15 Pizza’s end prison siege. Considering there were 20 inmates, getting their demands down to 15 pizzas was probably the kind of job only the most skilled hostage negotiator could sort out. Unfortuantely the report does not say what Meal Deal t[…]

1: The name of John Cusack’s character in Grosse Point Blank.
I believe it was Lee and Herring’s Fist Of Fun (though it might be the Mary Whitehouse Experience Encyclopaedia) that made a long list of potential sitcoms with realistically b[…]

A post inspired by the sometimes unfortunate drinking ratio between good friends. I drink pretty slowly, truth be told. Other friends of mine are much faster. These ratios unfortunately, over the course of a short period of time, rarely break down in[…]

When I go to Berlin to perform
I only need a knapsack and these (points to arms)
And these (points to legs)
You don’t know me, or the possible effects of my words
You owe me fifty pounds
I have a passion I feel is degenerated by
Unwittingly bei[…]

Ryan Gander is pre-occupied with the perceived failure of Utopian Modernism. Gander’s childrens book The Boy Who Always Looked Up is an account of the final days of reviled Hungarian architect Erno Goldfinger, as told through the eyes of a you[…]

British Political Pop 1990-2005
This is the second of a pair of compilation CDs giving one potential outline of how British pop acts tackled politics. This CD looks at the post-Thatcher era, from 1990 onwards. This coincides with my own life as a vot[…]

Regular readers here will know that no one loves soul music more than I do, so I was looking forward to this new BBC documentary series. It has lots of great footage, much of it new to me, and interviews (mostly a bit obvious 90-second bites, but it&[…]

h’angus to wed!![…]

Javier Bardem was nominated for an Oscar for his role in Before Night Falls, another of those films that slipped by me in the cinema. Why did it slip by? Well it was a film about a writer, and they tend to be pretty unengaging. Writers, on the whole,[…]

as a (actually serious) follow-through to this post, here is what Baer says abt Galloway’s win, concluding “As [James] Forsythe [in the New Republic] goes on to explain, a Galloway win could spark a backlash against Muslims as: ‘It […]