Stay behind after class
So, the fourth series of teachers has started on C4 with very little fanfare. I guess everyone else round here has given up on it, but I saw the beginning of the first ep on Tuesday. Since Andrew Lincoln (or Egg, as he&#8217[…]

An open letter to Fancy A Pint.
Thank you, thank you, thank you for FINALLY starting to link to Streetmap for your maps of where pubs are. This is a lot easier than copying the postcode from the pub description, opening streetmap, putting the postco[…]

FT !P!O!P!sclusive!
Last night, your NYLPM correspondent was happily drinking cocktails in a bar in London’s trendy London when who should walk in but BLUR. And when I say BLUR I mean real actual classic BLUR, with reformed COXON! All four or[…]

Further to Pete’s comments on a less healthy way to “five a day” see below for a stall seen on Blackpool’s Central pier. Sorry for the shoddy phone-cam picture, but it was all we had to hand.

That list of choco-coated fruit […]

In the fullness of time (ie after I’ve finished reading the whole book) I will write a (probably very favourable) review of Planet Simpson. However, possibly in the style of Comic Book Guy, I have to Report Back straight away on a howler of an[…]

Indie Chicken
(i’m such a bandwagon jumper (but also a fried chicken eater, so i couldn’t really turn down liz’s offer to join in))
#3 Favourite Chicken and Ribs, High Road, N15.
The problem with my journey back from the pub to my n[…]

No excuse at all
I know it’s reknowned as a library, but surely this is taking things a bit far. Songsheets? In full colour .pdf format? Blimey… This does prove, quite conclusively though, that arsenal fans do have the worst chants eve[…]

FT Top 100 Films
37: INTERSTELLA 5555: THE 5TORY OF THE 5ECRET 5TAR 5YSTEM
SteveM says:
It’s the most ambitious pop cartoon since ‘Yellow Submarine’. But I5555’s appeal may have been dented by a two-and-a-half-year release gap[…]

Day of Scooby!!
So I was channel flicking last night when I saw Scooby’s All Star Laffalympics was on Boomerang. Now, this programme has been discussed (along with animalympics of course) quite a lot recently, so I was keen to see how it stood[…]

FT Top 100 Films
38: LIFE AND DEATH OF COLONEL BLIMP
Martin Skidmore Says:
This film is among my all-time favourites, and I love it unreservedly, but it seems not to get too much attention these days. I think we undervalue Powell and Pressburger &#82[…]