Archives – 2003 – November – 06  

After moving twice
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— 6 Nov 2003 byebyepride Comment

After moving twice, and one big summer tidy-up, I’ve finally got round to unpacking an enormous box of cassettes… I’ve even managed to throw a few out, on the grounds that they had been: a) broken; b) bought for 20p and so awful tha[…]

One potential guarantee of the overall cultural worth
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— 6 Nov 2003 Pete Baran Comment

One potential guarantee of the overall cultural worth of any project may well be the ability of the project to have cheap jokes made about it. Using this rule of thumb 24, Stephen Hopkins finest hour, certainly stands up. But jokes about Kim vs couga[…]

It barely needs saying that the best project Stephen Hopkins has ever been involved in, and by some distance, is
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— 6 Nov 2003 Magnus Comment

It barely needs saying that the best project Stephen Hopkins has ever been involved in, and by some distance, is 24. But the others haven’t been awful either, apart from perhaps Lost in Space and The Ghost and the Darkness. Hm. Argument seem[…]

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