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.

This is a snapper stew from Martinique: Sophie Grigson who i stealed it from spells it w/o the exclamation mark but — tho daughter of POET she be – – she is clearly WRONG, as proven by Bopkids Lollardry heretofore. Can be served wi[…]

Watching the Brit Awards on Wednesday brought to mind the theory of (yes, you guessed right) Reverse Evolution…
 
It can ony be a matter of time before we are ALL lemurs…[…]

Simon over at xrrf (that’s “no rock and roll fun” to the uninitiated, the only music news feed you rly need) has a problem, and now so do I.
It started quite innocently last Friday, Noel Gallagher was bibbling on about something and[…]

Ha! In yr face Second Life!
Discussion of this story in the office made me realise why SL, as an interweb community, suXoR even beyond the hype, slowness, lack of a decent combat system etc. IT HAS NO LURKERS. ILX gets 20k viewers per day (not claimi[…]

The sense of ritual, the anticipation of pain—yes and yes. But also those crufty issues of Popular Mechanics and People magazine from god knows when. Even the logos looks oddly dated. Can they really be that old? Yes again.

So in The Mother, Anne Reid plays a woman in her late fifties, visiting her daughter in London who falls in love with her boyfriend and has Teh Sex with him. He is a bit hairy and not at all as attractive as Daniel Craig these days. But it was hailed[…]

One of my favourite old bits of FT was Funny Folk, Al Ewing’s take on the New Yorker cartoons, which adequately speared the obvious: namely that New Yorker cartoons not only stated the obvious, they stated the obvious five years after anyone el[…]

Since mean-spriritedness is in the air (not here obv, but in other places and of course on the emo kid / indie kid / Tanya Pink Floyd articles) I thought I would respond to Alan’s continuation to the Digg 9 Things The non-tech savvy do to&#8230[…]

Johnny Halliday to change nationality.
Where will the cheap jokes about French rock come from now? Can we expect a New Beat album?[…]