I remember being a bit taken aback when I found out that rather than having just stepped off the 3:10 to Yuma, JT Edson was actually from just outside Melton Mowbray.

See also: Heinz Beans and Bacon Burgers.

Can you still get Wrigley’s PK chewing gum? And what did PK stand for anyway?

“These phenomena multiply exponentially from out of nowhere, don’t they? So quick, you can almost see them happening in real time.”

That’s so true. Just a couple of nights ago, I bumped into a video of s […]

Indeed. I’ve lost count of the number of times I’ve considered subscribing only to back away in alarm when I’ve discovered how much it costs.

Mercury Rev’s Deserter’s Songs, particularly the instrumental version, always sounded very Floydy to me.

I think the video must have been sped up – it looks like one of the Keystone Kops playing bass.

Rough Trade has them – https://www.roughtrade.com/gb/s/genre/krautrock/label/bear-family?_=1609950919268

I worked on a book a few years back that used a few Sting quotes at the beginning of some of the chapters. We had been assured that the writer knew that it was his responsibility to get permission for these, so […]

Naff is still in everyday use at my in-laws.

See also: coloured.

I remember a very similar Scrabble scene in Man about the House.

My only follower on Instagram is Mark Eitzel. Despite having had an account for several years now, I am yet to make a post.

I think you’ve got your Wilsons in a muddle there – 71st best album of the year Dixie Blur is by *Jonathan* Wilson.

Great stuff. And very exciting to see a Westone Thunder out in the wild.

7.6 Tsavo
7.7 Treetops (?)
13.3 is a Patrick O’Brian one…

7.10 Happy Valley
13.9 Nurse Ratched
15.2 The invisible worm that flies in the night

And farewell too to virtuoso violinist Ivry Gitlis, best known to most of us here, I suspect, for his appearance in The Rolling Stones Rock and Roll Circus, performing Whole Lotta Yoko with Yoko Ono and The Dirty Mac.

Which is/was referred to in Australia as the Bosie, I believe.

I saw him in a local village hall a few years ago. He was great and the icing on the cake of what was an entirely Dibley-esque evening was winning a pack of pot pourri in the raffle at the interval.

Point of order: If you look at the date on the video on YouTube, you will see that was actually from last Christmas. I would suggest that it was so toxic it’s possible it may even have caused COVID. Thanks, […]