I'd rather take my pleasures when and how I will, be they disgraceful or distasteful or distilled.

What a deeply peculiar Love Your Enemies that was. Realising that my drink - Olde English Gaymer - was also a self-description. Being used as an exemplar for miss_newham's education in DJing (poor girl). The amazing katstevens Pedal, capable of turning any music into BOSH except if you play Pulp's Mile End, where you'll instead get the Local History Mix. And to cap it all, Steve Lamacq, who so far as I can work out was present by mistake but seemed rather taken with it nonetheless.
( I know the meaning of life, it doesn't help me a bit )

Reason Number 6,412 Why Frank Miller Rocks: "Continuity is the hobgoblin of small minds. But Elektra is still dead."

Thanks to darkmarcpi for this: it turns out that one reason Iran et al are convinced Zionists control the media is that they need Israeli technology to propagate their own vile anti-Semitism. 'pwned!', as I believe the young folk say.

What are the odds of reviewing two books in a row, in completely different genres, and having them both contain quotes from obscure singer-songwriter Robyn Hitchcock?

In my dream last night, someone not unlike hoshuteki tried to convince me that China was actually no bigger than Wales - just very crowded.