Fruit machines had crossed my mind, of course, both as a way of passing the time till mates turn up and as a way of paying for the drinks when they do. The problem being that it’s not easy to stand at a fruit machine and keep close guard on the[…]

THE TEN SMUGGEST MEN IN ROCK
My apologies, faithful readers, for this interruption but it’s come to my attention that new people may actually be visiting, and perhaps a list of fictional songs by They Might Be Giants is not the best possible we[…]

I’ve had the best of times and the worst of times playing pub loner. Well no, not actually the best of times, sitting by yourself in a pub is still sitting by yourself in a pub. Nobody will disturb you if you are reading comics, is the main thi[…]

(You know, four days in – that title is starting to look a bit wieldy).
Written, on a slow day even for the genii which TMBG are. The two John’s were sitting in the They Might Be Giants Cave (actually a pokey rented office space shared wi[…]

More solo pub talk. I am tempted to suggest that the person who reads a book in the gentle afternoon of a quiet pub is a generous soul, happy to pass the time in a public space with the ebb and flow of humanity around them (otherwise they’d hav[…]

If you are in a pub on your own, don’t be tempted to pass the time on a quiz machine. It’s far too likely that someone will come up to you and try to “help”, or worse, just watch the screen annoyingly over your shoulder.
On t[…]

Rock dinosaurs eh? This is a most amusing piece regarding the naming of a dinosaur after 80’s legend and noughties binman (probably) Mark Knopfler. Rightly so, the BBC have used as many cliches as possible in their reporting of it. Nevertheles[…]

Glad to see the issue of what to do in the pub on your own raised here. In my younger, more bashful days I would refuse to enter a pub and wait for my friends on my own but now I am usually so desperate for a drink that there’s no holding me. A[…]

Is this a challenge? I throw it open to my publog companions.[…]

POP-EYE 21/1/2001
Of course Limp Bizkit don’t matter. Fifteen-year-old boys like what fifteen-year-old boys always have and always will: shouting plus snot plus noise. Some of the best music ever has been made that way and some of the worst has[…]