National Poetry Day (Thursday 9th October) highlights:
(Apologies in advance for UK-centricism.) This year is the 10th National Poetry Day, and the theme is ‘Britain’ and national identity. That should bring in the punters…The big g[…]

Last night I ate a Springbok. Not a South African egg chaser of course, rather the South African antelope which burst across the veldt with uncanny speed and grace (but not so much speed and grace that they don’t get caught I guess). What was s[…]

Third Factory – a poetry weblog which showed up by near-coincidence in Freaky Trigger’s referrals, checked night and day by teams of obsessive monkeys. It makes the Wedge look like a cesspit of philistinism, but on the other hand none of […]

NME Originals: The Rolling Stones nicely bundles up NME and Melody Maker cuttings from the 60s. Nothing too heavy – no Mars Bars, no murder – but enough froth for a month of idle breakfast-time pondering of simpler times spent scouring th[…]

The reference to Thai Sweet Chilli got me thinking about my favourite ever instant noodle dood. I’ve always been a fan of the Pot Noodle; it conjures up memories of playing text-adventure games in my early teenage years when I’d eat about[…]

APPARATUS
1 bear, 1 tree, 1 trampoline, 1 TV camera and stopwatch
METHOD
We let the bear climb up into the tree and then we put the trampoline under the tree and then my friend Simon shot him with a tranquilizer dart and I filmed it for the telly.
RE[…]

SENSATIONS WATCH: Always first to sell out round our way = Thai Sweet Chilli.[…]

There’s a point at which I can’t believe this is ever going to work. Two tins of what can only be described as brown sludge have been in the oven for the exact time specified in the recipe. I can’t see them actually bubbling and spi[…]

The earth spins faster in the middle than it does at the poles, where (in the limit) it doesn’t move at all. If a plane in the northern hemisphere is flying south, the earth’s movement from right to left beneath it will become faster as t[…]

Blink and you miss it commentary on Blaine from the back of yesterday’s Guardian, by Jerry Sadowitz. Sounds like a convincing debunk to me — but what do I know? — I think all magicians are paid to lie to us, like politicians. Which […]