I need say no more.
Your humble correspondent must point out that she merely photographed this Beast in Finsbury Park Tesco, has not and does not intend to consume said ‘beverage’, and is convinced even more so that things are very differ[…]

In 1997 I went up to Edinburgh to sample the Fringe. It was the year that the League of Gentlemen won the Perrier, and I saw their show. Matt Lucas was in the audience laughing his arse off, but i didn’t get much of a kick out of it. Mark Gatis[…]

Look at all the Sea Minerals!!!!
And no dandruff either![…]

i have an excellent coffee-table paperback from the late 70s called STRANGE PHENOMENA which has a cover decorated with falling fishes and tells many excellent tales eg of the French coalminers who dug a strange leathery bird out of a seam of living r[…]

There is a slight problem with the new Head & Shoulders advert. Their latest wheeze is Ocean Spa flavour smell fragrance (is that right?) “inspired by the sea” it says here, which features the now standard dandruff-free beautiful co[…]

The football match in Tom Brown’s Schooldays, slightly annoted by Wes Clark, but not in a useful way. Unfortuantely I cannot really pick out much in the way of fair play, or indeed rules in this game.
What is potentailly more important is the […]

Wherein your intrepid bar-room philosophers wondered if the acceptance of the Welfare State, and the success of a slightly softer socialism that ver hardkore Bolshevik Leninism in the UK was all really due to Tom Brown’s Schoolday’s. In a[…]

This month, Blog 7 is the BLOG OF THE STRANGE. We will present the Top 23 Strange Phenomena (to be decided on Friday), discourse upon HAUNTED PUBS and relate the myriad of ODD THINGS which have happened to us, or to people we know. Also Pete will mak[…]

What is the rockistest idea ever? Well, we have to acknowledge that MTV’s Unplugged notion set a good mark, but I think the Don’t Look Back series of gigs in London, which started with the Stooges at the Hammersmith Apollo last night, set[…]

The Political Cartoon Gallery scares me. Open for about a year now on Store Street, I am not quite sure how it stays open. Nevertheless if you ever want to be reminded that political cartoons aren’t funny, this is the place for you. It does see[…]