while our whirring engines prepare the latest edition of the Lollards of Pop podcast (broadcast last evening on Resonance FM 104.4), engorge your minds upon this vision of apocalypse by Minnesota artist Joseph Sinness, o readers:[…]

It will be no surprise to our readers that despite much food science and interest in cooking, the FreakyTrigger Cookbook is still a few years away. But it behooves me to remind contributors and anyone using a recipe on this site of the following:
CON[…]

AVPR, or Alien vs Predator: Requiem was always going to be a terrible film. There was probably no way of making it any good, as a sequel to a double franchise smooshing melange of an idea already done better in a comic. The gestation of such a film i[…]

I am not one to mock the afflicted, unless the afflicted are
a) a wonky eyed singer*
b) a one armed drummer
c) a rhombus faced popstrel
d) the blind – when the blind in question are Ray Charles or Stevie Wonder
e) actually I’m probably go[…]

ok my local pret — the one in angel — generally plays reasonably demanding jazz (ie hard bop mostly not “smooth”): this seems to me quite a daring move, given that (surely?) more ppl willingly dislike jazz than like it? (at le[…]

For those of you who want more on some of last nights subjects, first from the website Barely Political comes the video for I’ve Got A Crush On Obama by Obama Girl.

Its OK, we appear to be about six months behind the curve on that one. Also ch[…]

Campaign Themes. Mark Wills “Nineteen Something”. Glastonbury Twitter from the future. Fiery Furnaces “Benton Harbour Blues (reprise)”. Some Pub History (much of it true). A bit of Charles Title “The Eight Seasons of Chromalox” and a splash of Charlton Lido. The midweek #1 is… Obama Girl “Got a Crush on Obama”

As heard on last weeks FTLoP, amongst the fantasy gamebook boom of the mid eighties, was an unusual threesome known as the Cretan Chronicles. Not the first linked set of gamebooks, it nevertheless followed quite swiftly on the heels of Steve Jackson&[…]

Thinking about how to write about I’m Not There has been almost as entertaining as watching the admittedly already very entertaining film. First I considered taking a director heavy view. No huge fan of Todd Haynes, I was toying with comparing […]

As loathe as I am to suggest I and my fellow food scientist at Freaky Trigger has started a trend, yet another Marmite Special Edition has reminded me of an experiment we did a few years ago. So yes yes, to Valentine’s Day themed Champagne Marm[…]