On the one hand I think if you’re going to advertise a pub quiz then you should have the bloody pub quiz and not call it off because too few people have turned up, on the other I can see that pubs are businesses first and they’re not goin[…]

It was a documentary called “In Search of Atlantis” and it was on Channel 5, and if I say, Yes but look, it featured Alexander Nehamas as a talking head!!, you might still probably insist I was being ironic and a faux populist re my C5 do[…]

This is an excellent little article about pub quizzes, from the quizmaster’s perspective. I came with my bristles up, expecting to find all sorts of quiz snobbery on show, but no, the author seems fair-minded and has wise things to say about al[…]

A cover so humble that it’s almost just a mix, but glued to my playlist anyway. I don’t know what people were expecting from this – self-reference? snare rushes? sex? – but what they’re getting is a faithful version, with a litt[…]

Helvetica vs Arial a tiny shockwave game for the hardcore typographer. Helvetica, the original sans-serif, has for too long been losing out to the classic pincer action of a younger, trendier, Meta coming in from above and the lousier, cheaper, Arial[…]

The South is doing wonders for the poetry scene in, well, the South, sticking its neck out to promote our writers and take on the projects everyone wants to do but somehow never gets to round to… unique events like tonight’s reading help […]

The Neptunes Present… Clones
Let’s get the bad bit out of the way immediately. What is this Spymob/High Speed Scene pair of tracks in the middle of the album? Tedious rock tracks that are utterly out of keeping and not obviously linked in[…]

Three more interesting things about the Black Bull:
ONE: it’s that rare treat, a reverse TARDIS pub. It looks like it’ll be some vast wasteland of tables and chairs and misery from the mock-Tudor exterior but it turns out to be a comfort[…]

The Black Bull in Whitechapel is a nice enough, rough and tumble kind of boozer, and despite what FAP says, they had a corking beer from suffolk (Nethergate’s Augustinian) on last nite. i only frequent this pub when we’re on our way to […]

Sleepy and tired are two different things, and the former can be quite nice on occasion, when you give your body the chance to just settle. A couple of moments in a day to do nothing, just think yourself a perfect blank, can be wonderful.
Depictions […]