i’m not a huge fan of james wolcott’s writing — about music, film OR more recently politics — and plus i STILL haven’t read rip it up (or finished benW’s notorious review!), but this handy rave, which then actually[…]

All around the world, there are mountain roads where drivers can ease off the car brakes and wheee!! They coast happily UPHILL hurrah. Explanationist “surveyors” — and other similar shills for the frightened Scientific Establishment[…]

the krew rereads the (i think 98) REAL ACTUAL (tranlated) OEUVRES of the NOBEL PRIZE WINNERS FOR LIT startin w. handsome Sully Prudhomme (see below), not so much to discuss and dissect — this will occur naturally — as to see if we can pos[…]

the “oldest prepared food found intact”[…]

TAKING SIDES: intellectual property rights vs the well-being of everyone on the planet[…]

update on the OTHER Best. Science. Story. Ever…
Photograph © Peter Brown/Nature[…]

i like banksy’s work a lot, for good sentimental-personal reasons — there’s a lot of it dotting the grim reaches round old street, which i often used to have to pass through on the way to work, before i knew who he was, and at the […]

strawmen in the wind
“The ass is back, after almost two decades of pop culture focusing on the bust line, this is significant”: Ignoring the um iconic weight this observer places on this trend, is it even (= ie empirically ) true? I have […]

quotidian cliche misinforms us — PWEI and GBOA (not to mention NAD) were JABOF and thus NEVER TRUE GREBO. In the interests of the quest for a higher reality, all is now revealed:
Deep Grebo Level 1: It all makes sense when you think about it&#[…]

i could look this up or ask but it is more fun to explore it as an EXPERIMENT viz which bacon does WHAT? bacon is sold in all different permutations — back bacon, unsmoked bacon etc — and i realised this week i have never bothered working[…]