
Bill Murray deserves perfect happiness, and an Academy Award
‘On the Rocks’ is a wine-tasting, and there’s chocolate cake too.

Baseball, You Saved My Life
Again.

Proper Tott’n’m
It feels proper good to see Tottenham Hotspur playing with intent, hunger, and desire again - and (yes) for Jose Mourinho.

The Carcass Caucus
With some persuasion, Bazzi shares a poem. We analyse it like a coupla (ahem) pros.

Derek Cianfrance aims straight for the heart, again
I Know This Much is True isn’t so much ‘must-see TV’ as it is another vital statement from the director on the nature of trauma.

Teddy Wayne’s ‘Loner’ is unsettling and uncomfy, but … that’s about it.
Wayne is a gifted novelist, working scene and mood like components of a stringed instrument … but.

Bielsa, Bielsa
El Loco’s got Leeds United looking armed and dangerous - like they’re bloody well supposed to.

Of Rails & Ollies
HBO’s Betty is the purest small- or big-screen experience you’re going to have this year.

From Lisbon, With Longing
It’s Paris versus Munich in the Champions League Final tonight, and also Impure Romance versus Brutal Efficiency.

A joyride to hell & back, in 20 mins tops
Boldy James’ first release from under the Griselda banner gets to its points quickly, stylishly, brutally.
Live from Planet Bedroom
Notes on the not-so-subtle art of self-quarantine.

Meditations from the Bush
In ‘Chapter III: Farmer’s Day in Requiem’, Bazzi comes to God, sort of, in an attempt to conquer time.
Meditations from the Bush
In ‘Chapter 2: Road Trippin’ to the Kafue’, Bazzi grapples with matters of manhood and nationhood, like any decent grown-up should.

Meditations from the Bush
In ‘Chapter 1: His Humblenesss Declares the Bush a Place of Dissent’, a man called Bazzi answers the call of the wilderness.

Kevin de Bruyne is the best damn player in football, & Other Stories.
De Bruyne superlatives; the end of the Messi era at Barca possibly; and the demise of Tottenham Hotspur.

Control Freakery
Remedy’s sci-fi romp is commendable sheet music, with fantastic bursts of rock ‘n’ roll.

Poetry: I Only Shine When I’m Down
I wrote a poem or twelve in isolation. I hope it shakes up your bones a notch, and motivates you to submit some pain, some heart, some lyrics. Listen hereabouts.

The world burns, but hip-hop thrives
Recent drops from Freddie Gibbs and Westside Gunn fill purists with hope and optimism, and rightly so.

Let’s have that (yasss) football?
Coco-Pop, a Chelsea hooligan, and the Editor, a Spurs sufferer, discuss Steven Bird Wine, Mou ball, and the futility of international fandom.

Make the 2020s the 90s, but better maybe
An olive branch from Gen X to Gen Z, by a millennial? Is that how this works?
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