AIM: To examine whether Beatrix Potter named Ginger and Pickles, her least-known children’s book, after her favourite condiment.
APPARATUS: Chopping board, sharp knife, small bowl
INGREDIENTS: fresh ginger, gherkins.
METHOD: Obviously gherkins[…]

Wherein your intrepid bar-room philosophers wondered if the acceptance of the Welfare State, and the success of a slightly softer socialism that ver hardkore Bolshevik Leninism in the UK was all really due to Tom Brown’s Schoolday’s. In a[…]

The Political Cartoon Gallery scares me. Open for about a year now on Store Street, I am not quite sure how it stays open. Nevertheless if you ever want to be reminded that political cartoons aren’t funny, this is the place for you. It does see[…]

AIM: To see if avocado is nature’s butter (1). If it is, can one scramble eggs in it?
APPARATUS: Frying pan. 4 Eggs. A small avocado.
METHOD: The mashed avocado was smeared on the pan which was then brought to the heat. When the avocado was cle[…]

An addendum to yesterdays NLA post. If you go to the website (or indeed the exhibition) , click on the Changing Face Of London exhibit. Enter, then follow the link to list projects, and finally click on South Central. You get this frank nonsense:
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Store Street has suddenly become arty. There have been a couple of galleries opening – including the Political Cartoon Gallery which confirms that political cartoons HAVE NEVER BEEN FUNNY. But best of all is the New London Architecture exhibit […]

DC Comics have asked the Katherine Cullen Fine Arts Gallery to remove art by Mark Chamberlain that depicts Batman and Robin in homo-erotic situations. Like living together in a big mansion, dressing up in tights and – hold on – that&#8217[…]

There was a brief moment, when the Booker longlist came out, that I thought what it would be like to read them all. It would be a good challenge. Even more challenging considering ONE OF THEM ISN’T EVEN OUT YET (this drum will continue to be ba[…]

while googlin for obscure stuff connected to what mr g.galloway famously called mr c.hitchens recently, i discovered this VERY THOROUGH160-question tintin trivia quiz
plus also it has VERY HARD picture quizzes! viz a tintin flag quiz and a tintin SPL[…]

(reposted from my l1v3j0urn@l)
I like comics in theory. I am very glad I am reading this Summer’s mainstream crop for free, though. It used to be that superhero comics were like summer blockbusters, i.e. Check out this FITE! No check out THIS O[…]