None more twee.[…]

SEVENTH SEAL OPENS (slight return) with the news that the three recently-estranged members of Bis have bowed to the inevitable and are back together in the form of a new band, Data Panik.
Inevitable in the sense that no doubt one day the world will e[…]

KITCHEN SCIENCE
What happens when you cook a garlic and coriander naan bread for eight hours.
a) It goes very very black, and very very hard but does not produce much smoke.
b) You lose all respect from your flatmates who ask you never to cook when y[…]

The Physics Detective Part Six — Dubois Spills the Beans
It was looking like a nondescript installment of The Physics Detective until Dubois — out of nowhere — dropped a bombshell. From the intercepted quantum email:
I think you sho[…]

four art shows
I was nearly put off writing this by Tim’s superior piece below, but as I saw these today, I’d like to mention them. Order of my attendance rather than preference…
Mark Tobey at Robert Sandelson
Tobey’s work kin[…]

Guy Cannon–You Didnt Even Know My Name.
A still born fetus sings his own elegy to his grieving parents, reassuring them that everything will be ok.
Its weirder then it seems.[…]

One More Time!
It’s the final Club Freaky Trigger tomorrow (before our glorious rebirth as Poptimism), and the big question is…
What should our last EVER song be?
Schnappi? Daft Punk? Where’s Me Jumper? Something completely differen[…]

Day 23: Saturn V
AROUND THE WORLD IN 80 LOUSY TUNES
A pallet in the back yard of a boathouse is not the worst place I have ever slept (that would be Wembley Arena during a Van Morrison concert) but it was pretty uncomfortable. I was up fresh in the m[…]

A great piece on football and community by David Conn in today’s graun (hidden away in the Society bit). Good quotage (near the bottom) too in an accompanying piece. Interestingly the pictures used to illustrate the article (in the actual pap[…]

Just a Bild of fun
Awful rubbish from Bild notable for the ‘sexologist’s rather sly claim:
According to German newspaper Bild sexologist Piero Lorenzoni said: “A woman’s breasts denote a woman’s character, just like her […]