Good news for UK Sopranos fans. As well as the new episode on e4, in which Paulie is released, on mainstream Channel 4 they are showing the episode where Paulie and Christopher get lost in the woods. Best. Episode. Ever.

Another Blues fans gets blogging. Ragamuffin; this one is definitely worth a look, his status as a Blues fan is entirely incidental to a blog which looks a bit special.

Punch magazine is online, for those who like that sort of thing.

The best folk and world music of 2002, according to froots magazine.
And according to Global Village Idiot.

Learn some jazz history by just clicking around this photo.

Ouga Chaka Zen

All you never wanted to know about the meat we eat. Nasty stuff, not for the squeamish.

Get Your War On surpasses itself. Absolutely brilliant, full of righteous anger. Essential reading.

I packed up smoking when the babbies started to arrive, but even now, the pleasure is tangible, as is the subsequent weight gain. There is some dispute in the little island of joy and happiness that is my workplace between those that do and those that don't. Those that don't, well some of them anyway, complain that those that do take about 20 minutes or more per fag break, which is an accurate enough summation, actually. Unfair goes the cry, "what about the rest of us?". Here is the answer.

Talking of work, the FFC has been unnaturally civil this week, until today anyway, when once again she started to look as if she had just eaten a shit sandwich whenever I uttered. She had been up for a promotion, didn't get it. We are all truly gutted.

This crazy bint sounds a lot like my first Mrs.

Feel like a barney? have one with Socrates