We had an offsite middle management meeting in Croydon yesterday. It was everything you might expect an offsite middle management meeting in Croydon to be, including the dread words on the agenda “interactive game”. When you are a small c[…]

As a sort of penance for Zoe Williams’ rubbish piece (see below), the Guardian published this enlightening write-up of traditional kipper and herring production. As is often the case when I read a G2 article and think “hold on, this is in[…]

Zoe Williams is a funny writer but a lot of her longer pieces read like half-baked message board posts (and I should know). This one, railing against the current fashion for liver and bone marrow, is no exception. Williams builds a straw man that wou[…]

It’s surely an indictment of something that the two pop-culture events I’ve been most excited about this year have been a comics series and Doctor Who. Certainly I’ve been spending more time than is perhaps healthy exploring my chil[…]

We will be injecting illegal monkey glands into this old blogging warhorse over the weekend, ready for a relaunch next week.
(Until then all contributors please post using ‘draft’ mode only, thanks.)[…]

It seems like ages since we’ve had a classic cybersquatting story.[…]

Grant Morrison has a rep for being an ideas man but what he’s really good at is creating and sustaining a mood. A Morrison first issue generally presents you with a fully-formed aesthetic and if it hits your particular frequencies you’ll […]

A weird listening moment while walking jetlagged round Seattle, listening to “Same Old Brand New You” by A1 and realising OMG it’s about BLAIR!!!!!
Here’s proof!
I can still remember the time you were there
When I needed to ho[…]

A couple of links:
45blog is an MP3 blog whose remit is to digitise out-of-print old singles. This is the kind of thing that warms the cockles of my heart even before I’ve downloaded anything: good show, sir. Reads well, too.
This meanwhile is […]

I like the sound of pan pipes. They have a delicate, burnished tone that I find very attractive. On a recent visit to Finland my wife had to take a Pan Pipes Play The Beatles compilation away from me and return it to the one euro bin. Incantation&#82[…]