It’s very bad form to accuse athletes of cheating, I’m sure. In the comments box here your TMFD correspondents do just that. Turns out we were right. It does beg the question of how she ever thought she was going to get away with that kin[…]

Olympic watch
I saw my first proper bit of the Olympics last night. One thought amongst many is that I like the olive wreaths they give to medallists. We’re getting that ancient vibe (I hesitate to say ‘feel’ too with many atheletes[…]

We won the Rowing Gold Medals on the seas of Trafalgar
I was quite chuffed with the gold-medal for the coxless fours. I like the olympics because they show the basic spirit of sport is competitiveness, and despite our liking for some more than others[…]

“Sometimes it is beautiful for the competitiveness, the spirit and the organisation”
Jose Mourinho, quoted in David Lacey’s piece in yesterday’s Guardian which is a pretty good refutation of all things fannydangle.[…]

Some Quick Notes on Cheap Surrealism
Just got home from seeing Anchorman with my brother Jeff, clearly the most surreal film of the decade so far, and that’s saying a lot, considering the stiff competition from Harold and Kumar Go to White Cast[…]

One of the best things about living in a capital city is your constant proximity to THE NEWS. Yes, sorry all you buggers in the provinces think the news is too London-centric, that’s because a lot of the news happens in London. And often you br[…]

Innovative, audacious, useful…unimaginative, cowardly, lazy…You could apply any or all of these adjectives to Channel 4’s new late night show Flipside, that consists of a bunch of K-listers (MTV dudes), pwned props (Victor Big Broth[…]

London Conclusions (thus far – 64 posts in 20 days)
London is expanding and vanishing at the same time. There is dogging in Green Park and strange characters in Epping Forest, Pete sort of designed a logo, rivers are fascinating (The Thames, Th[…]

Food Court London — as is unsurprisingly the case in this our world of everything and anything in one place at one time (if you have the money and access to the right location), there are about eight million restaurants in London that presumabl[…]

Olympic Avoidance Log
Triple Jump: Keeping up my strong middle section with a brief accidental flight of fancy on the Triple Jump. You see Triple Jump was one of the few sports that my games teachers groomed me for. Looking back it was a bit cynical,[…]