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WHO REVIEWS #ef6: cat lick your heart….
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MANAGRA by Stephen Marley, featuring the Fourth Doctor (huzzah!), Sarah Jane Smith and a cast of thousands…
“Europa is invested by ghosts, vampires, werewolves, ghouls and other grotesques spawned from old European folklore. I think we’re in a […]

THE FT TOP 23 UNEXPLAINED PHENOMENA: 20: The Face Of Jesus On Toast
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Or indeed the face of Elvis burnt into a deBrevilled Toasted Sandwich. Perhaps even the name of Jehovah in the seeds of an aubergine. The commonplace occurrence of this phenomenon has never been explained, but used as definitive proof of God’s exis[…]

Good ILE Thread Alert
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Racial puppetry in right-wing comics – fascinating and well-researched stuff, right-wing strips (as opposed to editorial cartoons) have never really caught on in the UK so it’s hard to think of an equivalent for this kind of thing. Also j[…]

Day 47: Mexican Divorce
AROUND THE WORLD IN 80 LOUSY DAYS
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Crispian woke me up lying on the beach in Acapulco. I have to say, I had the most horrendous hangover. And whilst my head hurt it did not hurt as much as that of the imbecilic Passepartout I was travelling with. You see as soon as I realised what had[…]

Frankenstein by Mary Shelley
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I’m a big believer in reading the classics – not to educate or better myself or anything like that, but because there is often a good reason for their status, and I’ve enjoyed many of them, found them hugely rewarding.
But there are[…]

WHO BUILT THE MOON WATCH: Chapters 2 & 3
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Chapter 2: Moving away from amazing moon coincidences and into a vague cul-de-sac of megaliths and measuring units. In particular the amazing construction of the megalithic yard. A standardized unit of measurement which is the length of a pendulum co[…]

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CARUSO THE CROSS-EYED LION
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the CAST of CSI as revealed by gameworld impossitech[…]

Costume Design as Shopping
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Apparently director Nick Love tirelessly traced down hundreds of items of 80’s casual gear for his film the Business. And the collection of windcheaters, tracksuits and the like are very impressive in The Business. Unfortunately this tale of 19[…]

THE FT TOP 23 UNEXPLAINED PHENOMENA: 21: Automatic Writing
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In our say and age its called dyslexia, or piss-poor typing. In the Victorian age it was known as automatic writing. Perhaps the two things are not exactly the same, but consider the idea behind automatic writing and then consider the way I wrtie a F[…]

WHO BUILT THE MOON WATCH: Chapter 1 & Introduction
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For my birthday I got a copy of the bestselling science book Who Built The Moon, a book that once and for all claims to solve the age old mystery of Who Built The Moon. As I read it I shall keep FT readers up to date with the GROUNDBREAKING SCIENCE F[…]

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  1. "Dave Sim sticks the landing." That is my feeling too. As frustrating and borderline unreadable as the last 50 issues…

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  4. LOL - I'm reading through these, and the "Jaka's Story" one drew my first reaction, and in it I said…

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