Reading the list on Tom’s boardgame link to see how many I’d played down the years, I quickly found myself cheating: eg Dover Patrol is just a version of L’Attaque, so that counts as TWO etc. Then I started wondering, are there mayb[…]

Massive thumbs-up to Independance Records – the quickest online shop I think I’ve ever used, records ordered at half three yesterday and on the doorstep this morning with very reasonable postage. Highly recommended to those few readers wh[…]

Even though I study and eat Japanese, I’ve always wondered who managed to come up with the name POKARI SWEAT?!? Ridiculous yo![…]

Since curries are the flavah of da month (sigh…), I wanted to pitch in with my favourite curry dishes. I think one of the first food preparations I served my boyfriend was a completely faux curry from some Hawaiian cook book. It’s basical[…]

The United States government has boldly (ha ha) banned Courier New 12.
“In an internal memorandum distributed on Wednesday, the department declared “Courier New 12″ – the font and size decreed for US diplomatic documents for y[…]

In The Nipple Of The Storm: So what’s happened here is this –
– Janet Jackson gets her breast bared in the Super Bowl half time show.
– A horde of Interweb users immediately start searching for pics of said breast
– &#8[…]

I found this shop while looking for the rules to raffish customs-evasion card game Contraband! No such luck on that front but take a look at these gorgeous and highly evocative boardgame boxes. You might even want to buy one though an asking price of[…]

I am, in fact, convinced that the denizens of 119 Farringdon Road are having me trailed and turning all of my popular culture discussions with friends into articles. For a while the snide has been ripping stuff off ILX, but not 48 hours after I was […]

Once upon a time in the Philharmonic Dining Rooms, a glorious gin palace in Liverpool, I was using the grade-II listed Purbeck marble gents stalls. A bunch of American tourists, mostly women, some with camcorders, came in and started looking around. […]

Old news for some readers, but just in case you missed it linked elsewhere: tots on pop is failsafe entertainment, of course. Smell-a-rat moment: when Beth asks “Who’s Annie Key?” And I think Ben already writes for Uncut.[…]