This is three days late but it has to be said. Trick or treat children in pubs. NO.[…]

Our Lady of Sorrows: long piece on Billie Holiday. Looks interesting.[…]

My mind’s elsewhere today but for the sake of content (c’mon team) here are Guardian reviews of the Spice Girls (bad) and Fatboy Slim (worse). I can’t imagine the critics are too far wrong in either case.[…]

A half of bitter is probably the cheapest alcoholic drink that you can order in a pub – it would be Old Kent Road on a drinker’s Monopoly board. I had one last night, not out of poverty (someone else’s round) but because, perversel[…]

The Cultural Hulk: Al picks up the mouse and draws once again.[…]

I HATE MUSIC: freakytrigger.com is gradually getting back to working order and the first thing I restored is Tanya’s site (sans archives, sadly, for the moment). There’s nothing new there, because I’ve not told Tanya yet that she ca[…]

Here is Bob Stanley talking about Canada’s attempt to keep Eminem out of the country: he uses it as an opportunity to write about pop and outrage, and the history of pop being offensive. This is how we talk about offensiveness now: a light, jad[…]

Dancer In The Dark: nylpm doesn’t often do film reviews – but my usual review home is dead at the moment. Anyway Dancer In The Dark is a musical, and it does star a pop personage. It is also absolutely ridiculous – a fact which cert[…]

The Focus Group is Go. If you expected a focus group invite and haven’t got it, it’s because:
i) I didn’t know you wanted one. E-Mail Me if you do.
ii) I’ve got your e-mail wrong. See above.
iii) I drink with you and you&#8217[…]

Napster in Bertelsmann deal: inevitably.[…]