I was recommended this by Luna of ILX, and when I started reading I feared it was going to be unbearable: right from the start, the very first sentence, the fact that he is trying to write as exactly like Wodehouse as he can is very overt. This is a […]

Bikstok Røgsystem – ‘Cigar’

One of the great things about visiting other countries: lying in bed in the hotel room after midnight (in this instance I was in Stockholm) flicking through the selection of free cable channels on the […]

“In the lands of the North…
… where the Black Rocks stand guard against the cold sea, in the dark night that is very long the Men of the Northlands sit by their great log fires and they tell a tale…”
(haha the Top 100 […]

what is it goin to BEEEEE??
my office overlooks a building being newly builded: this is v.interesting over an above the excitement of watching others toil while you loll: today they installed a strange narrow slender balcony out from one of the high[…]

Thanks to Nick for bringing this to our attention. Wang’s course of action in the final paragraph strikes me as foolhardy.[…]

STEAMED SPINACH!!
the atommick brane reminded me of steamed spinach: here is my question about it:
steam it for 3 minute = half the original size steam it for 6 mins = quarter the original size steam it for 9 mins = eighth the original size
so if[…]

“the WORMS of the AIR!!”
(i heart bestiaries – even THIS one which has a v.v.pompous-ass cease-and-desist death-to-antirockist-scholarship policy abt picture-linking)[…]

stick with the beasts we got plz #2: the CATOBLEPAS

Body of a buffalo, head of a hog, gaze and/or breath deadly, weeps constantly: Pliny the Elder said it wz sluggish, its head so heavy it cannot lift it from the ground. Desperate explanationists s[…]

POPNOSE MP3 OF THE WEEK
4. Smiley Culture – “Nuclear Weapon”
Smiley Culture’s mix of sunshine tunes and fast, funny toasting hit big in ’84 or so with the fantastic “Police Officer”. His Hold Your Tongue albu[…]