“the WORMS of the AIR!!”
(i heart bestiaries – even THIS one which has a v.v.pompous-ass cease-and-desist death-to-antirockist-scholarship policy abt picture-linking)[…]

stick with the beasts we got plz #2: the CATOBLEPAS

Body of a buffalo, head of a hog, gaze and/or breath deadly, weeps constantly: Pliny the Elder said it wz sluggish, its head so heavy it cannot lift it from the ground. Desperate explanationists s[…]

hataz rejoice!!
non-fans of my bladdy diet will be delighted to hear that after the swimmer FAP – 1 pint london price, 1 pint jack frost, 1 vodka&tonic – it was SO WINDY AND WET AND COLD ON THE JOURNEY BACK that i needed three packe[…]

rappers write like THIS:
the indefatigable www.allhiphop.com emails to say “NAS WORKING ON NOVELS: Rap vet Nas has decided to pen his own novels.”” Probably the only surprising aspect of this really is that it’s taken rap so […]

centaurs are classically portrayed as noble and amazing (if occasionally super-horny): but i have always found em ANNOYING!!i. look at them they are top-heavy at the front = when they gallop they will fall on their facesii. they have TOO MANY LIMBS =[…]

forbidden fruits-de-mer
when i shared a flat w.sistrah becky there were three things i wz not allowed to eat unless she wz away for several days
i. baked beanz ii. rollmop herring iii. smoked oysters
well i just rediscovered those little john west[…]

“a real bottom-feeder thought that one up”*
didn’t see all of the harold shipman doc as it clashed first w.old-skool csi (abt suburban sex parties!) and then shameless BUT as i have a pal who wz shipman’s patient briefly as a[…]

THE COMING DROUGHT?
ok i watched c4’s 100 best cartoons last night mainly to punish david stubbs for a particularly thin editorial in this month’s wire (he sets out his stall by apologising for watching some previous c4 top 100, b4 wheel[…]

diet a success: dieter scarily hott and smugg (cont.)…
D. ca ma-ca-ren kho coi thit ba chi (vietnamese mackerel cooked in a pot lined with belly pork) ok mackerel is VERY CHEAP and VERY OILY, and the oiliness is what some ppl find offputting ([…]

“that now I do not like to think of maggots in his eyes”
hopkin greenfrog and i argued abt betjeman in the comments to this post, and tim asked “Did he ever liked anything modernist (art lit music architecture whatever)”? So […]