It’s fair to say that not many buyers of 1,000 UK Number Ones will be as eager as I was, with my not-entirely casual interest. Obviously, I was a little worried: not that I’m seriously planning a book or anything, but a literate, knowledg[…]

POPNOSE MP3 OF THE WEEK
2. T-RAPERZY – “Erodisco”
No, no, don’t tell me, you’re put off by the picture. I quite understand, really. I didn’t know these two gentlemen looked like that either until a few minutes ago[…]

yesterday I began a little process that is designed to show a dear friend how many people really care for said person. My friend in question needs the boost, to be frank. And what’s nice about all this? That so many of our mutual friends hav[…]

The Oscars might actually be worth watching:
At the annual Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences luncheon for nominees on Monday, Oscar telecast producer Gil Cates announced that this year’s broadcast would be as different from previous o[…]

Reflections on a Valentine’s-semi-themed dinner with friends:
1) Don’t actually make it a Valentine’s event and it’s *perfect*
2) Leave the only sign of the season to be an absolutely delicious heart-shaped chocolate cake bu[…]

FIVE POINTS
by Tyler Anbinder
New York City lore is something I know a bit of but couldn’t care much about otherwise — this is because I’m a horrible person, of course — but more to the point it’s generally alien to my e[…]

THE STEREOPHONICS
“Dakota”
Desperate but not serious. It is however extremely funny to realize they’re trying to break America all the more (except much-more-famous-than-the-Stereophonics-Kelly Kelly Clarkson seems to have trumped […]

HIDDEN LONDON #2: Bell Green, Catford
erm i don’t know much more about than that it exists – which i didn’t know even this morning – but on my way through it from bromley back to london bridge my TRAIN HIT A TREE!!
branches […]

ja tvoi rabotnik
“LEACHIM was a talking robot that didn’t move. He would ask the children questions and tell them if they had answered right or wrong. If they answered a very important question wrong, for example, about violence, LEACHIM[…]