an “experienced reality TV psychologist“??
the one-word version is “scientician”[…]

Quarks and their Sexual Preferences
“The top is so massive and short-lived that it does not live long enough to combine with other quarks to form a hadron.”
(this = muster mark s’s contribution to bloomsday obv)[…]

BRUB! BRUB! BRUB![…]

trife hide yr eyes as the us left PICK THEIR FAVORITE LPs:
a lot of pretty nice if highly orthodox records, almost all from very long ago, with little evidence here (militant anti-rockist a.cockburn aside)* of agile or inquisitive or even listening […]

“singer who defied musical categories…”
but “musical categories” are of course only defined with hindsight, not in advance: a more accurate (or do i mean helpfully argumentative?) description might be “singer who […]

he did it first miss!!
if it’s not too cheeky linking to something of mine, i just updated sparks in stone lanes with this, slightly rejigged, from the S&S A-Z of Cinema, June 1998: Y is for YOUTH[…]

(co-worker returns from holiday in ecuador, and has to be caught up news of momart fire)
co-worker 1: the tone of the press was pretty sneery: i guess it’s just TATE BRICKS all over againco-worker 2: the bricks would have been fine! they were […]

house makeover progs seem caught between the conformist-aspirational (= how much can i calculatedly add on before selling it), and a my-dear-such-plebs fey aestheticism which is a lot past its sell-by (= when they put oscar in jug)
i haven’t b[…]

parturiunt montes, nascetur ridiculus mus
bah this tale is all tease and deferred delivery (note however how mountainspeak has shifted from the lofty excelsior sublime of mallory’s time – where climbers were trying to waft themselves abo[…]

“06/07 Everest 2004: Mallory and Irvine The Final Chapter: Be careful what you ask for… coming on Tuesday“ (ie tomorrow)
this climbing team, posting anonymously and melodramatically from everest over the last month, claimed b4 they[…]