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Bleeding For Your Art

Topic: Well, let’s be generous, and say I’m using a specific recent example to talk about controversial art.
So, where is everybody on Aliza Shvarts, then?
In case you’ve missed it, Ms Shvarts is an Art Student at Yale, and her latest piece includes blood from 9 months of self-induced miscarriages.
Well, maybe. There was a tediously […]


Posted
8 April 2008 @ 9pm

Tagged
Whisky

To Justify God’s Ways To Man

Topic: “Alasdair!” I hear you cry, “What happened to your minimum of 800 words a week plan?” Fear not, I haven’t forgotten, it’s just that I wrote this lot, a basic summary of supermarket whiskies, for the excellent food and drink blog Very Good Taste, and wanted to give them a chance to run […]


Posted
14 March 2008 @ 4pm

Tagged
Whisky

Malt Does More Than Milton Can

Topic: Hugh Hancock asks What’s So Good About Whisky, Then?
“I like the little things. The way a glass feels in your hand, a good glass - thick, with a heavy base. I love the sound an ice cube makes when you drop it from just the right height. Too high, and it will chip when […]


Posted
8 March 2008 @ 10am

Tagged
Comics

Choose Your Own Comics Company

Topic: Alasdair Stuart has very generously given me an unlimited budget, and access to every comic creator on the planet, and the remit to build a company that publishes comics and OGNs, and asked what I would do.
Obvious answer #1: embezzle the budget, live out the rest of my days in luxury.
Clearly, what he meant […]


Two Hundred Quid?

Topic: Hugh Hancock amongst other suggestions, gave me this one: “I’d never pay 200 quid for a meal. Discuss.”
I’ll state my position from the off: I have already paid over 200 quid for a meal. Twice. I hope to do it many times more. Having had three-Michelin-star food once, I want […]