Just a Bild of fun
Awful rubbish from Bild notable for the ‘sexologist’s rather sly claim:
According to German newspaper Bild sexologist Piero Lorenzoni said: “A woman’s breasts denote a woman’s character, just like her […]

Top five things in galleries to go and see for free in London right now (in reverse order)
5. Henrik Plenge Jacobsen: “J’accuse” at the South London Gallery
HPJ is really saying something in this exhibition, something about justice[…]

1968 – Mark Kurlansky
Mass-market history reaches the recent past, and faces a stylistic problem. The genre tends to a gentle narrative style, rich with curios and always willing to take the occasional detour. But widen the focus and the narrat[…]

POPNOSE MP3 OF THE WEEK
3. Gemini – “Just Like That”
Sounds a bit like a late ABBA song? That’s because it is – recorded for ABBA’s never-finished 10th album, the original has slipped out in various mixes on bootle[…]

Scatology Alert
Japanese firm invent in toilet entertainment centre.
But hold: closer reading suggests that Toto Ltd’s Z Series Neorest offers the worlds first autofragrance and stereo music system. Okay so it my be more advances than my versio[…]

I expected M*A*S*H (the book) to be like a poor man’s Catch-22, and indeed it is. However that poor man will finish it a lot quicker, be able to read good, hearty, storyful chunks of it on the crapper AND be acquainted with the madness of war. […]

Day 22: Miami
AROUND THE WORLD IN 80 LOUSY TUNES
(Sorry for the delay: this Herculean outpouring required a Herculean actual pouring of gin. Fear not though dear reader as I expect another straight twenty days or so to be recounted over the next mont[…]

Head-On is the best film I have seen this calendar year*. Even if it is not the tale of some grumpy London music hater (who I understand is restarting her tale of her mammoth global circumnavigation via music hatred this afternoon). Instead it is one[…]

—there might be evil in the world, and human beings are destructive motherfuckers and there is not much we can do about that…But sometimes the dust settles, and even if it affects everything, even if it is in the dust and the air we breat[…]

“that now I do not like to think of maggots in his eyes”
hopkin greenfrog and i argued abt betjeman in the comments to this post, and tim asked “Did he ever liked anything modernist (art lit music architecture whatever)”? So […]