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Lost Property Office 2-3: A Dirty Great Crease
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Hello Losers! Hmm, not sure if I should call regular listeners to The Lost Property Office Losers, you are all of course winners of a brand spanking new podcast. And this week I have one of the original Lollards for you, a man who by his own confessi[…]

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It Was Fifty Years Ago Today Sgt Loki Taught The Band To Play
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Another in our series of posts on Kieron Gillen and Jamie McKelvie’s Young Avengers comic.
The Ronettes’ “Be My Baby” came out in August 1963, started building radio play, then hit the Billboard Top 10 by the end of September. A kid heari[…]

I Love It
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I see from my Twitter feed (Lena Dunham Panopticon Division) that the song “I Love It” by Icona Pop is “happening” now. That’s fine by me, I like that song. One reason I like it is because of its fiendish lyrical meta-tr[…]

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Modally young ancient vengeance
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Young Avengers #1 is here and with it, duly, coverage. Of some sort. Don’t say we’re not up-to-the-minute. This is one of two ENORMOUS CLUNKING WORD-VOMITS I’m going to retch up about specific panels from Issue #1. And you’re […]

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Lost Property Office 2-2: An Olive In Sausage-Casing
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How can we follow last weeks wonderful tales of hands across the water and the stirring, beating heart of communist Cuba? Well mainly by being rude to an out of date new age owl based diary, and City AM. We really give City AM a kicking. We hate City[…]

You conduct yourself like one drunk or asleep, belching out between your snores, “Yes, No.”
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From The Bondage of the Will, pg. 113 of Luther’s Works, Vol. 33
For more in like vein, check the Martin Luther Insult Generator[…]

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Guess My Theory – Sherlock Undercover Edition
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One of my favourite things about the most modern incarnations of Sherlock Holmes* is how they deal with Sherlock’s apparent mastery of disguise. Visual Media is wary of masters of disguise** because the medium in itself is playing exactly the s[…]

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Rent-A-Mob Switch-A-Chant
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Do you find it difficult putting together a political rally? Do you find that your poorly performing football club is losing fans by the thousands and it is hard for you to maintain a general sense of hub-bub in the stands? Do you really like the Spa[…]

rah rah ragnarok*
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Beyond the hills the far horizon/In the purple evening sky/
You’ll find the Valley of Valhalla/There when you die
^^^Actual Young Avengers/Old Boney M fanfic crossover aka ‘By the Rivers of Piflheim’
*Post title courtesy piratemoggy[…]

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Lost Property Office 2: 1: The Margins Are Huge
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Welcome to the second series of The Lost Property Office, in which a guest comes into my office, full of lost items and uses it as a Proustian springboard for the losses and discoveries of their own life. We have waited eight months for the office to[…]

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