I’m surprised to learn that I’m currently Yahoo!’s number one for ‘adult web cams’ (number three for ‘adult webcams’). This is a surprise because there must be thousands of sites offering relevant experiences and I’ve only mentioned webcams (never web cams) once, way back in May, to poke fun at Leslie Grantham’s antics. Continue reading
Not really. But Mancunian commuters did go home to the equivalent story last night. It’s emerged that not only have transport ministers Alistair Darling and Kim Howells opted to scrap Metrolink’s expansion £200m down the line, but also to slash the maintenance budget. At peak time the city’s Metrolink system is so popular Continue reading
NIMBYs are colonising the city centre and threatening to destroy much that makes their trendy homes trendy. Scarcely a week goes by without a local paper carrying a story of suburban people complaining about a developer’s plans to build yet more flats in their neighbourhood. But the suburban NIMBY is easily understood. They Continue reading
Last Thursday saw the Vague Film Club abandon Cornerhouse for the Royal Exchange Studio and The Falling. This is the latest work from composer/artist/writer/devisor and, most importantly, fellow Vaguster, Ailís Ní Ríain. Ailís’s work was showing as part of BLUE2, a festival of emerging artists working across theatre, music, dance, film, poetry and Continue reading
Very new Blogger Lee Pennington has already given us a glimpse of what it might have been like last Sunday when Katharine, Critter and I hosted a party to watch Derrida, the eponymous documentary looking at this post-modern philosopher. I’m not going to offer an alternative reality to that Lee has presented. Over Continue reading
