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Quantum Of Solace 7 (as the poster says): An Appreciation
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Here is a review from FT’s Bond-o-o-phile Magnus Anderson:
Quantum of Solace 7 is GREAT! It had plenty that I liked in Casino Royale, the weight and heft and sense of consequence. But it was better paced – I thought CR dealt with the car[…]

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Zot! 1987-1991 by Scott McCloud
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I mentioned this in one entry in my Beginner’s Guide series, and rereading it now in this big collection, I think I may have undersold it a little. This volume collects all McCloud’s B&W Zot!s: it therefore omits the first 10 colour i[…]

What Is The 38th Best Song Of All Time Then?
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Its not Punka by Kenickie. As demonstrated here, the massed meh of FT writing staff proves it. So instead intrepid reader suggested five worthy replacements for number 38. And you have until the end of November 4th to decide whcih one should have the[…]

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A Bite of Stars, A Slug of Time, and Thou – Episode 16
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In the last episode of Series 2, Astrophysicist Michael Williams joins Mark Sinker and Elisha Sessions to talk about “The Forgotten Enemy”, written by Arthur C. Clarke in 1949. It’s about comfy isolation, radio static, and forces la[…]

The Top 100 Tracks Of All Time: 38. ?
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Avid readers of Freaky Trigger will be aware that our intermittent at best feature, running down the “Top 100 Songs of all time as voted for in a pub in 2004”. And hopefully haven’t been holding their breath, because they’d be[…]

eDgY!!: “every yuppie’s fantasy”
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To celebrate our Popular feature reaching the 80s, here is an exciting NEW SERIES of Freaky Trigger posts where we look back at that decade through the lens of A Decade Of i-Deas: the encyclopaedia of the ’80s, published by i-D magazine in 1990[…]

Pop Quiz – A Halloween Spine Tingler
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Woooo! Choose the three you are most afraid of:

Monsters (and super creeps) 21%[…]

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end times watch: robocop on a unicorn ’08
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this has been fairly widely linked in the last few days, but as a journal of record of such matters…[…]

parlour invitation
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just a quick post to remind our loyal Sluggos that there’s lots more info and links – and pictures! ooh – about each episode of Slug of Time on the Slugs and Stars homepage (accessible via that link at the top)
the last episode of t[…]

A Bite of Stars, A Slug of Time, and Thou – Episode 15
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It’s Katie Grocott in the studio this week with Mark Sinker and Elisha Sessions to talk about “Things”, written by Ursula Le Guin in 1970. This is a short story about a society sharply divided between nihilist marauders and maudlin […]

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  1. Tom, thank you for such thoughtful reflections on Popular and the charts. I really enjoyed them, just as I’ve really…

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