The Matazone blog

For those of you who’ve known London for a while, you may have noticed a creeping trend: Carnaby Street has turned into a souvenir parade, Kensington Market vanished (the new version in the new location just isn’t the same), and now Camden Market – arguably the last large bastion of the alternative-and-independent world that is left in London – is faced with imminent closure to be turned into another shopping mall.

Sign up to the UK government’s petition and maybe we might make a difference (it’s worth a try):

http://petitions.pm.gov.uk/camdenmarket/

What have we got to lose? Camden. What would we gain? Nothing. Sign the petition and try and keep some character in our city!

We can categorically state that we have not released man-eating badgers into the area.

Fantastic! You can’t make this stuff up.

Here’s another one from the same story:

My husband hurried to shoot it but it was as swift as a deer. It is the size of a dog but his head is like a monkey!

The bunnies have worked out how to use guns! Run for your lives!

A planet has been discovered that’s 70% bigger than Jupiter, but has an average density of balsa wood. This should be impossible, because the gravity of the size should crush it into a more dense form… Frankly, we’ve got no idea what’s going on there. Isn’t the universe great?

They say it’s just inmates in a Filipino jail being taught to dance because it’s good for their morale, but we know the truth. They say that they are re-enacting Michael Jackson’s Thriller video, but they can’t hide the truth: there’s been a break out of zombies in the jail! We’re all doomed!

(Queen’s Radio Gaga is pretty good too, but mainly for the chorus about two minutes into the video.)