I don’t go out of my way to watch Top Gear. It was just on, OK? And as it was on I noticed something quite horrible. Jeremy Clarkson interviewing Steve Coogan. And it was like watching The Abyss* stare into itself.
Okay, it is not exactly clev[…]

MALCOLM MACLAREN AND THE WORLD FAMOUS SUPREME TEAM – “Double Dutch”: One for the heatwave, probably my all-time favourite summer jam. “Hey Ebo! Ebonettes!”[…]

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It’s been an unusual few months for me in music listening terms. I’m normally big on variety, skipping from soul to hip hop to pop to punk to reggae from one moment to the next. However, a kind friend gave me over 500 albums early in the […]

Even MTV who are making Totally Boyband, and Digital Spy don’t seem to have noticed that the phrase “five former boyband members” seems to skate over Bradley S-Club. Poor Rachel, poor Jo, poor Hannah, poor… her, you know.. Tin[…]

Theophrastus, a Greek philosopher and natural scientist, 372 to 287 BCE, retells a legend about wise men who sat under the shade of the banana tree and ate some of its fruit. In the time of the legend the banana plant was given the botanical name tha[…]

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Long ago I edited a comics fanzine called FA. In 1988 a few of us got round a table with Alan Moore and Dave Gibbons for a long discussion about Watchmen. Last month someone put it on the web, and it still looks a pretty good piece to me. Don’t[…]

I wrote a recommendation of the ten best of Marvel’s Essential volumes a long time ago. Finally DC picked up the baton and are putting out similar volumes – over 500 B&W pages of vintage comic reprints on cheap paper for around £11 […]

two christmases ago my mum’s present was the money to buy a nice casserole dish, but the one i chose at john lewis was sold out by the time i went in to get it, and then never in stock — anyway i found it in habitat a month or so back, an[…]