My German Poem
This is offered
i) In a spirit of vague solidarity with the Save The Jolly German campaign.
ii) As an example of the uselessness of our educational system/my brain, it being all I can remember from my German GCSE (an A grade at that!).[…]

Fat Man Campaign Update
– 53 people have signed the petition so far, a groundswell of popular opinion we are confident will prove impossible for the martinets at Tadcaster to ignore.
– We are writing to the mayor of Aying, the small town […]

A small crumb of good news: Hi-I’m-Wes to leave R1, mind you the replacements don’t look much of an improvement.[…]

Cecil Taylor and Anthony Braxton
I’d never been to a jazz gig in my life. I’d never listened to much free jazz, or got into it at all. My friend Andrew wanted to go to this gig, part of the London Jazz Festival at the Royal Festival Hall,[…]

Platform by Michel Houellebecq
He seems to have become a fashionable writer, but I hadn’t read him before this. I didn’t like it. He’s a clever man, and he expresses his ideas with clarity and force – but he does so by creatin[…]

The Tarquin Records All Stars – Do They Know It’s Christmas?
Okay, I haven’t heard the new version of DTKIC?, but all the talk has inspired me!…This is my all time favourite version of the song, recorded way back in 1997. It f[…]

Frocks
Frocks was always a nice caf’. Dark wooded with squeezy condiment bottles. Not a greasy spoon but neither was it poncy. The Observer and the News of the World sat cheek by jowl and the working class tucked their dirty shirts in. There wa[…]

BANDAID 20, first impressions*
What a mess! What a real mess! It sounds like a sixth form jam session. They’ve dispensed with the need for a drum track, replaced the “whur-ur-uh” noises with some sort of nasty synth line, bongo m[…]

I went shopping at the new flagship H&M at Yonge/Dundas sqaure today, and they were selling mens underwear, in the exact pattern as one of Sol LeWitt’s Star Wall Drawings–the five pointed ones, not the six or seven pointed ones. ( ex[…]

Ol’ Dirty Bastard and John Balance, RIP
Not that much connects them in an immediate sense. Seemingly the only reason to think of them both off-hand would simply appear to be the accidental timing of their deaths on Saturday. ODB = famous, sco[…]