Dave Q conquers the world, part 4154145 — in which quite probably the Greatest Living Critic has his say about one Metallica and a recent movie of theirs. The tears of laughter are still rolling down my face.[…]

It was actually the head and upper chest they saved — the ridiculous joy of They Saved Hitler’s Brain isn’t just the title, of course, but damned if that doesn’t have a lot to do with it. It’s a perfect time-killer movi[…]

“If you wish to see your son thoroughly depraved, send him to a Judge and Jury Club”: forgotten menace of bygone London! The Victorian London site as ever illustrates but does not interpret: as far as I can tell the notion was a drinking […]

last python alive
i can’t really tell if terry jones’s constant reversion to his old shtick in terry jones’s medieval lives is i. tactical, ii. just kneejerk, or iii. semi-sheepish.
you can hardly accuse jones of dumbing down or s[…]

A History Of Beer Commercials:
Enjoyable article, wish there was a UK equivalent. I particularly liked this story:
Among the earliest, and certainly one of the most successful, ID characters put to work on television for a brewery was “Mabel,&#[…]

“and if the devil doesn’t like it he can sit on a tack!”
“Even before Family Christian started selling its karaoke music line, its store in Augusta, Ga., was holding monthly karaoke nights that really weren’t karaoke ni[…]

The only living American boy in New Cross (not necessarily true) — as I mentioned yesterday, I had reason to be in New Cross for two of my London trips, and while I can’t say I got to know the entire area or anything like that, for me, fo[…]

A LONDON SONGBOOK
SHAM 69 – “Red London (Live)”: Did you know that in their first ever review Julie Burchill wrote “Sham 69 play rock’n’roll in the manner that American negroes fight, not for fun but for existence&[…]

X-Seed 4000: Some great browsing at this buildings site – this is the tallest building in their ‘vision’ section for structures which are never likely to be built. It seems somewhat arbitrary to say that the X-Seed is the tallest bu[…]

Fireworks
To celebrate the 50th birthday of CERN a firework display was held telling the story of the universe. It included a big bang (obviously), inflation, fundamental forces, matter, stars and planets. According to Rolf Landau, who helped design […]