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HOBBITSES: or HOW EVERY GOOD STORY DESERVES EMBELLISHMENT (as Gandalf teaches us)
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— 31 Dec 2012 mark sinker 32 comments

1: I saw this last night (2D/24fps) and here are my notes
2: which is to say SPOILERS and DO NOT READ IF YOU HATE MORE FvCKING ELVES and ABANDON DIGNITY ALL YE WHO ENTER HERE and — above all — BEWARE THE CAVE TROLL IN THE ROOM
3: bcz, in […]

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The Annual Between Christmas And New Year Pub Crawl 2012: The Clerkenwell Wiggly Worm
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— 28 Dec 2012 Pete Baran 1 comment

Its that time of year again where Christ has been massed, and New Years Eve has yet to dawn (before it eves). Which means it is the 29th December and the FT between Christmas & New Year Pub Crawl again. And this year its in Clerkenwell. Which was[…]

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merry wobs groke readers everywhere
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— 24 Dec 2012 mark sinker 1 comment

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Sic Transit Gloria Barlow
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— 10 Dec 2012 Tom 42 comments

When Was The X-Factor’s Imperial Phase?
I got bored with the recent series of the X-Factor, and I was not alone: the ratings this year have crashed by a few million. The post-mortems are beginning: the editor of the Radio Times wasted no time i[…]

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The Freaky Trigger Readers Poll 2012
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— 5 Dec 2012 katstevens 9 comments

“Hi! I’m global megastar Rihanna. While I’m not achieving world domination I like to flick through old copies of Melody Maker and think about how I lucky I am not to have to compete with the likes of the Milltown Brothers and Haysi […]

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