THE ADVENT CALENDAR OF ALCOHOL – 8th December (7%-8%): Guinness Foreign Extra Stout
I have been a fan of Guinness pretty much since I’ve been drinking. In the mid ’80s it had yet to achieve the kind of dominance it has now, and it w[…]

I am not sure if I have ever seen a film as inconsequential as Master And Commander: The Far Side Of The World. I have certainly never seen a film as inconsequential with such a long title. At the start of the film we are told that it is some time du[…]

An experiment to detect the effects of using girly moisturiser on a man’s face
Diagram and Apparatus
MethodI will be applying girly moisturiser to ONE HALF OF MY FACE. Which half (left/right) is only known to 2 people. I have devised a proper d[…]

Bookslut: Less racy than the name suggests, a good book-centric blog, strong on links.[…]

THE ADVENT CALENDAR OF ALCOHOL – 7th December (6%- 7%): Brothers’ Bar Perry
Every kind of intoxicant is for sale illegally or legally at the Glastonbury Festival. The three day home of hippies is the place to get off your tits on speed, […]

THE ADVENT CALENDAR OF ALCOHOL – 6th December (5%-6%): Ayingerbrau Prinz
The Fat Man. The Jolly German. David Blaine. Just some of the names for that most famous native of the Bavarian Alps, Ayingerbrau lager. Ayingerbrau is an unusual brand fo[…]

Omigod it can’t be it is it’s ___________!!! On the C4 doc just now finishing abt some WW2 commando raid, complete with mined ship smashing into a German dry-dock in the Loire, the old fellow with a slightly florid nose was naggingly fami[…]

Searle’s gone and done it again. Finding little or nothing to criticize in the two concurrent Bill Viola shows in London (the Haunch of Venison one is over now, I think), Adrian Searle decides to lay into the critical texts around the work (the[…]

I fear that my new favourite drink, Pepsi Twist, is not long for these shores. A full fat version of the puritanical and chemistry set tasting Diet Coke with Lemon, Pepsi Twist has not been given a huge marketing push in the UK. But it has the balanc[…]

Interstella 5555: The 5tory Of The 5ecret 5tar 5ystem. Look the letter S looks a bit like the number five. A bit like the letter V looked nothing like the number 7 in Se7en. (A friend who works in publishing told me how much that little slight of han[…]