JUST POPPED OUT TO TOP UP THE METER
The scene:
Goose Island brewpub on Clybourn, in Chicago’s “bustling” (if by that you mean ‘full of yuppies buying organic’) Lincoln Park neighbourhood.
The mood:
not entirely subdued, […]

From George Melly, Revolt Into Style
(1962)
“Band followed band from 9.30 PM until 7.30 AM the next morning. The audience were dressed almost without exception in ‘rave gear’. As the essence of ‘rave gear’ is a stylised […]

The like that dare not speak it’s name

There are worse players who have played for England and Manchester United than Phil Neville, and better ones too. But he seems to me to be singled out as he forms several functions.
He’s the archety[…]

Remarkable discovery: we’re DJing my work company party in a couple of weeks and being paid for the privilege. Should be a good night, expecially as I have just discovered that one of our new Group Client Directors (i.e. bigwigs) used
to
be
in
[…]

There is little point in linking this HA HA – ART IS RUBBISH story on the BBC website, except for the fact that it appears that house style has been driven to extremes. The actual story itself is a classic Philstinian piece about dustmen being […]

THE FT TOP 100 SONGS
94. Al Green – “How Can You Mend A Broken Heart?”
Martin Skidmore, who nominated this song, has written exhaustively and excellently on it for us here. I don’t have anything to add except a heartfelt cry o[…]

wive$watch (us style):
it still all seems a bit slow and so-what BUT this is a secret-history dimension i like: eg that the true hidden stars are the munster manse, the leave-it-to-beaver home &c. &c.[…]

JURASSIC DUCK (from memory, since i can’t find any links on the net)
i. METRO’s headline wz the um possibly taxonomically imprecise “Tyrannosaurus Quacks” ii. the fossil beast in question was a small dinosaur, w.feathers, st[…]

Sideways
I went to my first movie preview tonight. My pal Andrew got me in on a screening of Alexander Payne’s new movie – we’d both loved the last two he made, so were looking forward to this. I’d read an ILE thread about it,[…]

Avenging the Avengers
On Saturday I decided to watch The Avengers movie on Channel 5, the first time I’d seen it since it came out back in 1998 and in complete defiance of the general critical opinion that it’s The Worst Movie Ever Made A[…]