Archive for April 2007

Currently the most popular story on BBC News is the bizarre and horrific tale of a man who cut off his own penis in a restaurant in London on Sunday. A spokeswoman for Zizzi, the pizza chain whose branch on The Strand was the scene for this spontaneous public castration,... More »

I'm just getting stuck into Roy Christopher's delectable book of media, culture and science interviews, Follow For Now (review pending). The most exciting thing so far is discovering a word, and perhaps a playful vocation. Howard Bloom, former manager of (among others) Prince and Michael Jackson, and author of the outsider... More »

I rented the documentary DIG! on the strength of it being something about The Dandy Warhols. The Dandys really didn't make a good first impression back when I surfed into the insufferable video for 'Not If You Were The Last Junkie On Earth'. I already thought their name was a... More »

From Carl Abrahamsson, musician with White Stains and Cotton Ferox, news of an upcoming exhibition of his photos documenting the Folsom Street Fair of fetishism and sexual flamboyance in San Francisco. The exhibition is at the Museum of Porn In Art in Zurich, and is from 20th April to 17th... More »

I've just finished reading Andy Letcher's recent "cultural history of the magic mushroom", Shroom. It's a valuable book, despite some general (and quite deep) reservations I have about it if it's taken as anything like a self-contained "definitive" survey. To a large extent it's a timely, tactical piece, aiming to... More »