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The Art Of Idiocracy (no coffee table book shocker)
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Idiocracy is Mike Judge’s follow up to the under-marketed and thus cult DVD hit Office Space. In many ways Idiocracy shares Office Space’s occasional flashes of brilliance padded around a dullish romantic central point, and is never quite[…]

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the heliofugal worlds of MAC RA
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the who ep on sat (“gridlock”) has divided the fans sharply (er WARNING — portals to LJ): — i really really genuinely enjoyed it start-to-finish and was initially totally surprised that anyone else didn’t: except on refl[…]

worldwide shortage of hoegaarden! fancy drinkers in crisis!
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Excuses, excuses 
Attempting to order a much-needed Friday pint of Hoegaarden after work last week, I was disappointed to be told that there was none to be had. ‘Seriously,’ the barman told me, ‘it’s not just us, there’[…]

Waters-ing Hole
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Going drinking in Shoreditch is rarely a straightforward process. Our original chosen pub being closed for a family funeral, we found ourselves in The Barley Mow, a small and noisy boozer which initially seemed to offer a common-sensical safe option.[…]

the knitler diaries pt 2
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I have recently been informed that a sallow faced group of youths have fallen into what can only be called The Cult of Knitler. Seeking a method to pluck the fevered dream of N4zi knitting techniques from the ethereal to the corporeal, they face the […]

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