Impromptu Art sighting. The time: 11:35pm. The date 14/10/03. The place: The pavement outside the Virgin megastore exit of Tottenham Court Road tube station. Observed three fake leopardskin furry paving slabs, three dalmatian furry paving slabs, in a[…]

Celery lovers unite BUT DO NOT DRAG ME DOWN WITH YOU! Far better than rubbish stinky celery is celery ROOT, i.e, CELERIAC!! Now it’s root vegetable season again and we have a functioning oven I’m expecting lots of turnips, taters and inde[…]

The problem with writing about a film about spelling, is that the very act of writing removes the difficulty of words the suspense rests upon. Spellbound is a terrific film, and oddly makes a great double bill with Kill Bill, but it is difficult to w[…]

All this talk of chanting has made me think of the best songs I’ve heard on the terraces and what makes a good terrace song. My particular favourite is that sung by Sheffield United to the tune of Annie’s Song by John Denver:
You fill u[…]

Just a short note on Tim’s piece below. Whenever I have heard a crowd singing “Are you England In Disguise” I have always taken it to mean that the team seem to survive on a sliver of desperation, a bit of luck and rather boring foo[…]

If you didn’t know already, and you could be forgiven if you didn’t, Mari Cha IV is now the fastest monohull in the world, having crossed the Atlantic in 6 days, 17 hours, 52 minutes and 39 seconds, beating the existing transatlantic reco[…]

Scientists discover what the rest of the world has known for ages: rejection HURTS[…]

Transatlantic celery mindmeld!! It’s been unusually sunny and warm over the past few days in New York City, but today it was a little colder and autumn-y and I thought, ‘I should make soup!’ I made a beautiful vegetable stock to us[…]

Louis Armstrong – Hot Fives And Sevens
Tom has talked about the difficulty of switching from modern pop to ’50s #1s for his magnificent Popular project, but I just went from Disco Inferno (the interesting and sometimes impressive indie ba[…]

In a game between Manchester United and England, at the moment, Man U would probably win, although it seems according to the Observer that the interesting action would be in the fighting beforehand.
I know that if I had heard MU fans singing &#8220[…]