Archives – 2006 – February – 09  

Around The World in 80 Lousy Tunes, Day 60: Slow Boat To China
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— 9 Feb 2006 Tanya Headon Comment

I had had enough of Japan. Of its horrendous karaoke. Of its bigging up of minor UK indie acts as the kind of thing teenage girls should scream at (and yes, teenage girls should scream at lousy britpop bands, BUT THEN RUN AWAY). Of the tinitus caused[…]

Mystery Foodstuff ID Parade
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— 9 Feb 2006 Pete Baran Comment

Okay, so I was in Morocco last week. Nice place, and I’ll come back to some of the culinary joys soon (not to mention finally finding the wife to Budweiser’s King Of Beers). But one of the joys of being in a foreign country can be having […]

“Dodgy metaphors “plague” “science”
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— 9 Feb 2006 Pete Baran Comment

“Scientists” have discovered a “lost world” in the jungles of “Indonesia” – according to the “BBC Website”.
“It’s as close to the “Garden of Eden” as you’re going to[…]

Love Is A Burning Thing, And It Makes A Powerful Sting
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— 9 Feb 2006 Pete Baran 2 comments

Is it Johnny Cash’s fault that his life fulfills all the rock star cliches? He helped write half the cliches, so no. (I mean clearly it is his fault for taking the drugs and being on the whole a bit of a bastard for so long, but that is not the[…]

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