Silly Picassos and the Nature of the Market
What could you have bought if you wanted to spend a $104,168,000
at the auctions this season:
*A loose, easy and chaotic, very early ink drawing by Phillip Guston, from a period that is vastly under valued […]

What a difference 50p makes. Both venues for Club Popular have been notable for their ‘3 pints. A sad state of affairs, but not as sad as what it precipitates. Yes, there have always been round welchers who slip their drinks in between rounds, […]

Club Popular was by most accounts a triumph, despite early jitters caused by the look of disbelief on The Chapel owner’s face when Al Martino started bellowing out across his boozer. A sequel is likely, but the next club night will most likely […]

(This entry gives away the entire twist in the film Secret Window, partially as a warning to anyone who may go to see it. It is spoiled already people, this is a service)
One of the notable symptoms of split personality disorder, that does not happen[…]

The Smash Hits Charts, Saturday 8th May. TheFit But You Know It video is on. In pretty much every scene Mike Skinner or associated crowd are drinking. But what are they drinking. Well its quite hard to say because all the cans and bottles are blurred[…]

TANYA’S ROUND OF RUBBISH
Bitter Sweet Symphony – The Verve
It is ironic that the drink spoiled (spilled, what with Ashcroft bumping into people so often) in this song is bitter. If I was to associate any kind of drink with the anally retr[…]

364,417 words: That’s the sum total of my blogging output, a genuinely disturbing (for me) number. It’s more than the guy who co-founded Blogger. (And that’s not counting stuff done under pseudonyms, ahem.)
That has nothing to do wi[…]

I did the Retro Bar Quiz last night and got the worst score I have ever managed there. It was a Eurovision special (I seem to recall going to the one last year too) and for the first time ever it was a 2-sheet answer form because every question (20 o[…]

Pleasant surprise of the day! The gentle and effective flute part on Morrissey’s “I’m Not Sorry”. The rest of the record is a bit weak – it works fairly well as an executive summary of the Morrissey Brand, I suppose. The[…]

HOW DO YOU EAT YOURS?
You have some sweets, let us say skittles. Do you:
a. Eat them at random?
b. Eat one of each colour at a time, letting colours run out?
c. Sort them and eat selectively to get an identical number of sweets of each colour, then e[…]