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Thursday, October 13, 2005

The Planet May

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Was amused by literary high-flyer Blake Morrison’s little essay in The Guardian about discovering the other Blake Morrison, a US author wit...
Wednesday, October 12, 2005

Karma and Commerce

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Music and money are always trouble, the music business being littered with tales of crookedness, chicanery and underhanded behaviour. Two st...
Tuesday, October 11, 2005

Deconstructing Dylan

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'Dylan Lexigraph' is a digital print on canvas by Brighton-based artist Mike Edwards. Lexigraphs are literally 'word portraits...
Monday, September 19, 2005

Poem: A Journalist's Death of Socrates

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Yo lo vi And so we saw The fragile sinews Of his neck grow taut The muscles there Flicker and contract Did he sip or gulp Would sipping Ex...

A DAY OUT IN LONDON

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On the bus from Victoria, going past Trafalgar Square and the light flashed off the head of Marc Quinn's extraordinary statue, which had...
Sunday, September 11, 2005

Great Gigs I Have Seen

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It has long been a plan of mine to try and list all of the major gigs and concerts I have seen in my life - just as a memory exercise if not...

THE LOST DYLAN PHOTOS

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Finding a 'lost' set of Bob Dylan pics is like discovering the Holy Grail - in a way. Such was my luck in discovering the wor...

Adventures In Hyper-Reality (3): Pete Culshaw

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Bush Sr and Jr visit New Orleans Original source: Dvorak Uncensored : The Personal Weblog of John C. Dvorak

The God of Hellfire in Residence

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From time to time, chez nous functions as the Beat Hotel (excellent views and rates; as much olive oil as you can eat) and it has been a gr...
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Sunday, August 28, 2005

What the Dormouse Said: Counter-Culture and Computing

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This image of the very first mouse, conceived by Doug Engelbart, taken from the chronological history on the site of The Bootstrap Institute...
Tuesday, August 23, 2005

Douglas Adams: A Carbon-Based Bipedal Life Form

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Douglas Adams: The Star of Broadcasting House 12 August 1982. Photo by John May First publication You might well ask what Douglas Adams is d...
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Dying To Win

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What follows is an extract from 'The Logic of Suicide Terrorism' by Scott McConnell, published in the American Conservative magazin...

Elephants Can Mimic Sounds

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Calimero, a male African elephant in a zoo, has learned to imitate the sounds made by female Asian elephants he was housed with. (Photo by A...
Wednesday, August 17, 2005

Arundhati Roy: Kashmir & The War on Terror

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Arundhati Roy is one of the bravest and brightest writers on the planet. She has consistently and courageously spoke out in India and abroad...
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Sunday, August 14, 2005

Inside Dope by Dick Tracy

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The first coffee shop or 'tea house' as it was then known was opened in Amsterdam in 1972 by Wernard Bruining and friends. at Weesp...

Adventures In Hyper-Reality (2): Pete Culshaw

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Message on Notting Hill Gate tube station, London. 26 July 2005 Message reads: ' Please do not run on the platforms or concourses. Esp...

This Enchanted Isle: The Neo-Romantic Vision

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There’s a book that’s been haunting my imagination off and on since I first read it some years ago and, not for the first time, I pulled it ...
Monday, August 08, 2005

Cocaine Pollution

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According to a report in 'Nature' : The 5 million people living around Italy's largest river consume 200,000 lines of cocaine a ...

The Poetry Olympics Twenty05 - Wholly Communion Renewed

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The Poetry Olympics celebrates Three Birthdays with a Jamboree of stellar performances at the Royal Albert Hall On September 25th, the Royal...

Jeff Nuttall: Bomb Culture and Beyond

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Jeff Nuttall at the Chelsea Arts Club on 4th November 1985. Photo by Ed Barber (Copyright Reserved) First publication Jeff Nuttall was the f...