Archives – 2007 – February – 09  

Brandwatch: Menace To The Max
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Next week, DC Thomson are launching Beano MAX, not a low-sugar version of the popular kids’ comic but instead a giant size, kind-of-monthly publication with longer stories “designed to give these well-known characters more depth”.
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Poptimism – Lesson Twenty Eight
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Girlfriend – Avril Lavigne
Love Hammer – Layo & Bushwacka! v MC Hammer (Outlaws bootleg)
Rattled Little Clam – Lullaby Baxter
Oh, MJ! – The Little Ones (stereolab vocal remix)
Painted By Numbers – The Sounds (more&[…]

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TV Sci-Fi For Kids: The Year Is 1987… (Porn version)
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“…And America launches the last of NASA’s deep space probes…”
Of the two US space operas available to me as a child, and then again as an “ironic” Def II viewing late teenager, I always much prefered Buck Rog[…]

Thoughts from a 76
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Is there another major thoroughfare in London that has such a great array of divers buildings as Fleet Street?

Three Wren churches (OK, so St Clements Danes is *just* Aldwych), The deco majesty of the Express Building, the Protestant Truth Society, […]

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