You’ll have to forgive me for being in a rigidly literal frame of mind, but when I hear cab dispatcher Ben Gibbard offer this couplet to the kids of America:
‘So this is the new year / And I don’t feel any different’
‘ I[…]

Scientists have found a new form of matter. Marvellous! What? Bose-Einstein condensate what? I thought there were only solid liquid gas and plasma. They’re busy at it aren’t they those scientists?[…]

Footballers Wive$ back on your ITV screens Wednesday 11 February. Can’t wait? Then try Footballers Wive$ fan fiction! (So I don’t have to).[…]

Pop Life Blog: lots of very good stuff here! Derek was it you who works at a certain West-Central London second-hand chain and wrote to FT a while ago? If so I am very very sorry for not replying, no excuses, I am just rubbish with email. Anyway read[…]

Last night for the first time in my life I had one of those going-out-without-trousers dreams, an absolutely standard part of the dream lexicon but one that had not troubled me. I can only put it down to all the discussion on critical authority that […]

Popnose: let’s try that again, shall we… (now with actual new tracks!)[…]

Pretty much as soon as the blizzard started (w/thunder and everything) one of our rabbits started going mental – she was darting about, bashing her hutch-mate and making the loudest growls I’ve ever heard from her, echoing snarling yelps […]

Poptimism: an unexpected ally!! (If it is him – he doesn’t seem terribly optimistic here anyhow)[…]

For my wedding present Mike Daddino very very kindly gave me a massive folder of CD-Rs, full of MP3s. Among them were every MP3 he’d managed to track down (as of 2001 or so) from the Appendices of Simon Reynolds‘ Energy Flash. I’ve […]

The Brown Wedge helps with your comic education with Ivan Brunetti’s 22 Panels That Always Work, an instructive how to piece. Admittedly that one has a bit of a tongue it is cheek. This is possibly more useful, Wally Wood’s version of the[…]