Musings of the Night (Free subscription) | 07/03/2008
Tonight is a cold March night, hopefully the last of what has been a very long winter. The sun was out today thankfully and the whisper of spring is on the air. Today I drove by the lake and realized just how much I miss sitting by it even in winter. Alas this winter has [...]
YAYsports! NBA (Free subscription) | 05/03/2008
(Jack Cobra with a surprise attack on Wednesday night. That's a picture of The Cavalier, have you seen him') I used to play “Where in the World is Carmen Sandiego” for hours at a time when I was little. It helped me understand that European countries are filled with dirty people and that women will lead [...]
The Telegraph (Free subscription) | 02/03/2008
The Wasps player is out of favour as far as England goes. Paul Ackford assesses three possible reasons as to his omission from Brian Ashton's squad.
GingaTao! (Free subscription) | 01/03/2008
(or, “How funky is the old dude in his purple suit”) I always buy “The Big Issue” if I have a fiver to spare, not so much cos the writing is usually good and its helping them help blahdiddy blah, but because I know eventually I’ll be selling them and I’m hoping I run into myself, [...]
prefixmag.com (Free subscription) | 28/02/2008
Hot Chip's third album Made in the Dark could have easily been titled after its dance floor-friendly single "Ready for ...
Ramdom Thoughts podcast (Free subscription) | 22/02/2008
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UK Commentators (Free subscription) | 17/11/2007
But irresistible. I found the toytown synth and nagging hook line of Lipps Inc's "Funkytown", which I've not heard for 25 years, at the top of my consciousness a couple of nights back. The kids are singing it now. The great glory of youtube is that pretty much anything from the last 30 years is there. Alas it gets barer as you go back - not much Conchita Supervia or Rutland Boughton about. The next...
The Arts blog (Free subscription) | 10/08/2007
Ronald Bergan: Truffaut said that the advent of colour did as much damage to cinema as television. I'm inclined to agree. What do you think?
