Courtesy of caramel_betty, the best (or at least, funniest) Big Brother commentary I have seen so far.

From the page on the Mali Empire:

"Sundiata also instituted a universal constitution for the Mandinka and all subjects of his new empire. [...] He also put in place social and economic reforms including prohibitions on the maltreatment of prisoners and slaves, installing women in government circles and a system of banter between clans which ( Read more... )

Standing on Baker Street's Westbound Circle line platforms a couple of weeks ago, I noticed that the service indicator on the Eastbound platform still bore the legend 'Whitechapel and Circle Trains', despite it being over ten years since that branch of the Met got renamed. This got me thinking about the Hammersmith And City line, and what a rubbish ( Read more... )

Why in the name of all that is holy is Richard Ashcroft still releasing records? And more importantly, who on earth is buying them?

It initially gladdened my heart to see this press release from TfL on Wednesday. ELL extension work to be brought forward! Proper through running from Highbury to New Cross by 2010! EIGHT trains an hour! Mr Livingstone fully understanding the needs of Islington residents such as myself to visit atommickbrane and mrs_leroy_brown in New Cross! Hurrahs all round! Yet after a bit ( Read more... )

I've spent a fair chunk of this morning reading this ILM thread about new-not-quite-dance people, MSTRKRFT. Leaving aside the worrying PRML SCRMesque splng, the thread is probably not worth reading in full. It's mostly the same old indie-dance vs dance-purist arguments rehashed around a new band ( Read more... )

In case you missed Lord Sukrat's announcement yesterday, poptimists now has a sister community by the name of fooptimists for poptimist style discussion of all things World Cup and football related.

Except that they don't. Maybe ( Read more... )

Hello folks. I appear to have a free subscription to the London Review of Books going spare. Given that my current subscription was given to me by puffinry via an open LJ offer, it seems only fair to offer the free one to you lot in the same way. So, first to comment gets it.

Geoff Boycott has just complained that the Sri Lankan bowling attack "wouldn't frighten me mum". Ladies and gentlemen, summer has arrived.

Edited for further classic commentary:

Blowers: "This Cook plays like he doesn't want to get out. Almost Boycottian."
Boycott: "And that's a good thing..."