This is a super-simple non-authentic take on BOUILLABAISSE = Provençal fish stew. For the PROPER THING, you need MANY FISH TYPES inc.RASCASSE (left), plus monkfish, red gurnard, John Dory, prawns, eels ect ect. However unless you live in THE CAMARG[…]

ok so p^nk s the high lord sükråt cunctør* took plebian form at the JERUSALEM TAVERN** to dally with the puissant lords woebot and kpunk and duke pill of box, plus also another fellow called matt who HAF NO BLOG TITLE :0 but was instrumental in ge[…]

aqua: lollipop (candyman)
There’s a device in film soundtrack music which may well go back to 19th-century opera — or actually operetta, something just round the corner of memory is whispering (bizet, it whispers, bizet) — where ban[…]

the prog: silent witness, just now ending
the story: mash-up of heavenly creatures and strangers on a train, except in threes not twos
the milestone: “30,000 hits in 45 minutes on my blog”
ie this is the first time i heard the word &#822[…]

a friend told me last week that he had encountered — in relation to a WELL-KNOWN CURRENTLY V.POPULAR MAJOR ELECTRONIC PRODUCT (wkcpMEP) — a MONUMENTAL OLD-SKOOL FRAUD about to unfold. Which when discovered will embarrass the manufacturers[…]

i. most years the ants only swarm once, at most twice; they have swarmed at least FIVE TIMES this year, most recently this evening
ii. insects i have never seen in london before = bright poison-green cricket — i’ve seen two (one opposite […]

… but the ALL-TIME WORST BBC SIT-COM EVAH (=my hero) has suddenly (ie since ardal o’hanlon left and james dreyfus took over) also become the ODDEST
ok i have not and cannot watch for more than a couple of lines at a time — it is ST[…]

long-awaited carmodistic tour-de-force on kids-TV k-klassik flambards[…]

my entry:
An Humbler Heaven: the Beginnings of Hope, William Rees-Mogg, Collins paperbacks, 1977 — the blurb begins “The evidence for the existence of God is like the pre-photographic evidence for the existence of Everest”, so the f[…]

(i already mentioned this in the goblin comments somewhere, except i couldn’t recall its NAME)
i. it is called “Drake!”
ii. it comes in a long thin box, and the “board” is a rolled up parchment MAP! (drawback: it has be[…]