Missed my slot last week. But then Ron died and it would be a mistake not to link to Christopher Hitchens pouring scorn in Slate - apparently when he didn't like a question RR turned into a 'cruel and stupid lizard'. So David Icke was right. If you're fed up with the tributes and the nonsense about winning the cold war, read AM Homes' story 'The Former First Lady and the Football Hero'. That'll put you right.

Somewhere there was a link to Groucho meeting TS Eliot and so I wander off to the Guardian in search of the Stephen Merchant article about the brothers the other day and find a Marx Brothers quiz on the front page. (Only 7 out of 10). The Guardian is a wonderful place. And more here for future reference. Anyone got any spare DVDs?

Momus, nonsense about Morrissey, and more, then Viennese cafés linked to for its description of a 'Melange' - more delicious to say than even to drink - which demonstrates the beauty of German: 'Bohnenkaffee mit aufgeschäumter/gequirlter Milch und Schokoladeflocken'.

Gequirlter Milch is something to covet (and I like coffee black).