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agatha on-screen
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— 7 Apr 2007 mark sinker 6 comments

semi-watching the endless marple on TV this weekend, i began to put together a theory of what film and television get wrong about christie (in line, anyway, with what i’ve got from the admittedly slightly skewed selection i’ve read so far[…]

The 11th Freaky Trigger Pop Music Focus Group: Raw Results
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— 7 Apr 2007 Tom 19 comments

I promised the results would be up on Saturday, and here they are. Detailed scores, instant reviews, correlations and clusters, and implications all to follow.
This is from 39 votes – 32 present at Poptimism yesterday, 7 “postal”. […]

TAKE THE BRAIN: we explore and support the concept of STUPID CHESS
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— 7 Apr 2007 mark sinker 32 comments

i. “take the brain” was aggressively marketed in 1970, with ads which mainly (as i recall) featured kids yelling “TAKE THE BRAIN!!” in a “crazy” way, and the pieces being wackily wiggled at the camera. I wz a sucke[…]

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