Some of y'all might enjoy the short (3:08) video that Graham Charnock (aka Cartiledge) has posted to YouTube and called "Vanguard Party in Seattle". See many of your favorite Seattle fans in their natural habitat! See kate_schaefer in a ditch! See Andy Hooper in a fez! Hear libertango's obituary!

Good family fun. This Cartiledge fellow has a future in video.

Or How Britons came to hate Tony Blair and America, and why the next prime minister will pay the price. Fascinating article by the British journalist Andrew Brown in Salon about the prospects of a post-Blair Britain. (I've linked to the print-friendly version in the hopes that you'll escape the need to watch an ad that way.) Here's the final ( Read more... )

Norton Internet Security 2005 has been slain and the corpse removed from my PC. All systems are go, and all expletives have been deleted. To celebrate, I believe I'm having a beer with daveon tonight. Sure have been a lot of Brits around here lately!

The Charnock clan are in Seattle, visiting from London. Graham & Pat published a legendary fanzine called Wrinkled Shrew in the '70s, and the three issues I've read are terrific. (Well, two of the three anyway.) Along for the vacation are sons James and Dan, and James's girlfriend, Michelle ( Read more... )

Does the phrase "1/6d tickets" mean anything to you? This is from Steve Stiles' TAFF report. He is on a double-decker bus with Bill Burns, and he writes, "A conductor came up and asked us our destination. Two 1/6d tickets were purchased, and I wondered at that as it seemed that there must be easy ways to beat the system, getting more mileage for ( Read more... )