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I just ate the best banana ever grown!!
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I just ate the best banana ever grown!! – so it is downhill from here on in I guess…[…]

The mantle of Jeremiah suits
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The mantle of Jeremiah suits Mark K-Punk very well, which is a shame in a way – the enthusiastic posts he made about The Stone Tape and Talons Of Weng-Chiang were really excellent, insightful, itching-to-watch-it-again stuff. His gloomier stuff[…]

As part of Do You See? lousy movie Monday I bring you, a lack of appreciation for Scary Movie 3:
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As part of Do You See? lousy movie Monday I bring you, a lack of appreciation for Scary Movie 3:
How much to you enjoy watching people being hit? This is the question Scary Movie 3 poses, because as far as I could work out about the only joke in the […]

Camra want more chixx0r to drink Real Ale Bouze
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Camra want more chixx0r to drink Real Ale Bouze, so I read once. YEAH THIS PICTURE MAKES ME WANT TO TRUST YOU PHOTOSHOP HAPPY FREAKZ0R, OH I MEAN, NOTT! Good job that elsewhere on the site they still have some nearly nudie ladies. Further tentative p[…]

Damn those cunning spammers
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Damn those cunning spammers – they’ve got me good and proper this time. I received an email saying “you are an idiot” – excellent, I thought! There’s nothing that gets the circulation going like flame-mail. But no,[…]

On Paycheck
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On Paycheck

Paycheck exists entirely in ActionMovieWorld, where software engineers have martial arts training as part of their job, and CEOs pack guns.
It’s a little unsettling to watch Paul Giamatti in this directly after seeing him inhabit H[…]

Weedy Eighties White People Singing About Soul Stars #3: China Crisis – “Black Man Ray”
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“Black Man Ray” is Ray Charles, who China Crisis apparently believe in. Now Ray Charles’ blackness is not a secret, so why did China Crisis see fit to remind us of it on their incomprehensibly awful single? My theories:
i) They were[…]

When is a novel not a novel?
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When is a novel not a novel? When it is actually a loosely connected set of short stories, or novellas. Hanan Al-Shaykh’s Only In London uses this trick, hoping that the resonances between her three tales will add more than the sum of its parts[…]

And is there a good reason why
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And is there a good reason whywe don’tIsn’t it nice to have a have a sidebar link to A Nice Cup Of Tea And A Sit Down? Sort it out people with appropriate permissions! (I wonder if I have them, I dunno I am too busy wondering if I am goin[…]

Dudes
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Dudes! A warning to the easily frightened – always remember to store your Tunnocks Caramel Wafers in a safe place AWAY FROM YOUR MINT PRODUCTS. Are you listening Mr Man who sells Tunnocks Caramel Wafers for 35 pence outside Goodge Street tube?![…]

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