Moebius (who I met) and Ralph McQuarrie (who I didn’t)

Sometimes I just know something but it takes a while for the world to catch up … There is no scientific basis for race: http://www.guardian.co.uk/commentisfree/2012/feb/17/race-is-a-myth-deborah-orr Human weight loss is more nuanced than the Laws of Thermodynamics: http://www.guardian.co.uk/lifeandstyle/2012/feb/24/dr-dillners-health-dilemmas-lose-weight Watching people cheat and lie in soap operas isn’t good for you: http://www.news.iastate.edu/news/2012/mar/aggression Whereas The Simpsons is just [...]

Davy Jones Frank Carson And some Frank Carson jokes … A man went into a sandwich bar with a notice outside, ‘I will give you £100 if you can name any filling I can’t supply.’ The man asked for a giraffe’s tongue sandwich. The owner went out the back and returned a few minutes later [...]

Fortean Times 184 has an article about a myserious amoeba oozing over the wall in the background of the Railway Children (as well as lots of other bits of incidental film strangeness). Take a look around 7:05 for the weirdy branch falling out of nowhere: Definitely strange, but definitely not a giant amoeba in my [...]

the first Jarvis album, the first LCD Soundsystem album, Bad Brains, 2007 Simpsons on Channel 4, Life’s Too Short, Mad Men Season 2, How the Dead Live and the Greatest Batman Stories Ever Told

Ken Russell Gary Speed Andrea True

Thai Cole Slaw Tabbouleh and Cucumber and Yoghurt

David Cameron, I know we don’t agree about much, but wake up and do the right thing — shut down this evil and pointless newspaper. http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-14017661

I liked this bit in Ade Edmondson’s obituary of Simon Brint: There is usually a scramble to sit next to the most interesting and open person on a tour bus – and Simon was always that man. Thanks Simon for all the funnies.

The F word in this case is feminism. I enjoyed Jeanette Winterson (writing about love and Gertrude Stein) and the story of  Mona the hijras in Dehli (a transexual who could live with her family as a man and do the Haj). I also enjoyed the very dark Sex Lives of African Girls by Taiye [...]