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i knew someone would say that but i hate lacoste stuff. it's too expensive and looks childish somehow. or at least i think it does on me. all my sweeping sartorial judgements are based on what's good for me, not what other people should wear, which i don't care about much and certainly wouldn't...

i frequently wear polo shirts - both plain (always ralphs, never any substitute) and horizontally striped (i have a couple of generic ones that i bought in the US and like a lot). today i am wearing a grey hanes t-shirt with a navy blue muji cardigan with a kind of polo shirt collar, jeans and...

er, i posted my views in the open because i thought it was a bizarre, distasteful and potentially quite ugly thread. nomos did the same. i was glad to see he had. i have never complained to a moderator about anything, ever, and don't plan to start now. and, just for the sake of my own...

like most of us, i do most of my posting and reading of dissensus as a distraction from work. like most of us, i assume, i like it when the board is entertaining; something to take my mind off what i'm doing. that means that i and many other people enjoy dumb/whimsical/funny posting/threads...

there's more to them than the fiddle-di-dee stuff, but good is probably stretching it a little.

bootcut jeans can suit some people. they do not suit me at all and are really not my style anyway. the tryanny of men's fashion is pretty mind-boggling tho. hmmm, the big debate today is what cut of trousers we shold ALL HAVE TO wear... women really do have it much better when it comes to clothes.

made for people who look like they should be acting in skins

i really wish dunn & co still existed

i am too old to wear anything from american apparel

Apple is Ghanaian and explicitly says that highlife is a big influence on him. I don't hear a lot of Brazilian influence in his stuff, yet I do hear a lot of quite gritty African sounds and textures. It's also a lot easier to recognise than any kind of African instrumental influence ever has...

it generally wears very well. the sweats, you should buy oversized because they shrink a little in the wash. re the "boring H&M" point, i don't really agrree. it's just pretty decent, simply designed clothing, whereas H&M is cheap hideous shite

@ zhao... what i mean is: saying that african culture had any real tangible effect of the instrumental rhythms and textures of grime was always a massive reach. sure, grime's subject matter brought in all kinds of references to african identity, its vocal cadences could be said to be influenced...

apple's stuff and ng's stuff particularly. it's totally highlife/mzansi-influenced. on one of the crazy cousins radio sets i have, there's a significant chunk that sounds like afro house, filtered through hardcore (ie more bass than in mzansi stuff or US afrocentric shit), played in a jamaican...

alternatively: a body is found in an immaculately furnished apartment. the man, a designer of minimalist furnishings named gudmund eriksson, has been shot through the head. a similar detail of well-adjusted multilingual policepersons turn up, led by inspector erik gudmundsson, a not even...

there are tons of places where you can get killer cheap stuff in the states, though, new york especially. i get most of my clothes in the US for next to nothing, then spend hideous amounts of money on a few things here. my favourite shop in london in uniqlo, though. great japanese jeans for £25...

by rights, scandinavia should turn out some cracking crime fiction — all that cold and darkness lots of the year – but i've never come across any of it. i've only really read peter hoeg. then again, don't they have a terribly low crime rate and just sit around drinking super-strength spirits and...

ChickPizz is quite plainly a pun. It has a remarkable similarity to chickpeas, does it not?

you all know my very warm feelings about derek raymond, i think. you don't get many better writers than him and, yes, he was a truly unique individual.

Re: Pelecanos I really like Drama City, Hell To Pay and the whole DC Quartet series (The Big Blowdown, King Suckerman, The Sweet Forever, Shame The Devil).

I'd read Pelecanos every time over pretty much any of these writers. I think he's as good as Ellroy and that's saying something. Hawes and Brookmyre are total trash, though. Big up Jenks for repping Maigret. It's amazing that Simenon turned out about one of those novels a week for a while...