Scatology Alert
Japanese firm invent in toilet entertainment centre.
But hold: closer reading suggests that Toto Ltd’s Z Series Neorest offers the worlds first autofragrance and stereo music system. Okay so it my be more advances than my versio[…]

I expected M*A*S*H (the book) to be like a poor man’s Catch-22, and indeed it is. However that poor man will finish it a lot quicker, be able to read good, hearty, storyful chunks of it on the crapper AND be acquainted with the madness of war. […]

Day 22: Miami
AROUND THE WORLD IN 80 LOUSY TUNES
(Sorry for the delay: this Herculean outpouring required a Herculean actual pouring of gin. Fear not though dear reader as I expect another straight twenty days or so to be recounted over the next mont[…]

Head-On is the best film I have seen this calendar year*. Even if it is not the tale of some grumpy London music hater (who I understand is restarting her tale of her mammoth global circumnavigation via music hatred this afternoon). Instead it is one[…]

—there might be evil in the world, and human beings are destructive motherfuckers and there is not much we can do about that…But sometimes the dust settles, and even if it affects everything, even if it is in the dust and the air we breat[…]

“that now I do not like to think of maggots in his eyes”
hopkin greenfrog and i argued abt betjeman in the comments to this post, and tim asked “Did he ever liked anything modernist (art lit music architecture whatever)”? So […]

retrospective turner prize for the british empire at its implausible victorian height :
i. for lord cardigan for modellin the cardigan, after ii. leadin the charge of the light brigade right into the russian guns, then iii. decidin that hand-to-hand[…]

AVERAGE WATCH
Situations where the mean is useless. What do you think the average age of the a member of the audience to the Spongebob Squarepants movie is? Well, on yesterdays showing* I would say the average is about fifteen. However this average i[…]

Clear your sidebars. Via Troubled Diva (whose decades countdown is still going on and still well worth voting in), comes details of a blog by none other than THE REAL McCOY as in MC Sar and the Real McCoy, as in “Another Night”, as in mid[…]

Watchmen official site. Good grief, it might actually happen.[…]