“Sod the wine, I want to suck on the writing. This man White is an instinctive writer, bloody rare to find one who actually pulls it off, as in still gets a meaning across with concision. Sharp arbitrage of speed and risk, closest thing I can think of to Cicero’s ‘motus continuum animi.’

Probably takes a drink or two to connect like that: he literally paints his senses on the page.”


DBC Pierre (Vernon God Little, Ludmila’s Broken English, Lights Out In Wonderland ... Winner: Booker prize; Whitbread prize; Bollinger Wodehouse Everyman prize; James Joyce Award from the Literary & Historical Society of University College Dublin)


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21 April 2013

LOSE WEIGHT WHILE YOU GUZZLE SUDS

Bugger food trucks; I want one of these!  The Pedal Pub carries up to seventeen people, including a driver and a barman who works from the platform between the bars.  Passengers can choose whichever beer they prefer: the wine barrel holds the keg.  I imagine it could be very easily modified to carry instead a barrel of wine or spirits.  Five pedallers each side can propel the bar at five miles per hour on the flat or grades of up to six per cent. You can lose weight while you drink. The four speaker sound system is fitted into the storage rack beneath the roof; the bar top has holes in it to secure the glasses; there's a suds holder for the driver, too.  This is the best moveable feast the DRINKSTER has encountered  since he fell in love with the Tuk Tuk Vendo, which, like the Pedal Pub, was designed and built in the Netherlands.  I'd be bunging some serious wheels on it, however, to guarantee better roadholding on bad corners - one wouldn't want to fall off the wagon at speed. Available solely from Hammacher Schlemmer at a mere US$40,000.

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