Eating an extremely popular Chinese dish, a certain song by Frank Sinatra (or, more likely, by those two ’60s Irish harmony-singing boyos The Batchelors) always springs to mind. “I wonder why you keep me waiting, […]

Love that entire group of Ellroy novels, with a recurring cast of really crooked cops and highly-ambitious prosecutors, plus the dodgy politics and Hollywood shenanigans of the time. Very engaging reads.

I wouldn’t say they’ve ALWAYS been rubbish, but they didn’t take long to become rubbish. By the start of the ’70s they were on the slide. I like lists of suggested books, movies, TV shows, tracks or albums but I […]

I too come from a family of readers. Both my parents enjoyed a good book and my dad (skilled tradesman in the print industry) taught all 3 of us siblings (older sister, myself and younger brother) to read before […]

Even if Gaiman turns out to be a thoroughly rotten egg, there’s nothing in any of his books that is untoward AFAIK. Therefore, to my mind, the only justification for not reading his stuff would therefore be not […]

Naturellement …

Your last one is a very close relative of a live improvisation recording, on King Crimson’s “THRaKaTTaK” album (of 1995 live concert improvisations). “Mother Hold The Candle Steady While I Shave The Chicken’s […]

Just far enough.

The upstairs restaurant seats sold out ages ago, but there are still some downstairs standing tickets left, I think.

If it hadn’a bin for them pesky kids …

I’ve found, like on Twitter when it was worth being on, you need to be careful not to follow too many others (or you won’t be able to find the stuff from the posters whose input you particularly value, amongst all […]

Not a great deal you can do about it with lots of decks, if they’re running a tiny bit fast. AC motors rely on mains frequency, which can vary ever so slightly.

I’ve read (and very much enjoyed) the entire series and currently have eight of them on my Kindle, so I’ll be giving this bargain a miss.

Not speed, obviously..

Our only ACTUAL connections with the USA are the English language (tenuously) and the music that Americans stole from slaves but think was created solely by them.

Buster Poindexter. R.I.P. . The video appears to have nothing whatsoever to do with the music.

There are phone apps available, for both Android and Apple. Both of these are customer-rated as accurate if used correctly. They work using the built-in gyroscope that modern smartphones have.

Who’s to say that a hypothetical future President Vance wouldn’t get a sniper’s bullet too?

Yes. I read the AW’s group and a couple of other moderated FB groups. Twat-free FB experiences are to be had when groups are sensibly moderated. I also use Social Fixer for Facebook which, despite being […]