MY NEW CAMPAIGN:
evazev: why are there not more ghosts in soaps? tokyo rosemary: there should be! evazev: yes!![…]

BLAME IT ON THE RAMONES:
This is MUMMY THE PEEPSHOW. They are on the all-girl Japanese Benten label. Their drummer is called IxMxDxUx. They do a cover version of “Banned from the Pubs” by Peter and the Test Tube Babies. Another song is &[…]

DEAD MAN’S CHESS: (Three Questions abt Treasure Island pt 2)
#2: What are Long John Silver’s politics? (sorry this is v.long: scroll down to excellent = less homework-y stuff from sarah and mike g. and tom)
i. Even if we agree that the […]

PUBS WE DREAMTPart #1 in a never-ending series of series which rarely progress beyond Part #1
It was more a bar than a pub, and more a student-type bar than a ahem actual real bar: ie tatty, with unfeasibly low tables and v.cheap metal-frame easy cha[…]

DEAD MAN’S CHESS: or
Three Questions abt Treasure Island
#1: When is it set? JimH is famously coy (“I take up my pen in the year of grace 17__” only gives a clue abt when he WROTE it) but there are clues. i. The King is a George =[…]

GUESS MY THEORY #2!![…]

Who the hell queues?
Good food in comfort trumps ‘happening scene’ any day for me, though I’m not actually inverse-snob allergic to the latter: trendiness happens, and instant abreaction is as much a prison as kneejerk attraction
BU[…]

GUESS MY THEORY! The following is no coincidence because [insert reason here][…]

NU-LEECH STYLE pt 874683
Everything old is right after all…(link courtesy somedisco)
(Tom u must post yr worms story!!)[…]

TS: Fact vs Fiction
‘The celebrated East Room was still unfinished, although Jefferson had recently used it to give shelter to the largest cheese ever made in the United States. This odoriferous miracle of American inventiveness most appropriat[…]