Futtocks

Last night on BBC4, More old Jews telling Jokes. Great fun, and surely one of the cheapest programmes to make there's ever been.

Not particularly ugly, but bland, generic and dull.

Misguided opinions from the past.

Explaining the references in 'Lydia the tattooed Lady'.

Saturday afternoon's playlist: Ry Cooder & V.M.Bhatt - Isa Lei The Brothers Johnson - Streetwave Bonnie Raitt & Keb' Mo' - Love Letter Wall of Voodoo - Look At Their Way Dire Straits - Lady Writer Messer Chups - Two Minutes To Massacre Curtis Mayfield - We People who are darker than blue (Live) Jim White - Static On The Radio David Lindley - Quarter of a Man King's X - Fine Art of Friendship Faust - Feed The Greed Calexico - Across the Wire Peter Hammill - Re-awakening Ian Dury & the Blockheads - Inbetweenies The Call - Let the Day begin (Live) Mike Keneally - Your Quimby Dollars at Work Loudon Wainwright III - Talking New Bob Dylan David Bowie - Queen ##### Bettye LaVette - Down to Zero Marc Ford - Two Mules and a Rainbow Ismael Lo & Marianne Faithfull - Without Blame Beck - Dark Star Los Lobos - Que Nadie sepa mi sufrir Linda Ronstadt - The dark End of the Street Fistful of Mercy - In vain or true Trombone Shorty & Orleans Avenue - Groove on (Live) Alison Krauss & Union Station - I am a Man of constant Sorrow (Live) Etta James & Bob Dylan - Goodnight Sweetheart John Phillips - Straight Shooter New Radicals - You get what you give Vivian Stanshall - How the Zebra got his Spots Col.Bruce Hampton & the Aquarium Rescue Unit - Dead Presidents Tom Petty & the Heartbreakers - Don't pull me over Santana - Carnaval (Live) Lou Reed - Last great American Whale Grace Jones - I've seen that Face before (Libertango) Harry Nilsson - Driving along Lambchop - Up with People The Bee Gees - Marley Purt Drive The Pernice Brothers - Crestfallen Dennis Locorriere - I'm impressed with myself Van der Graaf Generator - Crux Greezy Wheels - Clean but unshaven Gil Scott-Heron - Is that Jazz? Doll by Doll - Sleeping Partners Dan Hicks & his Hot Licks - The Piano has been drinking Jo Jo Zep & the Falcons - Shape I'm in Goldfrapp - Eat yourself Guy Clarke - L.A.Freeway Dream Warriors - My Definition Donald Byrd - Blackbyrd Beck & Emmylou Harris - Sin City Blue Swede - Hooked on a Feeling Erato - Call your Girlfriend Daniel Lanois - The Moon struck one Kinky Friedman - Sold American Snakefarm - Pretty Horses Donald Fagen - Out of the Ghetto Hugh Masekela - Getting fat in Africa Alvin 'Youngblood' Hart - Tallacatcha George Duke - Dawn The Kane Gang - Closest Thing to Heaven John Zorn - The Ballad of Hank McGain Dillard & Clark - Kansas City Southern Al Green - How can you mend a broken Heart? Rita Coolidge - My Crew Tom Petty & the Heartbreakers - Nightwatchman (Live) Joe Walsh - Meadows Phish - Ghost Bob Dylan - Not dark yet The Nits - Soap Bubble Box David Bowie - Hole in the Ground (sadly, not a Bernard Cribbins cover) Lou Reed - Walk on the Wild Side Cassandra Wilson - Ju Ju (Live) Incognito - Don't you worry 'bout a Thing Fleetwood Mac - Tusk Cold Chisel - The Game Danny Gatton - Quiet Village The Power of Seven (feat. Myrna Matthews) - Shadows on a Screen Zulu Spear - Chin Up Dion - Written on the Subway Wall/Little Star

Money can buy you many things, but good taste?

On a lighter note, from ISIHAC (New Series just started!). 'Girlfriend in a Coma', to the tune of 'Tiptoe through the Tulips'.

Burning Spear cover the Grateful Dead. http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=SrpaOyfIIeY

An oldie, but a goodie - Peter's Evil Overlord List. Scroll down past the copyright blurb.

And now something a little less subtle.

Food Standard Agency ratings - check out your local greasy spoon etc.

Had haggis* on Hallowe'en, so, in a nod to the day, served it with roasted pumpkin instead of neeps. Much tastier! Shame the supermarkets don't sell proper pumpkins for more of the year. Butternut squash is okay, but a bit bland. *MacSweens, naturally.

Free download from BigOZine: Todd Rundgren - Live at the Orpheum Theater, Boston, MA, December 12, 1975 (FM Broadcast)

Or a 'Gutless Wonder', if you're a fan of Frasier.

You can get it on Amazon!

Three cheers! Debenhams strike a blow against cod-Italian drivel in the world of badly-made coffee.

Bored waiting to cross the road? Play Traffic Light Pong!

Ladies and Gentlement, I give you the pinnacle of human achievement!

I've sometimes used crème fraiche, but I needed something more neutral in flavour.

Paragliders' photos over the Wyoming Red Desert - click on the picture for more images.

Seeing as the season for hearty food is upon us, I made a beef, chestnut and mushroom stew in the slow cooker, finished off by reducing the sauce and adding a spoonful of sour cream. Served with parmentier potatoes cooked in goose fat, and accompanied by a bottle or Sicilian Nero d'Avola. Life is good.

Your question... why use the word 'or'? You'd be doing such a spread a disservice without it, shirley?

Donald Fagen - Sunken Condos. Not listened to all of it, but it's sounding better than his previous album so far.

Ozric Tentacles - Arborescence Livingstone Tayloy - Liv Max Webster - Universal Juveniles Dusty Springfield - From Dusty with Love The Triffids - The Peel Sessions Tangerine Dream - Tyger Kraftwerk - The Man-Machine Peggy Lee & George Shearing - Beauty and the Beat!