]

Metropolimbo
Perhaps the biggest disadvantage with growing up in a surburban satellite such as the towns within the Zone 5/6 boundary is that while you feel comfort in being able to experience both urban thrills and rural bliss quicker than most, you[…]

Elders Of The Universe: It gives me great pleasure to pronounce K-Punk bang on the money in this post about the fabulous language of Marvel:
“Part of the reason why I love Marvel so much is that it inculcated a feeling for language in me at a y[…]

Virginia Woolf’s ‘Lost London Essay’: linked more out of duty to the readership than admiration.[…]