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Pop’s Biggest BRAIN
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— 4 Nov 2009 Tom 36 comments

On Twitter yesterday, while writing the Pet Shop Boys entry, I asked “Who is the most intelligent person in pop?” – I got a lot of replies, so here is a list of all the crowdsourced nominations, from Lady Gaga to Clint Poppie.
The l[…]

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Baseball roundup
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— 4 Nov 2009 Elisha Sessions 7 comments

I’ve left it a little late, huh? The season could be over tonight, around 11pm. That’s Eastern Standard Time, Bronx Time, the time at Yankee Stadium, where the World Series returns this evening after a brief and inconclusive middle eight […]

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Jennifer’s Baddie
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— 4 Nov 2009 Pete Baran Comment

There is a point about two thirds of the way through Jennifer’s Body when Megan Fox’s Jennifer visits her best mate and explains to her exactly why she has been acting weird (where weird = not being grief stricken about mass deaths / eati[…]

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