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A Starbuck on every corner: Galactica revisited
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— 19 Oct 2004 Ben Comment

A Starbuck on every corner: Galactica revisited
It’s all gone horribly wrong.
Having spent the end of last week watching Battlestar Galactica: The Mini-series, I was ready to savage both the show and the continuation of Hollywood’s misgui[…]

FREAKY TRIGGER TOP 25 SCARIEST THINGS – 13: Being Somewhere You Shouldn’t Be, And Hearing The Barking Of Approaching Dogs
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— 19 Oct 2004 Matt DC Comment

One of the favoured pastimes of a childhood family holiday (too old to be tucked up in bed early, too young for ten-franc bottles of wine and pursuing Dutch girls), was to round up a group of other kids, grab a load of torches and set out into the se[…]

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THE SQUARE TABLE 19 / CIARA ft PETEY PABLO – “Goodies”
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— 19 Oct 2004 Tom Comment

POP FACTOR: 762 CONTROVERSY RATING: 205
An apology: work has been very, very busy lately. Something had to give, and that something was the Square Table. Hopefully it is now, in the immortal words of Barlow,G. “back for good”.
Touch-don[…]

Gasp! [choke!] It’s…
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— 19 Oct 2004 Tom Comment

Gasp! [choke!] It’s… The First Ever ILC Greatest Comics Poll for your joining-in pleasure.[…]

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monkey-wrenching the k-kapital machine
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— 19 Oct 2004 mark sinker Comment

monkey-wrenching the k-kapital machine:
obsessive US pol-wonks will know what this is abt viz the left blogosphere’s organised assault the last few days on the share price of a media corp called sinclair (which is planning to air an anti-kerry[…]

I had famous pork on Sunday
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— 19 Oct 2004 Lucy Alder Comment

I had famous pork on Sunday. It came from Stinky Jim, you know, of Jimmy’s Farm fame. Jamie Oliver’s mate. That’s the one. Anyway, it had been brought from his piggery in Essex to Durham by my friend Pippa, who was there visiting he[…]

The aesthetics of hand-crafted CDRs
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— 19 Oct 2004 Ned Raggett Comment

The aesthetics of hand-crafted CDRs — not that musicians actually sit around and carve in data on them, that would be a bit much. But increasingly my actual music purchases are steering away from ‘official’ CDs as such — perso[…]

Music as Wallpaper
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— 19 Oct 2004 Dave Boyle Comment

Music as Wallpaper
I was watching Changing Rooms last night and heard ‘Winter Wooksie’ by Belle and Sebastian as background to Lawrence cutting out flowers. It felt right.
Given that this was coming to us from Chorleywood, Britain’s[…]

Alan Hollinghurst – The Line of Beauty
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— 19 Oct 2004 Mike Comment

Alan Hollinghurst – The Line of Beauty
My local book group discussed this last month. I was the only one who enjoyed it. I felt I had to justify my position but found it difficult to explain why I liked it. It wasn’t nostalgia (the iconic[…]

WATCH WITH MOTHER
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— 19 Oct 2004 mark sinker Comment

WATCH WITH MOTHER : Heartbeat
mark s: heartbeat is just last of the summer wine except not funny – which means (tails off glumly) mum s: it’s not been any good since nick berry left *long pause, no canned laughter* mark s: do you always […]

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