The Limits Of Photography: overheard on the tube. Speaker – teenage sloane on way to Camden to buy a T-Shirt (circumstantial detail provided by same, at high volume).
“I hate people who won’t be photographed, it’s so stupid. T[…]

After the relative aesthetic success of “ABBA in Hindi” I was delighted when someone on Slsk was sharing something called ABBA Metal. Readers prone to stereotyping will be delighted to discover that this CD comes from Germany, spiritual h[…]

Lumbering propaganda piece Hero is of high interest if you like colour-coded interior design or CGI madness involving arrows. Otherwise it’s gorgeous cobblers, a waste of five or six great pop videos. The portentious narrative style may be an a[…]

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25: A Matter Of Life And Death
Martin Skidmore says: This has a great setup and it expands on it with imagination and extraordinary flair. It starts with a wonderful conversation between sexy aircraft coordinator Kim Hunter and doome[…]

TEDDYBEARS STHLM – “Cobrastyle”
There’s a long thread on ILE at the moment about the demerits of iconic faces on T-Shirts, to wit Nico who is apparently on some new New Look gear with the ahistorical slogan “Chelsea Unde[…]

Pete’s fine attempt at a Busted comic (see below) prompts this vital question over at I Love Comics. I’d never really given it much thought before but it seems odd that there was never a Beatles comic, or a Bay City Rollers comic, or a Mo[…]

The sport on TV most often in my boyhood was Chess. My Dad used to play Chess – pretty well, too, he won his club tournament 11 times in a row and they had a special rose bowl made after the tenth, so when he finally lost the cup he’d hav[…]

Go! Go! Go! to Enthusiastic But Mediocre where you will find me getting into a FITE with some European pop music from the land of the Moomins.[…]

Best Quiz Machine In World Found
It’s in well-known Freaky Trigger stamping ground the Blue Posts on Newman Street, never in general an exciting pub but a very robust one that has played host to all sorts of shenanigans. In the corner stands it[…]

Moominvalley In November
Have you ever been on your own in a hotel? A big hotel, a hundred rooms – and no other guests but you?
We arrived in Bialowieza on a Tuesday, to stay four nights. It was early November, the night came on early and the v[…]