Spamwatch: the FT email accounts are still getting lots of boring old African dictators but an exciting new trend on the horizon is the garbled subject spam. First off Rayad Corkhill mails me to say “YFggh GGet a huge dink dxxr”, then it&[…]

As in a meal, so in our cookery course, the bahjis were only a starter. This week we moved onto our first curry, with basmati rice. Now I didn’t actually pay any attention while CB made the rice (it was supposed to be collaborative, but my onio[…]

“ROCK AND ROLL is the spearhead of our attack because it is so effective and so much fun.”
– John Sinclair, revolutionary and manager of The MC5, November 1968 from the first ‘White Panther Statement’.
No matter how or what you choose t[…]

We love Perry here at the publog, partially due to the wallop it packs alcoholically but also its relative scarcity. Until now it seems. Ladies and gentlemen, but mainly ladies because yet again its mo’bouze aimed at you, I give you : Kitsch. T[…]

Viz Comic availible in pubs for ‘1 with purchase of a pint. Note that is purchase of a pint, not a bottle of Newcastle Brown. Or a eight pack of Ace. Or a three litre bottle of Tasha Slapper’s fave White Lightning. It is marketing synerg[…]

Decadence alert: following the Nintendo price cut Isabel and I are now a two-console family. I feel a bit guilty about buying a GameCube even at its current steal of a price (cheaper than the GBA even!) – and not just because I already have a P[…]

Down East Dulwich way, everyone’s talking about the Sea Cow, part of the ongoing gentri-restaurantification of Lordship Lane. The Sea Cow is a chip shop with attached eating area. But it’s a decidedly posh version of a chippy: at the fron[…]

“You’ve just made me blow up the university and most of the Bohemian Quarter!” “But Anna, you are only playing minesweeper.”
This is a cry for help, I fear for my sanity and I really need to know if anyone else does this[…]

What is happening to my mouth?
How can drinking a combination of Jack Daniels and coke and vodka and orange make the foam turn purple in your mouth when you brush your teeth the next day? I didn’t even touch Kat’s weird drink with Dr Pepp[…]

Is Big Beautiful? Sometimes. I was wondering the other night as I attempted to get all the way through another pizza from La Porchetta.* The question I would like to pose here is how do you feel when you leave leftovers on your plate in a restaurant.[…]