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WWE commentator Jim Ross
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Since it’s petty irritation month over on Blog Seven, I’ll mention here some of the stupidities that annoy me from the wrestling commentator Jim Ross, known as JR. He is generally regarded as the best commentator (Mick Foley is very good […]

Samurai Executioner (again)
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I did a small item on this series when it started. I’m not sure how much it’s my state of mind and how much it’s the creative team of Kazuo Koike and Goseki Kojima finding their range, but volume 6 struck me as much the best yet, an[…]

Beer Goggles
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PROVEN BY SCIENCE.
Not really much to say about this stirling piece of research which manages to not only prove the existence of beer goggles, but do so by inventing a spurious scale wherein you can be proved to be using beer goggles EVEN IF YOU HAVE[…]

irony as a big fat non-existent LIE!
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i. a very dear friend = former drummer w.mike flowers p0ps
ii. he wz givin me a lift home after we met for his gf T’s bday meet at walthamstow dogs
iii. on his car stereo wz playin an old tape of a live show from i think 1996
iv. it wz TREMENDO[…]

Rave Rave Rave Murder
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VIM – Maggie’s Last Party. Just a bit of Iron Lady cut-up fun for the weekend – the music on this is really familiar but I can’t quite place it.[…]

Pop Notes
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Rescued from a LJ comments box, about the Rachel Stevens album (and the Girls Aloud one):
“That is kind of the problem though, it’s a terrific album partly because it’s a series of little revived micro-genres (‘the Bucks Fizz […]

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MY BIG POT Day 4 – with pictures
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MY BIG POT

WHAT IS INSIDE MY BIG POT

As you can see I am barely using the capacity of MY BIG POT at the moment, and the contents at the moment will probably last two days tops. This is due to it taking a slight hit last night when I got in from the[…]

Comics Lie To Tom, Again
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Cloning scandal
I am somewhat disappointed in Professor Hwang Woo-Suk, even beyond the ethical considerations a disgraced cloning genius should not be saying:
“I am very sorry that I have to tell the public words that are too shameful and horri[…]

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The end of an era
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aka (Ring the fucking bell)
I don’t think anyone has ever anticipated the ringing of last orders as we did last night in the Lyric. A tiny pub opposite the Windmill Theatre (soon to be subject of a film which has Bob Hoskins naked in it), it is[…]

The great West Lancashire Pub Crawl / Hike
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What with the weather being cold but dry, your intrepid correspondent spent yesterday hiking across many a field in the interests of healthy exercise. The effect of which was rather ruined by the pubs visited at along the route. However, in the inter[…]

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