The Weekend Waits – Nirvana

A poem by Charles Bukowski

Pig Sick?

It’s a defining moment in British politics. Peter Mandelson alleges dirty dealings on the part of the BBC in ‘Peppagate’

The Far Side

Quote Cameron

Via Alastair: In the first of the Great Debates, David Cameron came away with a few patently untrue anecdotes about people he’d met while campaigning. The most widely-remarked on of these was his apparent meeting with ‘a 40-year-old black man’ who, according to Cameron, came to Britain aged six and somehow spent 30 years in [...]

Wind of Change

I was in a restaurant yesterday when suddenly I desperately needed to pass wind. The music was very loud, so I timed my farts with the beat of the music. I had so much wind that I was able to fart not only on the beat but also on the off-beat. After a couple of [...]

S P Hell

It was the most unsurprising news of the weekend. A not very good team (Rangers) won the SPL by being not quite as bad as the other teams. It is with some interest and no little amusement that this supporter of a wee team reflects on the various twists and turns in the Scottish game [...]

Gordon and the Zeitgeist

In the eighties there was Red Wedge. In the nineties it was Cool Britannia and Britpop. It was only a matter of time before Gordon tapped into popular youth culture in this election. TBLFP can exclusively reveal the next secret weaponry in the Labour campaign:

Hypnotic, and No Hassle

This is Tosca “The album is called No Hassle – what everybody wants and nobody has. I think it’s a human right not to have to deal with reality all the time” Musical landscape? or wallpaper? I don’t care, I love it!

Mistaken Identity?

Thanks to Alastair for this everyday story of Edinburgh Folks. A MAN accused of weighing his penis on scales in the fruit and veg section of a Scotmid store walked free from court today after being found not guilty of public indecency.It was alleged that he had his penis visibly exposed to the public and [...]

Influences

This is the XX I like this stripped down electro-atmospheric stuff. What about the guy playing the drum machine in real time? I was first drawn to this band and song by this: And going back to the original, it has shades of this: