Very unpleasant. Also in the pub last night the glaring flaw in this rhyme was once again dredged up viz. why, casting around for the natural enemy of a dog, does the old woman settle on a horse?
Unless she just likes horse, of course.[…]

No, really…[…]

Ocean’s 12 is a soundtrack in search of a movie. No, scratch that. It is one of those soundtracks to imaginary films made by bands like The Cinematic Orchestra which somehow has stumbled across a film that kind of fits it. WHatever, David Holme[…]

Last chance to play over at the high-tension finale to Troubled Diva’s “Which decade is tops for pops?” poll.[…]

My chair shame.
Until last night it had been a while since I broke a chair. Having destroyed seating in Pete’s flat and two separate gites I should have realised my chair-breaking days were not behind me.
Last night I felt the chair go a while […]

As well as being sources of comfort and food for man, animals are also an endless source of wacky news stories. Only yesterday there was a story about a gorilla signing at women keepers to show him their breasts, and today brings us Snake eats own ta[…]

The Retro Bar Pop Quiz!
Everyone loves the Retro Bar Pop Quiz, I always wonder why I don’t go there more. Anyway Alan suggested it and there was a groundswell of pro-quiz feeling which led to not one, but two FT-related teams locked in a privat[…]

THE FT TOP 100 SONGS
87. Roxy Music – “Virginia Plain”
Here’s a parlour game: take a famous debut single and imagine what you’d think of it if that act had released nothing else, ever. Roxy Music’s arch travelogue […]

Bit Of Fun Watch has a surprising detour via Proven By Science and our old favourite (though we never go there) The Dana Centre. NExt week on the 10th they have an evening lecture entitled: BINGE DRINKING: Epidemic or Bit Of Fun. The Dana Centre is a[…]

The current trend in the magazine publishing world is taking monthly formats and turning them into weeklies. After the men’s weeklies Nuts and Zoo have decimated the monthly lad mag market, the fashion/women’s monthly was the next target.[…]