Little Georgia, Broadway Market, London E8
I don’t think I’m offending anyone but the Georgians when I say their country is a backwater. Googling Famous Georgians returns ten pages of US history before a single mention of its European cou[…]

Menus intended to be read #193875: I was actually really tired on mon eve, so a. made bad food choices at sistrah becky’s b’day meal at Cafe Spice Namaste (vindalho de porco: too hot and too chewy for my taste), and b. forgot to read the […]

1: Computers still use punched cards.
A collorary to this that no matter how far in the future and how intelligent said computers get, they still seem to whirr and make strange noises. Often they will still have much tape involved. This has its repre[…]

Scenes from My Life as a Bad Teacher: it’s 20 years ago now so don’t expect names. I taught one-on-one for three years, at a place which didn’t mind if the kids failed their exams cz the mums and dads were rich, and just sent them b[…]

DISCO! – “Help Dr Groove to manage a disco emporium by finishing given challenges. Hire top DJs, upgrade sound systems and lightings, organise events, turn your disco into the top choice for Friday night in town.” Dr. Groove! And we[…]

What perturbed us the most when we had our Kettle Chips crisis at the weekend was the outrageous specificty of the flavour claims. Not a huge problem when they claim the slight tang is say Salsa with Mesquite, but a who different kettle of (ahem) chi[…]

Cheer Up Matt!: my off-the-cuff definition wasn’t meant to exclude anybody from anything, it was just a marketing thing really. I might as well have said that everything with a distribution deal creates an ‘imagined community’ (and […]

Thirty years ago the most commonly found sort of restaurant here in Northeastern Mississippi was the catfish and steak house. A half-dozen in every county, all pretty much identical right down to the menu: burgers and fried shrimp for the kids, four […]

Is it also a school of Rockism? There was always going to be that difficult moment in the film where Jack Black introduces the kids to his pride and joy, RAWK MUSIC. What music do the kids like already? Difficult moment.
Christina Aguleira? Bad momen[…]

The Grifters – Jim Thompson
Thompson understands tragedy. He understands that sometimes entertainment should hurt, should annoy. That truth, for a cynical world, lies in cruelty rather than the easy fix of happy ever after. Why is happy ever af[…]