Link with clip of Martha Rosler’s Semiotics of the Kitchen (requires Quicktime) as mentioned on yesterday’s FTatLoP. Sadly, my own video of the merciless blunt object destruction of a load of digestives would not upload to YouTube last ni[…]

as per lollardry yesterday, mp3 of caruso singing “vesti la giubba” HERE: this is conventionally regarded as the first million-selling record (though he recorded it more than once in the years for difft record companies 1902-03, and i ima[…]

I’m still laughing at it months later. (From 3m 54s)[…]

HIT from Tin Pan Alley. Host Steve, guests Mark, Sarah and Rob (contains a lot of finbarr saunders sniggering). Eurovision, The wrong mag fields track, violent cookery and bashing biscuits, Tanya and The Fall, Chess and Murder, the man who wouldn’t die, 2002-A Hit Song – Freedesign, Dr Pub and round remembering, Caruso and the hot sausage, The Hit Song – DJ Format.

(Prompted by a great post about designer Barney Bubbles over at Feuilleton.)[…]

Don’t ever visit the 4chan site, it’s incomprehensible and full of filth (what better advert). But if you are feeling old from the incomprehensible tide of internets memes (which you can nearly always trace back to 4chan), you could get y[…]

Looking back it’s so bizarre, it runs in the family. My mother’s brothers grew up in the 50s and when I was growing up I received some hand me down books and toys. Were they ever into space stuff! A Dan Dare radio station toy, an early To[…]

norton died in 2005, aged 93, with a LOT of titles to her name — my reread entirely took in books i read aged i wd say 10-12
my interest was slightly piqued by fellow lollard TRACER HAND, who lent me THE WORLD TURNED UPSIDE DOWN (ed.Drake/Flint[…]

(or “heterogenous ideas yok’d by violence together” as dr sourpuss johnson had it)
item #1: GOURMET PRINGLES[…]

Klaxons n. 1. a device that makes an unpleasant repetitve noise, with the effect of clearing an area as quickly as possible.
2. that gadget the police use.[…]