The Cool Museum ‘ not reading Japanese, I’m none the wiser really, but I like the pictures:[…]

I mislaid my copy of Metal Machine Music a few years ago – possibly I lent it to some so-called “friend” – so I can’t check the sleevenotes to help out (besides I had some weird continental cut-out versions which omitted[…]

Rewatching The Return of the King with Dr Vick, we both found ourselves wincing and hiding our eyes plenty of times during the Battle of the Pellenor Fields. OK, so self-appointed hardnut intellectuals = mimpy underneath the pose shock horror newsfla[…]

“The moss on a dead man’s skull“: isn’t this just most evocative phrase? On the whole the doortstep-weight Religion and the Decline of Magic: Studies in Popular Beliefs in 16th- and 17th-Century England (Keith Thomas, 1971, Pe[…]

Those wacky Middle Agers!!:
“WARNING: Do not attempt to recreate this recipe, as lime is highly caustic and potentially dangerous; it should never be used in cooking.”
(Ingredient availability permitting – haha peacock unlikely &#[…]

The Science of the Cookery of Animals Which Don’t Exist #1: The Cockentrice

(I’m still trying to track down net sources on a really interesting piece I read in Scientific American some years back, about medieval theories of food and nu[…]

Even More Ambushed By Unexpected Emotion #???: I didn’t listen to the Buffy musical that much since I wrote this, and I was only relistening for actual real work reasons. A lot more of it than I would have predicted snagged at something inside […]

I just ate the best banana ever grown!! – so it is downhill from here on in I guess…[…]

Water on Mars is not news, especially… James Lovelock – who worked for NASA developing techniques for testing planetary atmospheres, and comparing Mars with Venus and Earth – argues that you can tell if life exists on a planet by ta[…]

B-but surely the “urine varnish” scene will be on the DVD!!?[…]