Health Bulletin 1 Jul 2013 | 11:02 am

Mr Ishmael's medical advisors: i.e. dirty rotten doctor bastards have admitted him to hospital - kinives, tubes, scissors and all that stuff. His condition is not life-threatening, at least, not to hi...

EVENSONG, RY COODER, FEELIN' BAD BLUES. SIMPLY THE BEST 22 Jun 2013 | 03:41 am

AMERICA IN SHOCK AS DEAD FAT MAN IS NOT ACTUALLY A MOBSTER. 21 Jun 2013 | 02:48 am

All across the US, in casinos, brothels, justice departments, the FBI and the White House, flags were at half-mast in honour of a fat actor who wasn't really a crime boss. My fellow motherfuckers,  w...

A HORSE WITH NO NAME 20 Jun 2013 | 09:28 pm

A while back, when the same-sex marriage nonsense was coming  to a head, I wrote something along the lines of Man Demands Right To Marry Dog, or something; you know, Rover and I love each other deeply...

THE NAME OF THE GAME 8 Jun 2013 | 07:50 pm

They call it Gitmo, now, officially,  well, as officially as Time Magazine, the in-house journal of the CIA.  Why we can't close Gitmo, or some such,  was the headline. Is it that Uncle Sam is bone-id...

EVENSONG. JUNE TABOR AND MARTIN SIMPSON, STRANGE AFFAIR BY RICHARD THOMPSON 8 Jun 2013 | 07:14 pm

ROYAL JELLY. WE ARE NOT AMUSED. 8 Jun 2013 | 03:11 pm

I know she's a poor mother, a rotten, timid, cowardly monarch and a shameless leech on the public purse - and you can fuck off with that tourism schtick - but this current behaviour takes the fucking ...

EVENSONG DICK THE PRICK'S BLUES 4 Jun 2013 | 10:56 pm

Mr dtp has been urging me to take an interest in the music of Ms Sinead O'Connor; it has been difficult, because normally I can't abide people who look like this. or this I wouldn't want  to be in t...

A MERCER'S TALE. CROOK REPORTS HIMSELF FOR BEING FOUND OUT. IT IS THE RIGHt THING, SAYS CALLHIMDAVE. ONCE A BIG BAD HAS BEEN DISCOVERED IT IS A JOB FO... 4 Jun 2013 | 12:13 am

There was a rugby player, back in the Dizzy days of Di. We do not know if he was, so to speak, HRH-ing her. Granted, he was neither muslem nor  medico  but like her husband he was  nosebleedingly, con...

EVENSONG. ..............I REALISED I WAS LOOKING AT SANDY DENNY'S GRAVE, mrs n. 2 Jun 2013 | 01:37 am

Sandy Denny  died young and her  work, therefore, is locked  in her time with The Strawbs and mainly with Richard Thompson and Fairport Convention. This frail little husk of a song survives and flour...