More Shirty Thoughts
This is an extremely obvious point. So obvious in fact, I had to check I hadn’t blogged it before, but it seems not.
It is far easier to view an offside position if a team’s shirts matches its socks. All the linesman […]

The Square Table: 1 / Rachel Stevens – “Some Girls”
Pop Rating: 723 Controversy Score: 205 Length: 213
He almost botches it. This is Richard X’s big shot at writing a Pop Classic and when Rachel’s vocals glide dispassion[…]

Some more Dylanology f’ya.
After the sudden spurt of Dylanology* downscreen, I’ve just finished Toby Thompson’s ‘Positively Main Street’. Like George Melly’s Revolt Into Style, it positively fizzes with contemporar[…]

Faint Praise: blimey I thought those money-grabbing game-bleeders were supposed to talk up their clients? Glenn Hoddle’s agent, discussing his charge’s inexplicable link with the job of managing the French football team, says (according t[…]

Pete’s kind of right about football shirts in that they are all, pretty much, as horrible as each other. Even if some team somewhere happens on a pleasing combination of colours, the material always looks nasty. Me, I don’t wear them: I s[…]

The Second Tale of Glory from Copa America
I was off sick yesterday. I needed something to restore my health and ease the grogginess. I needed Copa America.
Argentina brushed aside Ecuador, turning on some second-half style to win 6-1. Javier Saviol[…]

I’m not a driver, but op-ed writers shifting into film critic mode — as happens a lot around films like ‘Fahrenheit 9/11’ — seem to me to emit that bad-gear-change ‘crunk’ sound so familiar from my few disast[…]

There’s a huge streak of bitterness running through this, but I’m surprised no-one has really analysed the winning goal by Greece in the Euro 2004 final.
Take a look at these pictures:

There’s several things to note. Firstly (and t[…]

You can get Unicum in the Tiroler Hut in Westbourne Grove. You can also get this:

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Is this the nastiest liquor in the world? The web sez: a unique taste based on 40 secret herbs and spices. Your publog correspondent sez: hurrah, at last a drink based on fermented earwax![…]