The Newton Arms, Holborn
What a difference an hour or two makes. Squeezing my way in to this pub on Friday at half six I was pretty sure it was the worst boozer I’d been to in a long time. With precious few tables (though a lot of stools) and a[…]

Site News: All the old articles should now be back, and also all the pictures, including the Ultimate Future Shock.
Also! I cornered our lovely host in the pub last night and said “I wish we could do MP3s again”. “Wellllll…..&[…]

The Physics Detective Part Three — Baumgarden Under the Gun
I believe Baumgarden’s story. He seems like the “smoke pot on weekends and sip scotch during late nights at the office” type, not the “I carry grudges against e[…]

My preferred spelling of ‘love,’ I think, because it sounds off, and therefore either soppy or stupid or fun or some combination of the same.
My emotional life is something I’ve kept more to myself over time, and I admit the regre[…]

The poetry of Dan Corbett.
The best weather forecaster on telly seems to be getting more of the BBC1 slots he deserves. These are just a few of the lines delivered in his compelling, reanimated-Bob-Monkhouse style at the end of yesterday’s lunc[…]

THE FT TOP 100 SONGS
89.5 Skeletal Family – “Promised Land”
The first of more than forty goth records in the top 100, this track was unanimously agreed upon by everyone at Freaky Trigger in some pub around Christmas. Two even sporte[…]

Day 19: The Block Party
AROUND THE WORLD IN 80 LOUSY TUNES
Ah the gleaming skyscrapers of Manhattan island. A beautiful, beautiful sight. That said, the bars on the ground floor of a lot of these edifices were the most beautiful thing, and as soon as[…]

Songmeanings.net
May well keep you occupied for hours. For example, an insight into “Fake Plastic Trees”:
“He’s saying they’ve made the Earth sp wso worldly it wears the (w)hole Earth out, him. Circumcision though not sa[…]

The previous post, summarised[…]

DJing The Office Party: what I learned.
i) Even rockists like “Love Machine” (when they’ve drunk their way through a five-figure bar tab) (I should have trusted Pete on this)
ii) Whatever the shortcomings of the Chemical Brothers as[…]