Quiet here today innit? However I’m writing like mad about music in lots of other places: Popular inches on and I’ve been writing about songs which may or may not be about London at Blog Seven (our new ‘thing’). I’ve als[…]

The Quill
Tom’s blog took me back to my Spectrum childhood. I can see the overlap appeal of RPG and adventure based computer games (I was a Level 9 aficionado) but to me they were entirely separate entities. Sit me in front of a screen and I wo[…]

It appears there is nothing The Onion likes more than summer movie season.
MOVIE PRAISED FOR NOT BEING AS BAD AS IT COULD BE
I still think it will be a touchstone of badness by the time the year is over, but I am open to the idea that it might only b[…]

How interested are artists in art? I would venture that a lot of them are not all that interested at all. After all, if you are constantly dragging round the galleries you won’t have time for your own work, and what about all those dangerous id[…]

My 1973 birthdate put me right on the frontline of the most revolutionary development in kids’ leisure time since TV had been invented. Arcade games started appearing in the UK in 1978, and two or three years later home computer games machines […]

VANISHING LONDON
2: The bit of road on the north side of Trafalgar Square
This did not get nicked overnight. Instead the Mayor put in place a long and some say tedious process to turn London’s squarest roundabout into – his words – […]

I am thinking about my favourite action movies because Midnight Run is on TV, clashing with No Man’s Land a Bosnian favourite from a few years back. But I will watch Midnight Run, because it is more fun than the BBC2 satire, and it has a very […]

The ubiquitous Banksy strikes again
not entirely sure who he’s striking agaist, we’ve always known that judges dress like this under their robes haven’t we? ooh, get you![…]

“Don’t play with your food!”
This stern injunction has blighted many a child’s teatime as a project for turning sausage and mash into a happy face is scuppered midway. Surely parents remember that playing with food is usually […]

EGGS BACON CHIPS AND BEANS: a blog stumbled across whilst searching for a decent café or coffee house for a non-alcoholic central London meetup. An absolutely SMASHING little blog filled of delicious pictures of fry-ups and great reviews. READ IT NO[…]