Graeter’s Pumpkin Spice (which was a surprise dessert last night) is the best pumpkin ice cream I’ve yet tasted. (It doesn’t even come near the heights of their Black Raspberry Chip, which should tell you how good their ice creams are.)

I doubted it was possible to be more disgusted with the actions of Mike Love… until I heard the news that he is now suing Brian Wilson for having “shamelessly misappropriated Mike Love’s songs, likeness, and the Beach Boys trademark, as well as the SMiLE album itself” for the release and tour of Brian Wilson Presents SMiLE… an allegation even more baseless than the mid-1980s charge by Fantasy Records that John Fogerty, in creating “The Old Man Down The Road”, had plagiarised himself.

If this news is accurate, Mike Love is without shame and without honour.

The video for “Jenny Wren” is now online.

The BBC review of Aerial is extremely positive. I’d place the single among the best she’s done, and I am looking forward to listening to the whole package.

The album (a double CD!) can be preordered here:

Aerial, EMI UK edition
Aerial, EMI Canada edition
Aerial, US edition

The “King of the Mountain’ video can be seen here and here.

An article by fromer BBC Director General Greg Dyke in yesterday’s Independent includes the following startling information:

In Britain the BBC is planning a similar service by making most of its programming available on platforms like the video iPod for seven days after it has been broadcast. The difference is the BBC programmes will be available for free. Their logic is that the public have already paid for the programmes through the licence fee and it would be unfair to make them pay again.

This apparently is part of a much bigger plan involving a publicly available searchable catalogue of the entire BBC programme archive.