Bah, despite going to the old Head of Steam (see publog, passim), the night after it re-opened, we have still be beaten to the first write-up by fancyapint. As Jack says, it’s a very benign make over, but i think it works well. They’ve t[…]

While shopping this past weekend my eyes were drawn to this book called “Pie”. Ready for the xmo buying season, the publishers have spent their publicity cash getting it in those prime places in the bookshop, and the book strikingly LOOKS[…]

“they taste like bacon”
(ok this story is irresistable obv BUT i. it only licked a reporter’s hand and ii. in taste terms as much as any, prosciutto is NOT actually bacon)
(also: the word prosciutto derives from the Latin perexsuc[…]

The story of the Moomins, visible within and between the frames of documentary Moomin Memories, is – most crudely – the story of a journey from the radical to the sentimental. The moomins begin visual life as marginalia in Tove Jansson&#8[…]

after two intro eps that were vanilla to the core — no one died and the SoN’s threats of tongue-cutting were camp gesture — RH shifts upsettingly up a gear or two: this is fun mid-evening hokum in which CHILDREN AND INNOCENTS CAN DI[…]

ilovemusicvideo
Another way to watch youtube music videos. If you are a last.fm user, you can use your top artists/tracks/etc lists which is nice[…]

AIM: To replicate the legendary LONG EGG, of GALA PIE fame
APPARATUS: many eggs (as per), tall pan, foil, cylindrical “formers”, knife, wooden skewer
INITIAL COMMENTS: the basic principle here is bound to be v close to the realactual meth[…]

So last night I had one of my strangest pub-going experiences in a very long time. A friend of mine had been booked into a last minute slot at an acoustical night at Camden Rock Café. “Where?” said I. I was sent a link which informed m[…]

According to The Time Out London, the Fifty Best Songs about London. For a list that celebrates the obscure and, well, tries to overdo its cool and hip quotient a bit too far, perhaps it is surprising that Ralph McTell’s “Streets Of Londo[…]

AIM: To replicate the legendary LONG EGG, of GALA PIE fame
APPARATUS: many eggs (as per usual)* — plus also beef gelatin, pan, disposable cylindrical container (i used the bottom half of an EVIAN bottle), kitchen scissors, kitchen knife
INITIAL[…]