Every time I listen to Will Oldham these days I have a little less pleasure. I don’t know who said it first, but there was a long discussion of him as class tourism and mobility, and fake authentic, and how all of this was a very bad thing. Ho[…]

Well, my extensive research. Which included chatting to three whole people at the bar, and peering over at the booking sheets to check the phone codes I can reveal that the mysterious pub goers come from all over the shop. One Liverpudlian and one Pr[…]

Brahma beer. That’s what they want us to drink. How will they get us to drink it? Make it cheap in the off licence. Advertise the hell out of it (just wait til the New Year). Stock the club back bars with it relenetlessly. It’s sexy, it’s Brazi[…]

… but this made me larf (it reminded me of me and ethanon AIM!)
(in PBS bcz of technology like)[…]

Or Numb3rs (yes, that is how its spelt, I am not just googleproofing cos I am going to insult it). Where CSI has our talented professionals solving crime using forensic science, the heroes of Numb3rs use maths instead. Where CSI has Jerry Bruckheimer[…]

Patrick Fitzgerald, whizzkid prosecutor about to blow apart the Bush Administration (or possibly not), used to play rugby[…]

i’m not a huge fan of james wolcott’s writing — about music, film OR more recently politics — and plus i STILL haven’t read rip it up (or finished benW’s notorious review!), but this handy rave, which then actually[…]

http://b3ta.com/features/howtopoachanegg follows the modern way of cooking. Google the recipe/method and try out the top hits. Now I don’t recall ever having poaching an egg, but I recall the “vortex” method – possibly because[…]

In his excellent book about stage magic, Hiding The Elephant, Jim Steinmeyer touches on an important question – to what extent should magicians pretend that they actually have magical powers? Very few magicians are straightforward in their arti[…]

This didn’t make the FT list of unexplained phenomena on the spurious grounds that it is easily explained. THIS IS NONSENSE. Rarely will you get a scientist to explain it, they will try to fob you off saying that it just does not exist – […]