Spiral Jetty cleanup: Utah officials last month removed several tons of junk from Rozel Point, the area along the Great Salt Lake’s north shore that is home to Robert Smithson’s Spiral Jetty.   “Anyone who has made the trip to see[…]

What do you think of when someone says Isabel Allende? The House Of The Spirits? Nice solid family saga type storytelling? Eva Luna?
Zorro?
I know. That’s why I picked it up at the library. What was Isabel Allende doing writing something calle[…]

From Never Had It So Good by Dominic Sandbrook:
“The writer Peter Vansittart recalled an appearance by [Colin] Wilson at the ICA, where he announced: ‘Man’s enemies are herd-values, triviality, the weight of mental inertia, stale id[…]

Marvel’s 1985 photo-comic – ‘incredibly innovative’, costs 1xmillion dollars to make, etc. etc. – looks like screenshots from knock-off survival horror game. Oh dear.[…]

apawboy has been ventin his ire recently at the collapse into total useless blah of the words “icon” and “iconic” (see all over his blog for absurd examples): while time-killin in soho on tue afternoon, i gazed for a while int[…]

– OMG it’s Murray Lachlan Young
– how the FUCK has he got a full-length story on BBC News?
– WTF he is married to ZOE???
– “Tea With The Taleban”, yes that sounds like him all right
– god, weren’t[…]

BBC Talking Point, long your #1 destination for knee-jerking and button-pushing, has recently redesigned and now has a ‘recommendations’ system on replies, whereby you can click on “most recommended” and see the viewer comment[…]

during the who’s-most-famous competition, the GG, in a huff bcz barrymore and rodman merely ASSUMED top slot wz between them, muttered: “If it’s worldwide, I’m the most famous. Virtually every Muslim in the world, which is one[…]

can i just be the first to note we have a new ROLEPLAY AVATAR (to add to the bez, the xander, the julia lennon etc)
viz the “GG”, whose presence totally juices up the guilty-pleasures crowd* by “validating” the object-at-issu[…]

Jonathan Meades’ show last night on Stalin and Architecture was so annoying. It promised to be a welcome exposition on a often-derided subject that’s generally dismissed glibly in one fell swoop.
But that’s not what we got. It was[…]