In case you aren’t watching the Rugby World Cup (and fair enough) I thought you would nonetheless like to know that Ireland’s bald and not-cute hooker (equivalent for US readers: there isn’t one) Keith Wood glories in the nickname T[…]

Ain’t Got No Frogs…
There’s a new road safety ad telling you to wear something bright at night. This isn’t terribly interesting in itself, but the jingle is sung to the tune of one of the greatest really obscure records ever: […]

Even if you’re a sports fan you may never have heard of Mildred Didrikson-Zaharias. Here is why she was the greatest athlete of all time.
She was born in Texas in 1914. At 16 she led her basketball team to three national titles. In the 1932 nat[…]

(Sistrah Becky just suggested TIME AND TIDE must be part of the Brighton Photographic Biennial, but it doesn’t seem to be mentioned anywhere on the website)[…]

On Brighton sea front, just by the burnt-out wreck of the West Pier, there’s a photography exhibition. It’s actually ON the front: each picture, in its frame, is attached to the railings of the esplanade as you look out to sea. It’s[…]

Last Night Andrew WK Saved My Life
There was something about Andrew WK’s sincerity last night at the show in Brooklyn that made even the most jaded, ironic CMJ-badgified hipster drop the pretense for a moment, pump his fist in the air and jump […]

APPLE CRISPS 2! Or more accurately: Apple flavoured crisps.
The M&S crisp range has recently undergone an overhaul and in doing so has broken the cardinal rule of crisp packet design: different flavour = different coloured packet. I’d not[…]

Jesus – struck by lightning – God dropping hints. If anything it mught just be that God, like the rest of us, is already bored with Mel Gibsons version of the Passion, with its po-face Latin and Aramaic script and its dedication to repres[…]

Barefoot Cheek in the Barefoot Doctor’s face
This was mentioned in Private Eye and has just been linked in NTK too. It’s an open forum of questions for the Observer’s whacky columnist. Quote: “i poetically call myself a barefo[…]

A Reader’s Life: straightforward and cleanly designed weblog detailing an individual’s reading, with commentary. Noted in passing on my way to writing another Blog entry, so I have no idea how good the site is, but I like the idea.[…]