Just a reminder of this. We’re busy plotting those 80s/00s pop connections now and it’s going to be a lot of fun. Suggestions are, of course, welcome![…]

Good work Disturbed! We are now maybe three outraged news stories away from someone actually, seriously, using the phrase “Death To False Metal!” again. Then The Darkness’ work here will be complete.[…]

Roy Lichtenstein Retrospective, Hayward Gallery, London
Pop Art sways to the whims of fashion. One minute it’s equipped with a Hoxton fin, the next it dresses like Chris Eubank. Judging from the hoards of people, it’s back in vogue again.[…]

Hog’s Wash: Rebranding outside the pub sphere is something I’m quite sanguine about. If the criticism is that it’s a cosmetic and meaningless change then why get worked up about it? Within the world of booze though rebranding goes h[…]

Advertorial: the new (2004) edition of LMA Manager is out on the PS2. I LOVE IT. It’s better looking than ever; the new features are exactly what I’d have asked for; the match engine produces something which looks a little bit similar to […]

This month’s tenth planet found in Kuiper Belt – anyone following the links on the right of the BBC’s story will find many remarkably similar stories in the archives, though my favourite extra planet story is still this one (itself […]

TS:Victorian Tudor Gothicvs Neo New-Elizabethan Gothic Tudor
you decide!! yay!!![…]

TROTS IN SPACE!!
Grrr, Uncarved beat me to the link. I meant to write something abt the plans and politics of other radical space orgs, such as the since-disbanded AAA, but the Fortean Times took such an age to get this on-line that other projects i[…]

Heartwood by James Lee Burke
I wrote an item months ago suggesting that genre writers in general, taking crime as a good example, are still undervalued by the literary critics and academics, and by extension by most readers. Then I was especially tal[…]

One of the more arresting and memorable exhibits at Bilbao’s glorious Guggenheim for me was Pierre Huyghe’s ‘One Million Landscapes’ from 2001, the somewhat retro-futurist CGI reminiscent of Shynola and Alex Rutterford‘s[…]