SCARY POST

How about something genuinely scary for Halloween? People seem to regard Kraftwerk as some kind of strange musical anomaly. Their gig in Glasgow that I went to was one of the best I have ever been to. Just listen to the message… And remember… Also, in the haunting bracket tonight we have… Faces along the [...]

LIFE IMITATING ART

Does anyone remember the Young Ones writing a letter to the bank manager to try and get some more money?? So the letter ran thusly… “Darling Fascist Bully-boy Give us some some more money you bastard. May the seed of your loin be fruitful in the belly of your woman. Neil” I was thinking about [...]

WHAT HAVE WE GOT TO GAIN?

Have you ever seen anyone urinate all over the shelves in a supermarket? No? Ok, I will return to that question via the stars. I often ask people if they have seen the milky way. They usually answer yes and they are wrong. You can’t see the thing because we are IN it. The picture [...]

INTERESTING POSSIBLY UNTRUE CRAP FACTS No. 1

This could be a series, be warned! According to the book I just looked at the average man says 2,400 words every day and the average woman 6,800.

DON’T JOIN THE MINISTRY

When I lived in South Korea there was a small scandal around Christmas time. I am not referring to the Americans eating all the food before anyone else got a chance at the foreigners Christmas dinner [though they did] but rather something that went on with the Ministry for Gender Equality. When I first heard [...]

BERT JANSCH

A friend gave me a Bert Jansch album a few years ago. I just loved it. I have been waiting a while for someone to put something of good enough sound quality by him on youtube and someone finally did so here it is. Bert Jansch is music worth having.

NIGHTSHIFT INCIDENT

I have done a bit of night shift work in supermarkets in my life. If you add it all up then probably it would be about 9 months worth. It is quite hard physical work and unbelievably enough some of the workers used to take speed so they could go faster. After the desperate feeling [...]

VATICAN BROADSIDE

Half Man Half Biscuit again… Lyrics The singer out of slipknot went to Rome to see the pope The singer out of slipknot went to Rome to see the pope The singer out of slipknot went to Rome to see the pope and the pope said to his aide… “Who the f*ckin hell are slipknot? [...]

SALT OF THE EARTH

John Pilger frequently says that people  in most of the countries in the world never ask the question ‘What can we do about it?’ when faced with political problems because they already know what to do about it. Similarly, in the past at least, people in the disunited kingdom and the USA and the other [...]

IN HONOUR OF…

In honour of the latest comment to be posted on this site, at time of writing it is the last comment on the post – The A-Z of Nepal part 3 [though it will be second last after the pingback], I have decided to add this article from The Onion to the site… LOCAL IDIOT [...]