The Square Table Speaks, The World Listens (sort of)
A bit of the video for ‘Save A Horse, Ride A Cowboy’ was briefly aired on the news segment of CD:UK yesterday. Course, CD:UK’s track record at breaking North American artists isn&[…]

yes vicky is korrekt i totally forgot chitlins/chitterlings!!

(this site makes the good point that organmeat is increasingly considered poor pplz diet and demeaning maybe and harder and harder to find in non-sausage form)[…]

TO PROVE I AM A BALANCED FELLOW Bérubé – an academic w.a fairly good grasp of pop culture AND left politics – is often a little full of himself, but i think this compare/contrast of nader’s raiders and (us) clashfans works a stron[…]

ORGAN EATABILITY LEAGUE TABLE:
KIDNEYS = feted by joyce, annoyingly fiddly to prepare, unspoilable
SKIN = crackling!!
TONGUE = does anyone cook their own these days? you never see it on sale raw: cold tongue = called PRESSED tongue in the olden day[…]

Lawyers who cook.
When I was telling my girlfriend about Jeffrey Steingarten, she wasn’t at all surprised he’d been a lawyer before jumping into food writing: “Sure,” she said. “He had a lot of money and since you can […]

Go to bed, Mr Swygart
It’s bizarre what manner of shit the crap-telly-enthusiast can persuade themselves to stay up and watch, sometimes. Last night, for instance, it got to about quarter to two. I found myself sat in front of ever-dire cop ser[…]

FREAKY TRIGAN EMPIRE HELP ME W.MY HOMEWORK ok thx bye[…]

Mystery meat
 
So the other day I had tongue for lunch.  It was helpfully labelled ‘lunch tongue’ on the deli counter in Safeways, as opposed to the slightly larger variety also available, which one could presumably slice up for[…]

FT Top 100 Films
56: THE MUPPET CHRISTMAS CAROL
So if The Dark Crystal is The Muppet Movie without the laffs, what is this? The Muppet Movie with Michael Caine as Scrooge? Pretty much. It keeps in the laffs, but it is also a pretty straight adaptati[…]

Oh, they’re are a jolly band that there Metallica. There are plenty of stupid metal fans who saw Spinal Tap as a documentary, but only one band used it as a blueprint for a career. And Master Of Puppets is what you get if you have absolutely no[…]