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There's definitely a Brian Sewell touch & a bit of rather self-conscious wackiness but some of his stuff is great. The programme he did on Nazi architecture where he pointed out how fundamentally immature it all was - he described Hitler's Eagles Nest as like the treehouse of a megalomaniacal...

"He isn’t even street — in fact, he’s posh." Tweedy tween tycoon is a toff. Shock!

I don't know ... it would be amazing if you could get a jug of it in normal pubs though. I've always found sake to give a really really nice clean clear-headed tipsiness. Very social drink, I think.

Sake! Maybe too delicate for the bigmugwarmingthehands bythefireside slurping you're talking about though ...

I was in the Gobi for a month looking for the Mongolian Death Worm as part of my cryptozoology expedition nonsense. Didn't find it. The place completely blew my mind though ... crazy stuff happening all the time. Spoke to a Russian scientist who told me completely seriously that he'd seen...

It seems plausible. I don't think it's a very long-established trait. Hundreds or thousands of years, no more. & it's only certain parts of Asia that have a problem. I was in Mongolia a couple of years ago & they suck down vodka at a frightening rate, but they've been making fermented...

Yeah, that's what my housemates said. Sounds like a great idea actually ... I like the idea of being able to dose that accurately too. Jives with my unfortunate hardwired Anglo protestantism (A USEFUL dose, for WORK). Does anyone know if there's any way of whacking dope into those little...

I'd love to smoke but my lungs can't take it. Never got the trick. All the musicians I work with smoke like chimneys of course. My bass player took pity on me a little while ago & made some hash cookies. Fucking horrible experience ... gobbled half a plateful expecting a nice happy buzz...

Yeah, they give you this great wide handle-free bowl of warm (not hot) very milky but also extremely tasty coffee. No foam, just about a litre of flat, white liquid. Great for those long Parisian breakfasts. I'm not a coffee drinker but it just about converted me ... I've been drinking the...

I was in Paris recently & discovered the joy of the freshly baked French bread breakfast washed down with a "meal bowl" of milky coffee. Just the absolutely perfect way to start the morning. It took an hour to finish the thing. A cat could have had a fucking bath in it.

I don't ever drink coffee at home & don't particularly like the stuff. Just chain-drink tea all day. But I just can't bring myself to order tea when I'm out. It just seems wrong to sit in a cafe & pay two quid for a tiny pot of tea full of shitty Lipton Yellow Label with the tags dangling...

I cut out tea for about half a year after bad flu kept me from drinking it for a week. I got worried about the crippling headaches that I suddenly realised ... weren't flu. It's odd to feel addiction that physically. Coasted fine in uncaffeinated splendour until I got bored of feeling calm &...

Could he have refused it? Would that be classy ("Give me four more years, then give it to me, etc"), or confrontational? I think, if I were Obama, I would have refused it. Great opportunity for a nobel speech to the Nobel committee. EDIT: Everyone I've asked so far has said: you what...

"Dusty Hoop" is a brilliant name for a drag queen.

I like the way the new ring has been pebbledashing Iapetus :cool:

Nah. Plankton. (people)

Seconded, I was there a couple of months ago & it was around 8 euros a pint. Comical. Food was expensive too.

George Martin, the David Attenborough of music.

Yeah, it goes: pedophile (kids), hebophile (early teens), ephebophile (mid to late teens), gerontophile (Irish physicians). Dunno what the word is for fancying babies. Is there a word for fancying babies??

Ron "living special effect" Perlman.