Raisin Hell: only last weekend I found myself talking with an American friend about the differences in quality and style between curries bought in the UK and those from the US. One of the dishes she liked about her favourite Stateside curry emporium […]

The same dish – elsewhere. I was at the cinema (quelle surprise) on Saturday and fancied a bite before I drifted off to the pub. A walk past Miso, on Haymarket, garnered the fact that they did a dish called Malaysian Chicken Curry and Rice. For[…]

Polemic from yesterday’s Guardian by a certain Steve Grand. Is this the same guy that worked on Creatures ‘ the A-Life game that I still haven’t seen.
Bonus A-life link: Stanislaw Lem’s Non Serviam ‘ a great story in a f[…]

You’ll have to forgive me for being in a rigidly literal frame of mind, but when I hear cab dispatcher Ben Gibbard offer this couplet to the kids of America:
‘So this is the new year / And I don’t feel any different’
‘ I[…]

Scientists have found a new form of matter. Marvellous! What? Bose-Einstein condensate what? I thought there were only solid liquid gas and plasma. They’re busy at it aren’t they those scientists?[…]

Footballers Wive$ back on your ITV screens Wednesday 11 February. Can’t wait? Then try Footballers Wive$ fan fiction! (So I don’t have to).[…]

Pop Life Blog: lots of very good stuff here! Derek was it you who works at a certain West-Central London second-hand chain and wrote to FT a while ago? If so I am very very sorry for not replying, no excuses, I am just rubbish with email. Anyway read[…]

Last night for the first time in my life I had one of those going-out-without-trousers dreams, an absolutely standard part of the dream lexicon but one that had not troubled me. I can only put it down to all the discussion on critical authority that […]

Popnose: let’s try that again, shall we… (now with actual new tracks!)[…]

Pretty much as soon as the blizzard started (w/thunder and everything) one of our rabbits started going mental – she was darting about, bashing her hutch-mate and making the loudest growls I’ve ever heard from her, echoing snarling yelps […]