“Budweiser has rice in it. So what? So do Asahi and Kirin of Japan, Bintang of Indonesia and Efes of Turkey, and nobody has such a hate on about them.” Daniel Davies at Crooked Timber wages poptimist war on beer snobbery…
UPDATE: bu[…]

Shane Meadows “This Is England” is an affecting portrait of skinhead life in the early eighties. Tied closely into the twin historical behemoths of the Falklands and mass unemployment, it manages to show both sides of the skinhead culture[…]

So the Guardian online: Guardian Unlimited has had a redesign. Not that surprising, the previous design did seem like a slight hangover from the three column era (the BBC are still sticking by that, but it can only be a matter of time: we ditched it […]

Take That – “Shine” – Score: 5.26 (7th) – Controversy: 3.08 (4th)
(Females: 4th. Males: 9th. Under 30s: 12th. Over 30s: 5th.)
Most like: Kaiser Chiefs. Most unlike: MIA. (more…)[…]

Well, I don’t mean me sauce of course, that would be disgusting… anyway!
Tonight I’m going to be carrying out a little experiment. I found some char sui sauce in the local shop (good old shop, it is the nicest thing about New Cross […]

TV Cream’s Toy Catalogue. Yet more proof that TV cream does pay revisiting from time to time — and it looks like they’ve actually been working on this since late 2005. It’s updated like a blog, but indexed A–Z. Here are […]

Robots. And not the so-so computer animated flick of 2005, but real actual robots, computer-brained servants made to follow our every need. The Freaky Trigger periodic table is forward looking to anticipate – in our time – more domestic s[…]

Nearly all the reviews of Straightheads have been dismissive of this British revenge flick (example from Time Out here). Generally it got one star, half a paragraph and a snide remark that Gillian Anderson was slumming it. And perhaps in the upmarket[…]

Random commenter “im borat” brought this old post of Pete’s to my attention, and reminded me that our badgery friends at Hall and Woodhouse have a new seasonal ale to take over from Hopping Hare. It’s called STINGER, it&#8217[…]

Last July I ranked and annotated the first dozen volumes in DC’s Showcase Presents bargain vintage reprint series (500pp, B&W, about £11). Time for another look. In approximate order of preference since then:
Superman 3
This is wonderful m[…]