The Question: Is it possible for a day which involves drinking in a Coopers station pub, The Griffin at Embankment, a pub in Sloane Square, a Rat And Parrot, a dodgy pub called The Sawyers Arms right next to Paddington, and a Firkin to still be a goo[…]

Never ceasing in our quest to find the world’s greatest pubs, Pete and I are off to the sunny Canaries to hunt down Top Tourist Trap Taverns. We go so you don’t have to.
Pete may suffer some form of withdrawal symptom from the pubs of (No[…]

let me be the first to say it: if you didn’t happen to notice that garish, that obtrusive and, yes, just a wee bit hopeless message to the right, today is tom ewing’s birthday. i first met him when he was my current age. scary.
a tom mome[…]

Thousand: well, here’s a turn up for the books.[…]

Hey, why bother creating a new one when I can say random stuff on this one every so often? ;-)[…]

Giant Tickle Feather (via Dan, who finally has his own weblog. Though he got it from our very own Ned. Who doesn’t.)[…]

You didn’t read your new prodigy’s page well enough, Tom — Gorillaz are specifically mentioned later as being praiseworthy.[…]

It’s Charlotte Gainsbourg, Sophie. And yes, her voice has surely improved since “Lemon Incest”.
Meanwhile this is the kind of writing I expect from my contributors from now on. You’re just not trying hard enough.[…]

Actually, Maura, you can view the whole ho-hum video here. Blah bling blah. Why am I supposed to care about this video? How is it controversial at all?
Ok, she liberates her granny, tazes a guy at an ATM, sasses some police officers, shoots them[…]

DESTINY’S CHILD – “SURVIVOR”
after selling millions of albums, landing number one singles, gracing magazine covers the world over, winning every award imaginable, and, very likely, earning a healthy living in the process, dest[…]