January 2012
10 posts
Disco Inferno: An oral history of the British... →
The most underrated band of an entire generation get a five-page article in Pitchfork - that must be almost unheard of, surely? - written by Ned Raggett, who has championed Disco Inferno for as long as I can remember (and selflessly distributed the CD-Rs of the long-deleted five EPS he writes about here, for a decade or so, before they finally received an official re-release). More than just about...
“Without a shadow of doubt Trafalgar Square has to be one of the most crap urban...”
– Will Self: why I hate London’s Trafalgar Square
Soviet ‘Peace with the USA’ posters, 1980s →
Perhaps it was a deliberate but subtle snub - it seems that to celebrate ‘peace with the USA’, the Russians produced childlike, almost amateurish, poster art; a stark contrast to the famed propaganda posters of the Soviet era.
Twitter Has Killed My Social Skills, But I Love It... →
Murdoch and Twitter, sitting in a tree,... →
In short, I think Rupert Murdoch is buying Twitter. And I am never* wrong.
*=occasionally, verging on often, within spitting distance of always.
