I just received the above from my friend, John Mendelsohn (Christopher Milk, Sparks, critic on Rolling Stone). John wrote and performed My Country Tortured, a haunting song about the realisation of what America did under the Bush administration. Another excellent track is The Afghanistan Song by Superbia, a two-man outfit I met at the St […]
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Of all the things in the world and beyond that could be named after this blog’s author, I never imagined it would be drugs. (“Oh yes you did,” says Evil Self. “And you love it.”) “Miaow” is a plant food sold on the internet but newly discovered as having some sort of inebriant qualities. I’ve
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Remember “Yo, Blair!”? I was going to bring you video footage of a graphic novel launch on Sunday at the ICA where German comics star Reinhard Kleist brought out his first English language book, Johnny Cash: I See A Darkness, but battles with my new Final Cut Express 4 and a stupid new iMovie version
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Waiter, there’s a tramp in my soap. Oh, what price will we pay for beauty? I read gruesome news from Peru where a team of serial killers, who probably smoked too much crack while watching Fight Club, have nicked (or influenced) Tyler Durden’s macabre business plan, harvested the fat from scores of victims over the past
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Unforeseen design problems on one of London’s bridges … or was it? I’m checking out Blackfriars Bridge toot sweet. They hang mobsters there. Does that make this a well hung bridge? Thanks to Claire for this. (Trust you. Arf!) How’s that for a superior architectural nob gag? UPDATE: I should have realised that this motif
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Sergeant Howie Rest In Peace. The man with the legendary name said to resemble a fart in the bath will cut capers no more. Edward Woodward, star of The Wicker Man and The Equalizer, has died in Cornwall aged 79. Woodward did English neurosis better than most even though his best-known film role was the sexually
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