SOUTH SEA BUBBLE METROPOLIS
Excellent materialist argument from Woebot: someone w.better econochops than me – is J. K. Galbraith still alive? more to the point, is he active on slsk? – shd write a piece on filesharing, share dealing, hard[…]

In the future, EVERY BLOG will be THIS famous* FOREVER
*(Fame = ppl you never knew carefully explain to other like folk every last meaningless private atom of stuff you wrote to you yrself alone)[…]

This is a frustrating thread. Mostly because the person who started it doesn’t seem to be listening to the people replying to him, but it’s also interesting how much “lady if you have to ask you’ll never know” stuff come[…]

Missy Elliot Pass the Duchie/ Britney Spears Me against the Music.
There are no humans in pop music anymore, it can be assembled out of elements that already exist, in this way the vocals seem to be vestigal, reminding that this is “pop music&[…]

The return of Black Books did a very neat thing. It reminded us of the relationship of the three characters by splitting them up. It also did a tremendous sight gag without ever having to show it. The plot was simple. While Fran was on holiday, Berna[…]

THE ICK FACTOR: confirmed
There were always two problems with my First Iron Law of Cinema, that “No Good Film Has Ever Been Made by Someone Whose Name Ends in the Letters I C K”: i: You had to do some fancy (not to say fraudulent) spellin[…]

The Marriage of Figaro, Hackney Empire
Whole cities have been built in the time it has taken to refurbish Hackney Empire. It has reopened to muted fanfare aware that a big gap in the outer brickwork doesn’t add to its aesthetic value. Inside, h[…]

HERBIE HANCOCK – Zippit
Imagine if you will that you are a jazz musician (horrible thought I know). You’ve played with the – ahem – greats such as Miles Davies, Canonball Adderly and Quickdraw McGraw. You have even survived th[…]

Lite Brite, Schmite Brite: At first, I thought sciencists were jonesing on a scatological gene-splicing tip – “And for our next trick, we will breed pigs with break away tails! And then cows with incisors! Sharks with opposable thumbs![…]

MEME OF THE MONTH: it could replace “Use Other Words Please”!!
(you have to read right to the last line – worth it I promise)
(well, unless you already came across it, it is a meme after all)[…]