Hurrah! The Lady QCs took second place in the pub quiz and first place in the spiritual victory prize. Yes, last night there was a mob-handed takeover at the quiz, where our motley two groups of loons scooped first AND second prize. I felt a little g[…]

Pub Quiz Etiquette: A team with several publog regulars won a pub quiz last night. A team with several more publog regulars came second. Total swag – ’50 of drinks vouchers. But this morning it’s hard to feel too proud – the t[…]

Film titles which promise much but do not deliver. There is no point in Runaway Jury where the twelve just and true ones decide they have had enough of this tedious trial mularkey and scarper from the box. Nowhere dow we see them being persued by the[…]

Sweet Cred[…]

Those wacky Middle Agers!!:
“WARNING: Do not attempt to recreate this recipe, as lime is highly caustic and potentially dangerous; it should never be used in cooking.”
(Ingredient availability permitting – haha peacock unlikely &#[…]

The Science of the Cookery of Animals Which Don’t Exist #1: The Cockentrice

(I’m still trying to track down net sources on a really interesting piece I read in Scientific American some years back, about medieval theories of food and nu[…]

wolfgang tillmans–for when i am week i’m strong.
his photographs seem almost accidental, i have this catalog beside me from a mid90s show at Kunstmusuem in Wohlberg, and when i try to explain the photos they seem so ordinary. But they mo[…]

A Weekend Out

Tokyo Story
The 50s Tokyo = 30s America theme extends to the pastoral music, all strings and harps. I hadn’t thought about the harp as such a classic “domestic bliss” signifier, but that it is.
Lost in Translation
Bil[…]

Even More Ambushed By Unexpected Emotion #???: I didn’t listen to the Buffy musical that much since I wrote this, and I was only relistening for actual real work reasons. A lot more of it than I would have predicted snagged at something inside […]

Don Quixote and Picasso
Not many people I know have read Don Quixote. At least not all of it. Or even any of it. The thousand odd pages of dense text can appear rather daunting. It’s also a novel with an odd structure and the second half tips a[…]