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There are a number of property developer lobby groups covering the City of London and while this blog has mentioned the likes of the City Property Association (CPA), it hasn’t to date dealt with the City Architecture Forum (CAF). Like...
Review by Sandre the Giant Released: 15th May 2026 I reviewed the last record from Norwegian mindbenders Defect Designer here, and ‘Chitin’ had begun to experiment outside of the usual progressive death metal circles but it is...
FIFA Executives Were Given Ultimatum to Approve World Cup Privatization Plan. Filthy. Rats.
The only recording today is a repeat of The Simpsons – Stark Raving Dad. Media Centre Description: Homer encounters a character who calls himself Michael Jackson. Is he the real McCoy? Recorded from Channel 4 on Friday 30th April 2010...
Four years after Sunset Boulevard, a movie that opens with the death of someone in the movie business then rewinds to show us the backstory. Our tragic contessa is Spanish Ava Gardner, last seen in the similarly-technicolored Pandora and...
I’ve been trying to introduce friction into my life.I’ve spent the last maybe eighteen months in a totally frictionless zone and it’s led me down a totally frictionless slide of saying Yes to things and now I’ve got altogether way too...
Neil W. wrote to ask:I am seeing lots of advertisements for a new film called "The Invite". (Sounds quite promising with Seth Rogen playing his usual character). Here is a review from the notoriously picky Peter Bradshaw, who quite liked...
Olive Grove, Palermo, Francesco Lojacono, oil on canvas, 33 x 58 in. (84 x 147 cm). Link is to page with access to large image on Wikipedia. I don’t know the location of the original. Italian painter Francesco Lojacono, who was active...
(all about sex between men, described largely in street language, and utterly inappropriate for kids and the sexually modest) Two engaging images of faces, both conveying pleasure, during man-on-man sex. What is it that these guys are so...
I am blogging this week about work that never ends, about which, we all know too much. I nonetheless think doing that work has significant intangible benefits. Read more here. Winter is coming! In honor of that cheering notion, I’ve...
I was waiting for a meeting to start when the lady next to me asked how my summer was going. “It’s going… too quickly. I am busy, but I don’t seem to be getting much done. It’s August, and I still haven’t scrubbed, sanded, and repainted...
As I was mowing the lawn today at Chez Boca, cursing myself for letting it go a few weeks, I was reminded that it wasn't as bad as that one time at Casa New Jersey. I'm thankful for that.
MACAO (1952), just released on Blu-ray by the Warner Archive Collection, is, as the saying goes, "more fun than a barrel of monkeys."MACAO has always struck me as a bit in the shadow of HIS KIND OF WOMAN (1951), the first RKO film...
There are many challenges that come with being a renter in Australia, and one of them concerns the quality and condition of the included appliances. Most rentals I had here prior to buying included a dishwasher and a dryer. This sounds...