“The horror….the horror….”. Five of us set out on Operation: Blue Posts. And it must be said that five returned, though with Magnus it was a close thing. It has long been a contention of mine that the pub conversation is manki[…]

Bye Bye Select: Select has, of course, been crap for years. But I know that for a few of the people reading this it was something of a bible during its early-90s heyday, with endless articles about how great Julian Cope was, genuinely witty features,[…]

The Blue Posts Pub Crawl – a bit like climbing Everest. I would imagine that there will be much discussion on this most successful of events round this publog in the next week or so (plus the plans for us to to retake this summit) – but f[…]

I think that with the Madonna / producer farago below,my original thesis has been more or less proved. That being able to name the producer of Justify My Love cold on a live radio quiz (“this was not a phone in if you know the answer” job[…]

Firstly Ally, my apologies. I had assumed that Lenny co-wrote “Justify My Love” but that Shep had produced it. Actually that explains the use of the breakbeat (the same one as on My Bloody Valentine’s “Instrumental” &#82[…]

I don’t know how I missed it earlier, but I’ve decided it’s high time to clear up a misconception placed on this very webpage on November 27th. I normally wouldn’t care, except that this misconception has run so rampant around[…]

Condolences to the Kempa family: chriskempa.com. This would be why our beloved kempa.com is down.[…]

Here’s something that’s been worrying me lately: how on Earth do teetotal people ever get off with anyone? To illustrate this, in the pub last night I saw two couples.* One was sharing a bottle of wine – her face was lively, nay a l[…]

Lager and lime is nice. There, I said it. It tastes nice when you’re in a lazy mood. It makes the most acrid of ‘cooking lagers’ slip down like a dream. And furthermore, being a girl, I am allowed to have it. But, being a girl in a […]

The quality of ibuprofen is not strained, it droppeth as the gentle rain from heaven upon the place beneath. It blesseth him that gives and him that takes…
And yes, I fear that I may be him that takes this week. In fact, I have been him that ta[…]