... Are Brilliant Mark VII

Chapter seven in an occasional series on cultural icons and other stuff wot i like. Today we have: Modern Family. If you haven't caught this yet, please do so. Funny, warm, even edgy, all at the same time. This restores one's faith in the good old U.S of A. This is highly skillful mass market quality television comedy that we don't really do any more. Whatever did happen to the Likely Lads?

We are also today liking a newish beat combo called Goldheart Assembly, heard playing on Radio 4 and from whose website you can download their rather lovely new single for free - Goldheart Assembly

On an unrelated subject, please wish me luck because tomorrow the Overgraduate aims to become a triathlete. I have been carbo-loading for a full two weeks so if you see a fat middle aged bloke trailing around Stratford tomorrow hours after everyone else has finished, you will know who it is. If however he is lying on the floor please pick him up and point him in the direction of the nearest chip shop so that he can refuel.