I Love Comics: look! see! A tiny seedling board! Will it thrive and grow or be crushed under time’s callous heel? I am mostly posting the link because I want Vic Fluro to post there.[…]

Rewatching The Return of the King with Dr Vick, we both found ourselves wincing and hiding our eyes plenty of times during the Battle of the Pellenor Fields. OK, so self-appointed hardnut intellectuals = mimpy underneath the pose shock horror newsfla[…]

Two new Mark Wallinger films, currently showing at the Anthony Reynolds Gallery on Gt Marlborough St, should be the cause of much celebration. If they had anything like the effect on me that ‘The One With The Slowed Down Airport Departure Loung[…]

Raisin Hell: only last weekend I found myself talking with an American friend about the differences in quality and style between curries bought in the UK and those from the US. One of the dishes she liked about her favourite Stateside curry emporium […]

The same dish – elsewhere. I was at the cinema (quelle surprise) on Saturday and fancied a bite before I drifted off to the pub. A walk past Miso, on Haymarket, garnered the fact that they did a dish called Malaysian Chicken Curry and Rice. For[…]

Polemic from yesterday’s Guardian by a certain Steve Grand. Is this the same guy that worked on Creatures ‘ the A-Life game that I still haven’t seen.
Bonus A-life link: Stanislaw Lem’s Non Serviam ‘ a great story in a f[…]

You’ll have to forgive me for being in a rigidly literal frame of mind, but when I hear cab dispatcher Ben Gibbard offer this couplet to the kids of America:
‘So this is the new year / And I don’t feel any different’
‘ I[…]

Scientists have found a new form of matter. Marvellous! What? Bose-Einstein condensate what? I thought there were only solid liquid gas and plasma. They’re busy at it aren’t they those scientists?[…]

Footballers Wive$ back on your ITV screens Wednesday 11 February. Can’t wait? Then try Footballers Wive$ fan fiction! (So I don’t have to).[…]

Pop Life Blog: lots of very good stuff here! Derek was it you who works at a certain West-Central London second-hand chain and wrote to FT a while ago? If so I am very very sorry for not replying, no excuses, I am just rubbish with email. Anyway read[…]