The shortlist is a bit disheartening. Simple as that. It makes you wonder if the judges really tried with the longlist or actually just went for the names they knew. The presence of the Ishiguro suggests so (it is a terrible book). Of course if we kn[…]

I saw it from the corner of my eyes, in a story for the premiere issue of vogue:homme America, or what ever they are calling it. Surrounded by the usual, silly badly constructed grotesques the New York art world mistakes for finely crafted historical[…]

German comic which teaches kids how to fight Neo-Nazis, the non-violent way. Such as the following:
In the first edition, Andi and his friends challenge arch-villain Eisenheinrich and his gang, who dress in neo-Nazi clothing, hate foreigners and dist[…]

The Best Painting In Britain.
Looks like a bunch of scribbles that someone spilled a pot of dirty paintwater over to me.[…]

Woman slashes Lichtenstein picture “Nudes In Mirror” in a German Art Gallery. Not due its racy comment mind, and as you can see, it is not exactly the most erotic picture in the world. Rather she knifed it because she thought it was a cop[…]

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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