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Girl Guide

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28/03/09
by Emma Hammond

i was never a girl guide andbrownies wasfor losers-i had my own club,it was the ’kiss my slugnone of you cunts can join’ club,and only me and the omnipodswere allowed in.our cookery badge was mud in water pattiesand fern lick bits ofdried clay,in a sauce of marshmallow charcoal sprayor- crunchy darkling fresh shrimp bruleewhich we sold door to door in packets, tiedwith gobstring & hedgehog spikesNO.. More

Video Games: A Cultural History - #8 Corruption And Public Contrition In 'I'm Sorry'

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28/03/09
by Tim Clare

On October 12th, 1983, around 170,000 demonstrators gathered at 300 rallies across Japan, calling for the resignation of Kakuei Tanaka from the National Diet (the Japanese parliament). Tanaka had served as Prime Minister from 1972 to 1974, his popular image uncomfortably shadowing Nixon’s until, after an investigation into his business dealings, he resigned rather than allow the treasurer of his controversial.. More

Liverpool Blog Trail

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27/03/09
by Nick Holloway

Thanks to Robin Brown of Liverpool Culture Blog for recommending us to be yesterday’s entry on the Liverpool Blog Trail.Just a quick correction to that entry: it’s Tim Clare, not me, who writes our wonderful column Video Games: A Cultural History. (Here’s his last one, if you missed it.)The trail is the work of the Foundation for Art and Creative Technology (pictured, above), the current exhibition.. More

Dog Days #9

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27/03/09
by Nathan Jones

Dear Bob.Why the game of tug and war? Why the game of fetch? Why the game of chase? Why the fast, fleeting lick of the mouth in the morning? Why the slow, rough lick of the hands after tea? Why the roll over on the back? Why the crouch on the haunches looking for the wind? Why the peer in the toilet bowl? Why the glance over the shoulder to check you are still on the end of the lead? Why the crunching.. More

We ♥ aPAtT

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26/03/09
by Nick Holloway

Seeing as aPAtT are playing at Tate Liverpool tonight, I thought it timely to introduce one of Liverpool’s finest bands to those of you who haven’t yet had the pleasure.Here’s a wee snippet of them singing The Stars Spell Out Your Name, filmed backstage at last year’s Latitude festival, to get us started:That’s the band on more tuneful form, but from debut release ’E.P.’ in 2002 to their second album,.. More