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I had a couple of years of ‘freelancing’ at the beginning of the 90s. When I left the first job I had a secretary with a typewriter, when I started the next I had an assistant with a computer.

You’ll be thinking of Penguin, but actually paperbacks appeared long before that. Routledge’s Railway Library of paperbacks started in 1848 and ran until 1899.

Tauchnitz, a German firm, started their […]

Two-hitter actually.

Phew! Thought you’d lost interest…

Whoever heard of a slide trombone in a county jail? You could put somebody’s eye out with it. Come to that, whoever heard of a wooden chair in a county jail? They’d only get broken over jailbirds’ heads.

That […]

Too many to mention, but I’m fond of One-Eyed Jacks, a bit of an oddity…it was the only film that Brando directed, and a lot of it is set on the California coast around Monterey rather than in Monument Valley. […]

The ukulele, obviously.

Do you smoke after sex?

Don’t know, I’ve never looked.

Etc.

Me too – in fact it might have been me, I was an early adopter as they say. With the exception of Private Eye, still pursuing its fogeyish print-only path, I haven’t bought a paper magazine for years.

‘The Uncut crossword is easier than the Mojo one’ – Afterword t-shirt.

I did not know that, never even thought to wonder.

Talking of Waitrose, my local branch has refurbed its cafe and renamed it Waite and Rose. Too SW3 for words.

Farage would probably say the Band of the Grenadier Guards, while secretly grooving at home to the Horst Wessel Song.

Woman at War is rentable on iTunes, Amazon and various other places. Definite must-watch.

Wives and large collections of old magazines don’t mix, I’ve found.

Another Zigzagger here – terrific mag. I have the first 20 or so issues until not so long ago, and then they went in one of the clearouts – sold them on eBay IIRC. A rather rambling tribute to the mag and Pete […]

A couple I had high hopes of…Gypsy (the UK lot). Played their first album to death.

And Gin House, a bunch of larrikins from Newcastle, who won a battle of the bands thing and got to make an album at Abbey […]

It seems to me that nobody has to resign any more.

I listen to a lot of soundtracks. There are several kinds…there are those that are essentially compilations, probably starting with American Graffiti. There are those that become forever identified with a hit […]