My holiday in France had three aims: visiting Maman et Papa in their new home, going to look at lots of animals, and the traditional French holiday diversion of eating a ton of lovely nosh. My parents have moved to the Limousin, one of the less popul[…]

Haysi Fantayzee – “John Wayne Is Big Leggy”
This MP3 has been prepared especially for The Lex of ILX, who it turns out has never heard of John Wayne. Mr Wayne is famous for making cowboy films but he’s surely more famous as th[…]

That Crazy Frog thing Mark S is talking about below can be found here. Nim nim.
Did we mention that POPTIMISM is back? On August 19th? Downstairs@The Polar Bear on Lisle St, 1 min walk from Leicester Square tube, playing pop music, 7 till lateish, &p[…]

And so we come to one of my favourite times of year as a football neutral: the Season Previews. Full of things I’m a sucker for: paper-thin analysis, inexplicable predictions, wild optimism, bogus claims. Of course reading one in a sitting is a[…]

In Sainsbury’s the other day I noticed that Lambrini had a special offer on, and was now 99p a bottle. That’s ninety-nine pence for 750ml of 7.5% booze – the same price as Tennants or Spesh, only slightly weaker and 50% larger. Risk[…]

We went to see Fantastic Four yesterday and…it was pretty good! Really! It was fine. Underrated even! I’ll leave Pete or one of those, you know, film people to talk about it as a movie, and I’m going to talk a bit about its relation[…]

GOSH WOW massive great planet found on edge…of…solar…syzzzzzzzzz…
Even the BBC, keen sponsor of new planets (“Quaoar Blimey!”) is struggling to seem interested in this “great discovery”.[…]

(I had the idea a while ago of using blogs to talk about my expectations of something before I read/heard/etceteraed it. This would, I thought, be an interesting reference point once I had, uh, consummated my whatevers with it. It might also be awful[…]

Liz D, a good friend of many of us, and a regular contributor to Freaky Trigger, was killed in the bombings in London on July 7th.
This is a compilation of links to Liz’ posts for us about food. I was planning to put together some of my favouri[…]

The I Love Comics bestest characters ever poll is underway, and from the votes so far it’s looking pretty interesting. There’s still the best part of a month to vote so if you love comics, give it a go.[…]