Dinner party on the tube

From billyabbott, Thou Shalt Always Kill

One of the traditions of Chinese New Year is that one should wear new clothes over the four days of celebration; from what I understand it is a symbolic shedding of the previous year and welcome to the next. Wandering through Chinatown on Monday evening and then chatting to Matt and Paul in one of those rambling conversations post-Ghost Rider has ( Read more... )

Strolling into werk this morning I was fortunate enough to time things with the early morning procession from Little India celebrating Thaipusam. It was an impressive sight, with plenty of kavadi and vel kavadi, plus nail sandals and one gentlemen pulling a chest-high alter with hooks in his back; the procession was quite sedate, with pause to ( Read more... )

From end of February my one-bedroom flat in East Croydon will be available to rent. Market rates, via Wates Residential. Please contact the letting agents for details

Related (or chronologically close to) but I suspect uninspired by my own linkblast, some pointers at honkey rap from j_v_lynch and nerdcore from lproven; long may the musical tradition of parody-then-theft-then-renewal continue

Two unexpectedly excellent musical interludes, masquerading as rap (though the latter has strong overtones of reggae):

• White And Nerdy from Weird Al Yankovich
• Youth from Matisyahu Matisyahu

Readers will no doubt be familiar with Weird Al, but perhaps less so with Matisyahu, the world's only rapping Hasidic Jew

Apparently everyone is living in Foreign Parts these days: it's the New New Thing

For my non-Goth readership, since I suspect most of my Goth readership have already seen it: BBC Culture on Goth

Thanks to [name changed to protect the innocent] for the links: paper sculptures