SABALON GLITZ
Ufonic
Or, whatever happened to that one guy that was supposedly going to be famous, 1341541564th in a series.
For the first time, I’m getting around to listening to the (I think) one album by Chicago group Sabalon Glitz from ba[…]

FT Top 100 Films
50: ANNIE HALL
I love Annie Hall. There you go, not much more for me to say on that subject really. It completely invented a type of romantic comedy, and laid the template for the standard Woody Allen film that he would flop back to […]

map that proves that london is donut-shaped
it is simple: i. the City of Westminster cannot be part of the city of london by logic IT IS THE CITY OF WESTMINSTER WITH A COMPLETELY DIFFT NAME!! ii. City of London – called ‘City’ on o[…]

Return to Treasure Island
[See also here, here, here and here]
In Captain Kidd and the War Against the Pirates Harry Ritchie remarks, a propos the legends of Kidd’s lost treasure, ?the idea of burying loot on a tropical island would have struck[…]

If Ping Pong was too tame for you, and the lack of death in Shaolin Soccer got you down – there is always Battlefield Baseball. Probably not coming to a cinema near us soo.[…]

My favourite views of London
(There’s a few of these so I’m going to write about them across the month)
There’s something about seeing a big city from a distance that’s really satisfying, not only do you get a sense of the siz[…]

BLUDY Observer Sports Monthly!!! I’ve been talking about doing this (or similar) for weeks and they beat me to it. They have missed out a couple of classics though, which i shall tell the tales of here, once i’ve worked out which of the […]

It means nothing without Zone 6 — my first impression of London whenever I’ve visited isn’t of London per se. Or maybe it is but I’ll let the hair splitters decide whether Heathrow is part of London or not.
So what for those […]

Ping Pong (the Japanese film based on the manga) did not seem that unusual a premise for a Japanese film at first. Of course the Japanese are obsessed with table tennis, the inattentive racist in my bonce said. The film picked me up – the scary[…]

The Literary Mind by Mark Turner
A deceptively titled book. It’s about the nature of thought and grammar, and proposes that we invert the way we think about the origin of language, and more specifically the skeleton of concepts underlying langu[…]