Looking through the old FT backups for lost material I came across the links list I made in 2000 when I ended Blue Lines. I’d thought it would be a good idea to run the links list as a personal history essay, so presented them in more or less c[…]

9. The Orb – Assassin
Another brilliant transition takes us from Anita’s dying echoes (“Don’t be afraid, it’s just the magic friend, friend, friend, friend…“) into a track that could be its polar opposite. ([…]

Yes yes there is an obvious answer to the question but the specific phenomenon of all the big Christmas hits (and Andy Williams) getting back into the Top 40 still bears closer examination. For instance, why is Mariah Carey’s “All I Want […]

There is a moment when critics unleash their wrath on a particular film which is akin to bear baiting. Except often the film is not the cinematic equivalent of a bear, and the lashing is completely justified. Two films have been savaged by critics th[…]

Delicious, usually sweet and well photographed foods can be found on this US bakinblog. They earn a link to food science for their Experiments in deliciousness: Bacon chocolate chip cookies with maple cinnamon glaze. OH YES[…]

this is perfect for winter, nice and easy (a variant on all-purpose fish stew)
YOU WILL NEED
chicken <– deboned if lazy, and chopped small with scissors, or else with a CHOPPER
sausages <– any cheap type will do; last night was lamb[…]

Something I’ve been meaning to do for ages now is restore some of the “lost” content of FT – essays, old blogs and writing experiments like Blue Lines and A Loafer’s Discourse – to the main site. This post indexes […]

<—- clearly this contraption will work
click to see why this one won’t —->bucketworld
key:
RSMB = residential mortgage-backed securities
CDO = collateralised debt obligations
transparency = the contraption has it (you can see […]

Song 4 Kylie / I’m In Love (With A Girl In A Time Machine) – Fast Ood Rockers
The One – Kylie Minogue
This Is Our Time – Ocelot Mthfckrs
Into the Galaxy – Midnight Juggernauts
Go Dumb – Da Muzicianz
Outta My Head &[…]

“What a happiness this must have been seventy or eighty years ago and upwards, to those chosen few who had the good luck to be born on the eve of this festival of all festivals; when the whole earth was so overrun with ghosts, boggles, Bloody Bones[…]