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Yes Guru, Yes Method, Yes Teacher
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— 8 Apr 2009 Tom 12 comments

Simon Reynolds talks about “artists as portals” in The Guardian, specifically referring to the NME’s “Portrait Of The Artist As A Consumer” column of yore. This kind of thing is still popular – Pitchfork’s &#[…]

Suspicious? Don’t be ridiculous!
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— 8 Apr 2009 Martin Skidmore 2 comments

Two recent results from the South African Vodacom Second Division:
Young Pirates 2 Real Madrid (not that Real Madrid) 26
Namaqua Stars 50 Kakamus Cosmos 0
Extraordinarily, the South African FA is suspicious, and is investigating. They’ve alrea[…]

No Guru, No Method, No Teacher
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— 8 Apr 2009 Tom 28 comments

I am writing a piece for a market research mag on the current “hottest thinkers” that industry people like to namecheck. Inevitably many of these people are as much derided as loved, so I decided to ‘crowdsource’ a list of the[…]

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  1. I think the notion that conservatives can't make art is nonsense. J.R.R.Tolkien and G.K. Chesterton are two of my favorite…

  5. No offense taken! I don't have the ego to have alarms about myself. I do, still, have sufficient fondness for…