It’s Just Like Watching…Hold On!: a link to welcome Tim back from his stateside holiday![…]

PopNose12 (1.5M) Today’s PopNose is unique in that I’ve not actually even heard it! It was picked by Nathalie and then prepared by me. The one slight drawback is that if I’ve got a shonky file I won’t know about it. Meanwhile,[…]

An interview with me about blogging. It’s a bit dry and grumpy because I did it in a rush at the end of work. There are interviews with other people too, all of whom write in Swedish: BIG UP THE SWEDISH BLOGOSPHERE! And of course the week after[…]

Best eBay Auction Ever. Did I win it? No. I got the end time wrong. IDIOT TOM.[…]

Google Stat Of The Week, #1 In A Series Etc Etc
FACTORY-MADE
“manufactured pop”: 9,310
“manufactured rock”: 464 (largely about landscaping, alas)
“manufactured soul”: 121
“manufactured dance”: 54
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Symptoms of MP3 Culture Part 345296: I just caught myself congratulating myself for being late to a record – not only not hearing the Wiley record until it’s in the shops but mostly avoiding the web talk on it, so that the gorgeous, gorge[…]

Some ambitions seem so unlikely that they end up just being vague curiosities. For instance I always assumed there was some kind of vetting process for TV pop show audiences and that a fat bearded thirtysomething would fall well outside it. So it cam[…]

A Bird In The Hand was what Channel 4 called its biog of tragic emu-wielding funnyman Rod Hull. The show ran along standard tears-behind-the-laughter lines; what really divided the viewers was the question of whether Emu was funny. Alan and I voted a[…]

Oh no! All the publog gourmets have gone to the States for some kind of wedding thing! What are the rest of us to do? To the rescue, Cooking With Crisps![…]

Numerological mysteries: Three “not a nice number” says Anthony from Blue. My understanding is that Lee has been planning a solo release for ages – he was going on about an anti-war single last year to the distaste of leading politi[…]