Wordcount
(via Auspicious Fish)
This site has delayed me hugely today. I love its conceit. Here for instance is the word science proof of WHICH MUSIC IS BEST:
Rock – 1,511th
Metal – 2,185th
Dance – 2,293rd
Pop – 2,753rd (next […]

ON NAMING
back when Gibson’s Neuromancer wz just out, i recall my colleague d4vid qu4ntick getting into a strop abt the fact one of its characters is called “Quine”: he argued – he may be right – that the ONLY reason fo[…]

AVENGERS DAY AFTER
(ie: I was too busy to post this yesterday)
3: THUNDERBIRDS
Oh its easy to link the Thunderbirds movie with The Avengers movie. They are both inferior versions of a televsion classic, right? Wrong. As I posited here – a strai[…]

A charming idea, finely realised: untrue London stories.[…]

Pulp It
Bob Mizer is a good photographer, an interesting formal experimenter,a master at the boring, the sexual, the banal, the aspirational, thejoyous and the all American. He isn’t really a pornographer, though his work has mostly to do with […]