AIM: To see if avocado is nature’s butter (2). If it is, can you bake a cake with avocado instead of butter?
APPARATUS: Cake tin with removable base, various bowls, electric whisk, blender, sieve, dessert spoon, sharp knife; 4 eggs, 12 oz sel[…]

on the whole i sleep lightly – waking at the slightest hackney gunshot or police helicopter flyover – and, esp. if too hot, find it v.hard to drift off in the first place
for a long time – ie when i wz in my twenties – this i[…]

the slut = Blanche = Bono the “innocent” = Rose = Larry Mullenthe cynic = Miranda =The Edgethe sophisticated center = Dorothy = Adam Clayton
and many similar elegant mappings[…]

we demand a PICTURE
UPDATE: ok now the story has a picture (which haha totally undermines the CLEVER YET KOMIKAL lead graf) so the story must be savoured for other reasons viz the quote from Daily Post art critic Philip “i don’t get it&#8[…]

while googlin for obscure stuff connected to what mr g.galloway famously called mr c.hitchens recently, i discovered this VERY THOROUGH160-question tintin trivia quiz
plus also it has VERY HARD picture quizzes! viz a tintin flag quiz and a tintin SPL[…]

Mikal Gilmore, little brother of notorious executed mormon-killer Gary, and author of THIS excellent if grim memoir (as well as a lot of rather less excellent rock writing), says somewhere in the memoir, in wonder, that many of the photos of his chil[…]

(and emsk and stev!e ch!ck) wz v.nice, w.plenty of top rockchat, and they said they enjoyed their sandwiches, which is good bcz i suggested we go to angel’s cheap and languid courtyard cafe, even though i (afterwards) recalled i had the second […]

sistrah becky heard a dancehall toaster* on a hackney pirate station doing an um hommage to Cräzy Frøg, complete with many excellent jungle-style samples etc…
APB to the knowledgeable – is this available on record (or whatever you pop […]

herewith (courtesy an f.kogan email a few days back) a MAP OF MUSIC, but organised by what criteria? (viz “adam and the ants“)??
i. i declare it scientific bcz ii. i like the way the names kinda dance around
warning: it is addictive pos[…]

hmph my final para is very nearly as tricksily coded as the code it aims to decode, so to further murkify i shall just add this… A. cf marcello’s post abt Pink Floyd below; and B. where i think Dissensian Disdain for the Pro-Pop Massive ([…]