Some people gave up on the chips in The Calthorpe Arms when the chicken nuggets ran out and they were plainly cold and soggy. Only mine and Steve’s uniquely British eye for hidden fat noticed tiny spots of congealing dripping for chip dipping. […]

I have a US Pocket Book edition of Jeeves by P.G.Woodehouse. I am not sure what Jeeves it is, I am pretty sure there wasn’t a Woodehouse book just called Jeeves, but it is certainly Jeeves and Bertie in their inimitable fashion; the latter gett[…]

KILLER MIKE – A.D.I.D.A.S.
Being not a song about his stinky trainers, though I daresay this is the only aspect of him which is truly a killer, but rather his mental processes. Cleverly this footwear advert is an acronym for All Day I Dream Abo[…]

Jockeys protest over mobile phone ban. No word yet on whether trainers yelling into hands free kits straight to the horses ear are also banned. It is unclear whether they have been banned as a safety measure, to avoid cheating or if the horses were g[…]

Unlike the 1980’s dancical Shag, this years attempt at redoing the Fame formula Camp revels in the dual meaning of its title. Yes, this may ostensiably be a teen movie set in a summer camp, but this is a theatrical summer camp. It is certainly […]

RYAN ADAMS – “SO ALIVE”
another year, another handful of ryan adams releases. now, say what you will about the whiskeytown records (i’ll say they were mostly patchy), but they did hint at, if nothing else, an individual voice.[…]

Tracer Hand, newly arrived in London, eats pizza with me in Chinatown, and tells of the Mexican restaurants in New York City which are run and staffed by the Chinese. I approve, obv – at least if vice versa is established also, soon (and all ot[…]

It was the major cultural fashion immediately before Romanticism: big mistake. Two-and-a-half centuries later, the look of the 18th century pretty remains the default setting for “datedness”. The Classical Revival buildings, the flouncy c[…]

Space Jerky!
The opening montage of The American Astronaut, after our hero’s bumpy landing on Ceres in his railroad spacecraft, is of him fixing up everything that’s fallen down, intercut with dry-shaving his whiskers off, tidying up his […]

I’m sure I’d make a terrible barman, and I’m sure my first night on the job would be a disaster, but I’m also sure I’d be nowhere near as bizarrely inept as the girl who served me after work last night. ‘I’d […]