Sweet Cred[…]

Those wacky Middle Agers!!:
“WARNING: Do not attempt to recreate this recipe, as lime is highly caustic and potentially dangerous; it should never be used in cooking.”
(Ingredient availability permitting – haha peacock unlikely &#[…]

The Science of the Cookery of Animals Which Don’t Exist #1: The Cockentrice

(I’m still trying to track down net sources on a really interesting piece I read in Scientific American some years back, about medieval theories of food and nu[…]

wolfgang tillmans–for when i am week i’m strong.
his photographs seem almost accidental, i have this catalog beside me from a mid90s show at Kunstmusuem in Wohlberg, and when i try to explain the photos they seem so ordinary. But they mo[…]

A Weekend Out

Tokyo Story
The 50s Tokyo = 30s America theme extends to the pastoral music, all strings and harps. I hadn’t thought about the harp as such a classic “domestic bliss” signifier, but that it is.
Lost in Translation
Bil[…]

Even More Ambushed By Unexpected Emotion #???: I didn’t listen to the Buffy musical that much since I wrote this, and I was only relistening for actual real work reasons. A lot more of it than I would have predicted snagged at something inside […]

Don Quixote and Picasso
Not many people I know have read Don Quixote. At least not all of it. Or even any of it. The thousand odd pages of dense text can appear rather daunting. It’s also a novel with an odd structure and the second half tips a[…]

Wales are trying to get to Euro 2004 through the back door, after a doping scandal in the Russia team. They want the 0-0 draw in the first leg replaced with a 3-0 victory for them. What I don’t understand is where this scoreline was plucked fro[…]

KISS AMC – “A Bit Of U2”
UK pop-rap crossover from 1989 which goes straight for the obvious-bone and pastes great wodges of “New Year’s Day” into tumbling raps. Kiss AMC had family connections to Ruthless Rap Assas[…]

Shout out to our foreign reader(s)! Is that Korean? ON WITH THE SHOW!!
I love Judge John Deed. Don’t you know what it is? It’s a courtoom CRIME DRAMA on the BBC. That, along with the repeats of Room 101 with Jonny Vegas are worth the lice[…]