Catherine Yass: Wall (Alison Jacques Gallery)
When I think of Catherine Yass I mainly think of that upside-down descent from the Canary Wharf clouds to the construction site ground, a piece I found slowly thrilling (from cloud-cuckooland to a false […]

That’s not the coolest opening sentence I’ve ever written. It’s a song that I loved, then hated with a passion and it now sits in limbo beyond like and dislike. What it does contain is all my childhood Christmas memories.
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RUB QUIZ MORE LIKE. Comments on the boorish, unfunny compere at the movie quiz in my local minor sleb hangout would be better suited to Pumpkin Publog, so I won’t make them here. But the content of the quiz itself is indicative of wider trends […]

THERE WERE GIANTS IN THE EARTH IN THOSE DAYS…
“1940: On September 22, actor David Niven, now serving as a Captain in the newly formed Commandos, was married to Miss Primula Rollo, grand-daughter of the Marquess of Downshire, whom he had[…]

As I settled down to watch the Incredibles I thought, “Hmm, I would really quite like a French poster of this film”. Why? Well the French world for Incredible, Incroyable, is probably my favourite Gallic word. It sounds like the English v[…]

The Advent Calendar Of Comics: Dec 2[…]

(Obviously compiling this list a few weeks before December means that true Christmas spirit had not settled in amongst the electorate. However one must imagine this is exactly the same problem that the TV schedulers have when programming Supergirl on[…]

Pub Science Experiment #1
Pub 3: The Railway Tavern, Commercial Road E14
Category: Railway
Ten or fifteen minutes’ walk from Globe Road is another Railway Tavern. The railway this one’s next to is of the Docklands Light variety (Limehouse[…]