Everyday Tooting racism
Overheard outside St George’s this evening, a conversation between a middle-aged Indian bloke (MIB) and a late-middle aged guy of possibly middle-Eastern descent (MED): MIB: …not so bad, but it’s…
Music & Terror
“You are in a place that is out of the world. . . ”: Music in the Detention Camps of the “Global War on Terror” is an article by Suzanne…
Hoover bag news
Within 12 hours of posting my complaint about the dearth of Hoover bags in Wandsworth, I’d had an email from a choreographer, and another from a systems analyst in Australia.…
24 kilos excess baggage
As I stepped on the scales this morning, I was delighted to notice that I have at long last managed to attain my comedy target of losing my British Airways…
Places that are still there, No.1: Scoffers
It probably wasn’t called Scoffers at the time, but it looks exactly as I remember it. I stumbled across it again recently, almost 20 years after first going there. It…
What’s up doc? and diegetic music
Half-studying my new Nokia N73 phone, half-ripping a DVD to mp4, half catching up on emails, half drinking a bottle of very good Chilean red, and half watching What’s Up…