Anyone missing the unique contribution to human-animal relations made by That’s Life in its heyday should get themselves to the Ananova quirky section, where pets still do the “funniest things”.
Young Cross-Stitcher Of The Year Awar[…]

It’s an unexpected and wonderful pleasure when you get to eat a familiar food cooked much better than you’ve ever had it. All my life I’ve been eating roast chicken, and for a few years I’ve been roasting roast chicken, and it[…]

I believe this idea was once used by Select back in the mists of, but this is going to be much better:
The Pop World Cup
You don’t even have to be signed up to LiveJournal to take part (honest).
This has very little to do with sport really, exc[…]

Sweeney Todd, which I caught most of last night, was good in an Actors going about their Acting Business with lots of Pauses way, and Ray Winstone’s wobbly hurt face very effective, but I couldn’t help thinking that the demon barber of Fl[…]

RIP Maurice Dodd: creator of The Perishers.[…]

This really is the last NYLPM post.
If you’ve enjoyed NYLPM, you might also enjoy:
– the NYLPM archives, which will be staying up.
– the rest of Freaky Trigger, which will sail on unaffected, though with fewer overall hits most like[…]

This is the last NYLPM post*.
After five and a half years, 3,500 posts and something like forty contributors I’m pulling the plug on this blog. Once upon a time it was the best music blog in the world, more recently it was just something nice t[…]

aka What I Made For The In-Laws On Christmas Eve
1. Boil and mash some potatoes.
2. Brown some beef mince. Add a little cooking wine and some beef bouillon to make it juicier. I’d meant to do some onion with this but I forgot it.
3. Add raisins[…]

Oddly enough I’m feeling happier about music, and writing about music, than I have for a couple of years. 2006 is going to be a treat: I want to get there quickly, not look back.
So I got a machine to look back for me. I was a late iPod adopter[…]

Whatever happened to Uncle?: fine article from the Economist on the neglected children’s classic beloved of some Freaky Trigger writers. I think they’re basically right about the books and why they don’t sell – Uncle is a very[…]