Sentimentalist: a new column by me, for Pitchfork Media. The first one talks about music hall, audiences and singers, and expands on a couple of ideas from the Beatles entries in Popular.[…]

“I take my hat right off to the busker man”
There are two ways of viewing this lyric by unambitious bottom-feeders The View. (more…)[…]

Post Lollardry, the brief moment of inspiration re the anti-euphemism of Pigs In Blankets got some of our listeners texting in angrily. Namely that my pig in batter version was shot down in flames. So further scientific research happily proves that e[…]

This is apparently a limited edition of Guinness Marmite (or is that “Marmite – Guinness”?) available from 19 Feb 2007. Your exercise, dear reader, is to guess the Target Demographic. I personally have no idea.
Exercise 2: what do y[…]

One of the top reads on the interwebs lately has been The Diary Of Ralph Dibny, even though it’s completely incomprehensible if you’re not a comics fan who’s been reading DC’s 52 series. The conceit of the comic is that it tel[…]

Fantastic Four #225 – “The Blind God’s Tears”
Published: 1980
Creative Team: Doug Moench and Bill Sienkiewicz
Summary: The team have found themselves in a strange crystal biosphere, somewhere in the Arctic Circle, where a ra[…]

icanhascheezburger.com lolcats with tags for your convenience, all categorised and everything in a blog-a-day.[…]

in-depth socio-cultural analysis is required of what large lorries do and say when backing up viz:
i. beeping (common) (as muck)
ii. “ATTENTION! This VE-HICLE is reVARSING!” (i hear this most weeks in hackney, but have not yet seen the lo[…]

FT hasn’t entirely retired its cutting-edge pop reporting (*cough*), but we’re perhaps getting slow in our old age. So feel free to find out more about Margaret Berger from older posts on say Dirrrtypop or Popjustice. Summary:
* “ru[…]

CRACKER from the Forbidden City, Beijing. Host Eli, guests Pete, Mark, Alix. Chinese New Year, Agatha and zippers, Dr Pub and tipping, War Pigs – Some Estonians, a cheerful poetry for food, ban ban – some of cabanos, UK sit-coms redone in the states, Cobrastyle/Cobrastyle/Cobrastyle, Dana Kurtz – Love gets in the way.