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FT Top 100 Films 91: AFTER-LIFE
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(This film is Japanese and therefore whether or not there is a hyphen, a space or it is all one word is variable. Its actual title is of course in Japanese.)
So your dead. What next? It may all depend on what you believe in, it may all be moot. What […]

Horse Vs Greyhound race!
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Horse Vs Greyhound race! Hurrah for sporting gimmicks![…]

Arbitrariness
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As the current FT top 100 films suggests, there are two principles available on which to base lists of cultural artifacts. You can be arbitrary, and pretend to be being something else, or you can be arbitrary, and admit it.
James Wood, reviewing Rand[…]

Twilight Of The MP3Blog?
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Twilight Of The MP3Blog?: Yousendit, the file transfer service which became the hapless vehicle for many of the new blogs, is no longer offering unlimited transfer of under-10MB files.[…]

Alton Brown
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Alton Brownspeaks a lot of sense, Vic and I watched quite a lot of his show while in the States and are now petitioning UK Food for them to be shown here , so good ar ethey, anyway, here’s a sample:
“If I?ve said it once I?ve said it 97 t[…]

FT Top 100 Films 92: ONE OF OUR DINOSAURS IS MISSING
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This is a film I saw once. When I was six. So why did I nominate it for the Freaky Trigger Top 100 films? You may pick the analytical version or the honest version, dear reader.
THE ANALYTICAL VERSION: As I was saying on The Brown Wedge the other day[…]

Secondary support
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Secondary support
I was interested to find that I had preferences in all the League playoff finals this year, for various reasons. Beyond my beloved Bristol Rovers, I don’t care much about what any other teams do, but I found I had a desire for[…]

Too Tough To Cook
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Too Tough To Cook
Post-Punk: an examination of the underground culinary movement
How to make Gutter Punk
International Pizza Punk Day![…]

whose Spanish cuisine rules London?
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whose Spanish cuisine rules London?
Last year Vicky and I visited Moro, often touted as being one of the best restaurants in London for Iberian cuisine and had a fantastic meal with terrible service (see the archives for a report – around Augus[…]

A note on some new songs I heard this weekend:
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A note on some new songs I heard this weekend:
Phixx – Wild Boys: It really is last-chance saloon stuff for these guys, I quite liked the naffness of Love Revolution, which I think barely made the top ten. Now, you can’t really go wrong w[…]

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