Rock and Roll High School
Why in the last couple of years has America licked the wounds of Columbine, why have all the queers, dope freaks, outsiders, and lonely little adult boys decided that the proper thing to do is to make films about kids killi[…]

LESS ART MORE GOFFS: aka the new Gene Wolfe book is out on 1 January 2003. I mention this as part of my charity shop HAUL this lunchtime where I spent ‘7.50 on what must have been (ulp) fifteen books. To be fair they were only 50 English Pence […]

Impromptu art sightings #3: winning the mark s Poetic English As She Better Be Spake prize, combining elegant symmetry and bold semantic-grammatical precision, the phrase “this has to have been being filmed” in Tim’s post immediatel[…]

Impromptu art sightings #2: alighting at Charing Cross Station (or possibly Victoria) I wandered through the barriers and out into the world. Standing there was a young woman holding a cardboard sign like a taxi driver at an airport. What was written[…]

Impromptu Art sighting. The time: 11:35pm. The date 14/10/03. The place: The pavement outside the Virgin megastore exit of Tottenham Court Road tube station. Observed three fake leopardskin furry paving slabs, three dalmatian furry paving slabs, in a[…]

New Reading: hurrah hurrah, book #2 about Byron being a vampire done and dusted. Grebt stuff, must find more. Perhaps I mite even read some Byron – so far I’ve gathered he was Pale and Interesting and made Lady C. Lamb go MENKO and dress […]

Sentences you never expected to read #3984: “I say, Tom,” cried East, having hit on a new idea, “don’t you remember, when we were in the upper fourth, and old Momus caught me construing off the leaf of a crib which I’d t[…]

Maureen Gallace paints the things that are mocked as kitsch: lighthouses, fall foliage, barns, fields, sea breaks and rivers; all in a rigid, simple style. Almost a new Gramma Moses, w/o the sentimentality about naivety or age.
I know which critical[…]

is it art? or sport? or telly?[…]

A mention of nipples in BBC2’s otherwise pointless Grumpy Old Men show brings back a story that relates to a posting I recently made on Proven By Science, about losing touch with reality. Back in the ’60s a Marvel comic editor had a go at[…]