Pub Olympics: the idea of a pub olympics has long been a pet one and often half-heartedly discussed among my fellow disciples of Organised Fun. However I now have the power to turn idea into action – for our work charity each country is putting[…]

Tickle Talk Update
An essay on editing, with case studies. Possibly the last essay from the third greatest ever BB contestant, but easily the most interesting, and only coincidentally agreeing with my feelings on the matter. Many BB fans manage to ho[…]

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(Confessions Of A Metropolitan Claustrophobe part 1)
Living and travelling around and through London is easy on the Tube, despite all it’s flaws. But take it away and the nightmarish urban journey takes on a new dimension. A[…]

MORCHEEBA – “The Great London Traffic Warden Massacre”: The parking shop at Wandsworth Town Hall is a mass of low expectations thoroughly met – laminate zone maps on formica tables, chewed pencils on raffia strings, customers […]

FT Top 100 Films
49: CROUCHING TIGER HIDDEN DRAGON
Martin Skidmore says:
I love this film. It’s full of great moments and scenes, beautifully shot, mostly flawlessly acted, with glorious cinematography. I love the scene with the petite girl (Zh[…]

Tube Trouble
It’s curious the way people react when the underground has problems. Last night flash floods created mayhem and several stations closed. Bank station was also closed but this was due to ‘a fire’. These things amuse me. […]

No.1
The Grove Tavern, Walthamstow
I like the Grove for three reasons: 1) It has proper locals, 2) Sunday night is ‘song night’ and 3) I used to live opposite.
The Grove is a small square boozer on the corner of a late Victorian terrace. […]

“You will worship dEUS”
Although I’m not the die-hard dEUS fans I used to be, I still keep track of all things gODly. So, after his film and his collaboration with CJ Bolland, Tom Barman has decided to produce a new dEUS single,&#82[…]

This album grabbed me from the beginning: I have an article in progress on soul music in which I refer to “the peerlessly composed intro to Al Green’s ‘Love And Happiness’”, and that intro is sampled for the first track.
It&#8[…]

No way to run a comic: Al told me about this site at the weekend, it may have been linked here before but I don’t remember it. It’s an exhaustive (35 long pages) examination of the Spider-Man “Clone Saga” – the storyline[…]