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I Like A Drink – What Am I?
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— 31 Jul 2007 Pete Baran 16 comments

Most of the names for people who like to have an alcoholic drink seem a bit too pejorative for my liking. Leaving out ALCOHOLIC as sufferers of a disease*, other phrases still have the nutella of disapproval spread all over them. HEAVY DRINKER seems […]

Pop Open Week 8
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— 31 Jul 2007 Tom 3 comments

This week’s tracks are on the theme of RELIGION. Go here to vote and discuss them – no revealing who did what![…]

Remember The Lesson Of The Smiths
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— 31 Jul 2007 Tom 1 comment

New Pitchfork column – ostensibly about the Smiths, with an unfair glancing reference to the Sugababes and an uninformed one to Interpol – uninformed, though probably not wrong. Writing this was a bitty process and unfortunately it shows[…]

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