Pretty much as soon as the blizzard started (w/thunder and everything) one of our rabbits started going mental – she was darting about, bashing her hutch-mate and making the loudest growls I’ve ever heard from her, echoing snarling yelps […]

Poptimism: an unexpected ally!! (If it is him – he doesn’t seem terribly optimistic here anyhow)[…]

For my wedding present Mike Daddino very very kindly gave me a massive folder of CD-Rs, full of MP3s. Among them were every MP3 he’d managed to track down (as of 2001 or so) from the Appendices of Simon Reynolds‘ Energy Flash. I’ve […]

Pub Quiz Etiquette: A team with several publog regulars won a pub quiz last night. A team with several more publog regulars came second. Total swag – ’50 of drinks vouchers. But this morning it’s hard to feel too proud – the t[…]

Sweet Cred[…]

Wales are trying to get to Euro 2004 through the back door, after a doping scandal in the Russia team. They want the 0-0 draw in the first leg replaced with a 3-0 victory for them. What I don’t understand is where this scoreline was plucked fro[…]

KISS AMC – “A Bit Of U2”
UK pop-rap crossover from 1989 which goes straight for the obvious-bone and pastes great wodges of “New Year’s Day” into tumbling raps. Kiss AMC had family connections to Ruthless Rap Assas[…]

Here’s a little confession: it’s been close to three years since I listened to a Magnetic Fields album. In fact if you haven’t been reading FT since way back when you probably didn’t even realise how much I loved that band. Th[…]

The mantle of Jeremiah suits Mark K-Punk very well, which is a shame in a way – the enthusiastic posts he made about The Stone Tape and Talons Of Weng-Chiang were really excellent, insightful, itching-to-watch-it-again stuff. His gloomier stuff[…]

Damn those cunning spammers – they’ve got me good and proper this time. I received an email saying “you are an idiot” – excellent, I thought! There’s nothing that gets the circulation going like flame-mail. But no,[…]