Britain in 2012

“Hat” “tip” to social media doyen Acrobatt. True fact: there’s some broad I added to Facebook… god knows. Late 2005? Anyway, in that entire time she has posted just two status updates. One was about how much she likes “Born to Die”. The other was in 2009 when she was complaining that all the money people paid voting for the winner of The X-Factor could be better off spent going to donkey sanctuaries.

IchLugeBullets vs Them’s The Vageries: podcast event of the year

Somehow, and I’m not quite sure how either, ILB hasn’t alienated every single person out there during our four-year reign of blogging supremacy.

What can below-mediocre Italian-American rappers tell us about race relations in 2011?

“The prospering overweight sons of leaner immigrant fathers drive from suburbia to Little Italy on weekends to replenish their ever-diminishing ethnic supplies.” Nicholas Pileggi, 1967.