Pop Quiz Report
Pub: The Rosemary Branch, Shepperton Road, N1. It looks like this is the latest addition to the estate of the Remarkable Restaurant Company because it has the same style and the same beers as The Approach and The Swimmers. Still a goo[…]

There are only two reasons to read the Evening Standard in my opinion. This nastily right wing London newspaper is only edged out by the Daily Mail in offensiveness and because it employs two great regular columnists. On of them is Victor Lewis-Smith[…]

Watching the downhill mountain biking on BBC2 on Sunday it struck me that this is what they do in Switzerland in the summer. What to do with ski run when it runs out of snow? Answer knock out a basic trail through the nearby woods and get people padd[…]

Takashi Murakami- Mr. Cloud.
He used to meditate between the orientalism of the west and the fetishizing of western progress found in Japan. With the mushroom cloud deaths head bunny (1) he asked Japan if they could make anything cute, with My Lones[…]

Something Rainy just messaged to me made me look something up, and I realised that this was prefigured on this thread: in other words, yet again an idea I fondly thought I had had all by myself was had earlier (as usual by Alan T). Still: “no-t[…]

Days of plenty: autumn brings blessed relief from the sluggish summer art season. I spent this weekend trawling the still-sunny streets of London for exciting new stuff. And found it. The greatest thrill is finding a new artist who’s doing some[…]

Quarks And Charms: the “Blogosphere” just keeps on grrrrrrrowing. (Though I prefer Simon R’s other coining, “music press in exile”, both for its chest-puffing qualities and the vision it summons of a bunch of squabbling,[…]

Striker vs The Sun – from the Striker comic’s official news website (via Parallax View). I’d resisted picking up a copy of Striker precisely because I’d assumed it was a News International publication – but no, it’[…]

The new teacher training ad, with its somewhat child-unfriendly image of headless people wandering around, is unlikely to help recruitment. “Oi” – it is saying – “you, in the braindead masses. Why not do the only job in […]

Leakedalbums.com: the embryo of a very good idea indeed – systematically finding out which albums have leaked, pointing you at them and writing about them. So far the site seems fairly tethered to what a typical ILM reader (or as typical a read[…]