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[…]

Tiny Lives
Do you remember autobiographical comics? What – they’re still going? I wouldn’t know. I stopped reading them, oh, four, five years ago. Weirdly enough it was around the time I started reading weblogs – now isn&#8217[…]

I’m proud to present the third batch of CD treasures for re-housing. If you want to see the list of items, go to TMFD and click on the link below the totaliser. If you want to see them in their full glory, follow the links below:
Frankly not ev[…]

Why I Am A Sucker
Our canteen has started stocking Hershey bars. This is presumably because lots of Americans work here. Also lots of dupes like me. Hershey bars are twice as expensive as the good honest Cadbury’s chocolate bars beloved of the […]

MAUL MY MEMORIES II
If I was the sort of person who posted to ILM here is a thread I would post: “Things you knew would be ‘cult bands/albums/records’ the moment you heard them”. The clumsy phrasing of that suggests that I hav[…]

POP FACTOR: 774 CONTROVERSY RATING: 190
Girls Aloud take their mockabilly strut a little too fast, there’s a lockstep urgency to the rhythm that makes the fun more frantic by giving you the feeling they’re just a trip away from falling […]

Green Wing: COUNTERPOINT
I have to say I’m surprised and pleased to find myself in an apparent majority on Green Wing. But I have to cede a fair few points to Pete – Green Day is bold, different, experimental, uncompromising TV and to res[…]

Public and large thanks to
Edward at Enthusiastic But Mediocre
Jessica at Into The Groove
John at The Tofu Hut
Keith at TTIKTDA
for their help with a piece on MP3 Blogs I’ve been writing, which I finished and sent off last night. I’ll let[…]