Serendipity in the West Midlands
The discovery of art in the provinces is my 2005 ambition. Fuelled by finding a gallery devoted to GF Watts in a small Surrey village, I’ve started looking elsewhere for small-town galleries. So I went to Walsal[…]

Credit where credits due.
Apparently I was quoted in The Times on Saturday (a dull tedious work thing). But they spelt my name wrong. Of course this is a nice way of discrediting the august paper of record for not fact checking (and I did spell my na[…]

Slaine The King
Music Zone (there’s one on Oxford Street) is having a sale, and I picked up this nice hardback comic album for under a fiver (they also have the complete Halo Jones at the same price, among many other things, lots of Judge Dredd[…]

Homeless.
Diaspora, Refugee, Homeless–the ideas are abstractions, even the concept of palestine is an abstraction–so that to talk about them, it becomes a dystopian non oz. Reading it, one forgets the ironies, the complexities, and the ve[…]

UNDER THE LOVING CARE OF OUR FATHERLY LEADER
by Bradley K. Martin
You gotta love the title. I mentioned it to my dad and he said, “Sounds like something from North Korea” — which in fact it is. Martin’s huge-as-heck book is […]

Condensed Comics #1
Superman’s Girlfriend Lois Lane 106
Bah! Who has TIME to read a WHOLE COMIC nowadays? Far better just to get the whole story in a handful of panels — like those PILLS which contain an ENTIRE MEAL!
The Problem:

The Sol[…]

the fine art of the CEASE AND DESIST letter
small websites ARE occasionally targetted by lawyerly types unbothered by the actual real reality of the law, for purposes of intimidation[…]

I was recommended this by Luna of ILX, and when I started reading I feared it was going to be unbearable: right from the start, the very first sentence, the fact that he is trying to write as exactly like Wodehouse as he can is very overt. This is a […]

“In the lands of the North…
… where the Black Rocks stand guard against the cold sea, in the dark night that is very long the Men of the Northlands sit by their great log fires and they tell a tale…”
(haha the Top 100 […]

Schorr Sheer
(where i blather about the hi art potential of hair cuts)
I bought the March Details for the interview w. Kevin Federline, b/c I love Britney and want her to be happy. Its a well designed magazine, but the best feature was a v. small fot[…]