Fantasy Reader: titled with admirable honesty this is a blog run by somebody who reads fantasy books and then writes about them. It’s a neglected genre (justly in some ways?) so it’s interesting to see the enthusiast’s own perspecti[…]

Somebody wrote in reminding me to name the Tooting curry house we liked so much (see below), so here we go…
Shahnaz Indian Cuisine, 102 High Street Tooting
“To avoid disappointment please reserve a table” it says here but Pumpkin Pu[…]

J.C.CHASEZ – “A.D.I.D.A.S.”
Everybody’s going on about this song at the moment, and they’re quite right. Something I like about it: one-note choruses aren’t uncommon in pop but the way Chasez grates his voice for t[…]

I swear I had no idea that Marcello had laid into 1985 when I put Red Box in my Top 12 just now. He really has a go at that particular single, as well. Maybe I’m the only person who likes it: I’ll admit I gulp slightly at its bug-eyed pos[…]

Level Playing Field: I’ve rearranged the blogs section so that there’s no more ‘ten favourites’ stuff going on – apologies if your hits drop as a result of this but it seemed a bit self-important.
On the other hand comme[…]

PopNose: it’s part of FT but it won’t be linked from the front page, so you might want to make a note of it if you like the idea. (UPDATE: no PopNose yet readers as we have bandwidth issues. When we’ve worked out how much we can use[…]

I know what you’re thinking — rapping dentist from Sweden makes anti-drugs record, time for a chuckle. And certainly the odds are against Dr Alban — his delivery is comically serious and his chorus runs ‘Cocaine will blow your[…]

Mmmm…nice – “daily adventures in Jazz” – do you know I don’t think I’ve ever seen a dedicated Jazz blog before, though of course lots of people (Josh in particular springs to mind) have written quite a lot ab[…]

Anatomy of a Meme: things described as “TARDIS-like” (thanks Google)
– analysers on a Mars probe
– a shed
– a Police Box (hmm)
– the Dust Bar on Clerkenwell Road
– a dice on Kids TV progamme Maths In A Box
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Another day, another curry – benefit of living in Tooting: you are surrounded on all sides by rarely less than interesting curry houses. On Friday night we checked out yet another one (whose name you must remind me to edit into this post tomorr[…]