Somebody sent me an MP3 last week – that somebody being compu-pop band Komatrohn whose excellent records I have been very nice to in the past. The new track appears in my list of good (& bad) records at the sidebar – thankfully it is[…]

Kevin McCarra’s articles in The Guardian are normally good solid pieces of analysis, but he’s let himself down two paragraphs into this report where he says that Euro 2004 ‘is a tournament offering surprise and drama to compensate […]

FT Top 100 Films
72: FLIGHT OF THE NAVIGATOR
Shiny. My abiding memory of Flight Of The Navigator was how shiny the spaceship was. How little I knew that in the decade coming, everything would be shiny. From Terminators to old spaceships in the Star W[…]

“the color of television tuned to a dead channel”
pictures of cassini-huygen’s mission to saturn and titan[…]

The second goal for Portugal was positively Manichean.[…]

Club FT Dancefloor Test for the Rachel S and Girls A records saw the Girls emerge a clear winner – that synth intro rams you onto the floor whereas Richard X fannying about with his ‘scuzzed-up 80s’ preset is the perfect bargoing ex[…]

An in-depth, thoughtful, and ultimately wrong headed discussion on the lack of aging of characters in superhero comics. The article is based on the seeming paradox that Batman has been around for seventy odd years and yet has barely aged a jot.
Um. I[…]

Things I drunk at Glastonbury:
Wherry Bitter
Brothers Bar Perry
Carslberg Lager
Red Wine from a Wine Box
Hot chocolate with whiskey in (cheers Anna)
Strongbow (a Tom misorder)
Burrow Hill Cider
Rum and Orange punch (cheers Emma and Alan)
Calamacho (r[…]

HELLAS! There may have been eight million people dancing in Athens when Greece beat France, but on Telendos I’m guessing a few extra cocktails were the limit of festivities. The island has half a dozen tavernas, two or three of which boast TVs.[…]

Drinking Makes Bones Denser: this explains why Pete weighs fifteen stone.[…]