Whoosh! Erase The World lays into The Rugger with a righteous ire. It’s hard to disagree. (Link via the tremendous It’s All In Your Mind). I saw a bunch of the highlights last night and they seem to consist primarily of a prurient “[…]

When you’re listening to Karen Carpenter singing ‘Close To You’, do you dream she’s singing to you? Or do you dream you’re her, singing to some object of love? Or do you hear the words like a fiction? I’m not sure […]

CRISP PACKET COPY 2: Walkers Sensations Seasonal Edition: Honey Roasted Ham
‘WALKERS SENSATIONS are a new taste experience ‘ crunchier potato crisps bursting with irresistible flavours.
‘HONEY ROASTED HAM recreates the warm, season[…]

Some of my best friends are Scottish, and the recent round of internationals pointed up an interesting dilemma for the English football fan who likes laughing at Scottish football. Do I:
(a) patronisingly support the plucky Scots in their fight agai[…]

Since the publog food of the day is celery, I feel I should give a brief mention to celery in its finest possible form, as experienced by various publoggers on our Big Outing To Brussels earlier this year. Here is the recipe:
1. Install yourself in […]

Impromptu art sightings #2: alighting at Charing Cross Station (or possibly Victoria) I wandered through the barriers and out into the world. Standing there was a young woman holding a cardboard sign like a taxi driver at an airport. What was written[…]

In a game between Manchester United and England, at the moment, Man U would probably win, although it seems according to the Observer that the interesting action would be in the fighting beforehand.
I know that if I had heard MU fans singing &#8220[…]

Swells clearly wrote this in his sleep, bless him, but ‘Get off your knees, you disgusting old scabs’ did make me laugh.
I was right behind the FA (for the first time ever, I think) on their handling of the Ferdinand business but when I […]

Down East Dulwich way, everyone’s talking about the Sea Cow, part of the ongoing gentri-restaurantification of Lordship Lane. The Sea Cow is a chip shop with attached eating area. But it’s a decidedly posh version of a chippy: at the fron[…]

The Observer Sport Monthly ran what I thought was a rather mean-spirited article about Glenn Hoddle which rehearsed all the familiar Hoddle issues we’ve read so much about: distant, arrogant, obsessed with his own legend. And so on.
I’m n[…]