Archives – 2001 – February – 06  

Fantastic stuff via Pete
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Fantastic stuff via Pete: the entertainment category of Petition Online, where you can create your own petition which will be sent to someone, maybe, possibly, or maybe not, who knows, hell, who cares, it’s another excuse to use the Internet fo[…]

The backlash backlash may be beginning
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The backlash backlash may be beginning, but the original backlash still has plenty of life in it. This story is time-honoured tabloid evil-pop-star-hysteria, the noteworthy thing being that it’s not a tabloid that’s running it, but the Su[…]

The Eminem backlash backlash
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The Eminem backlash backlash starts here in a most amusing fashion. When the moral majority comes out against some horrific artist (as has happened in the last week) acadaemia may slowly and eventually rear its head to look at the car crash. Here we […]

Pop Eye
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Pop Eye finds me in particularly grumpy mood this week. Of course the charts would turn poor the moment we launch P-E as its own page. There’s a poll though, so run and look.[…]

soulDecision Comment On The Nature Of Pop Music
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soulDecision Comment On The Nature Of Pop Music: You need only look at soulDecision to know that they are not a boy band, oh dear no. And the article concurs: “However, when real pop music comes along we now tend to lump it wrongly in with *NYS[…]

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  1. "Dave Sim sticks the landing." That is my feeling too. As frustrating and borderline unreadable as the last 50 issues…

  2. One thing I think you missed and one thing I have to shamefacedly admit: 1) The Krazy Kat homage, brief…

  3. " ... it’s also an ominous indication of where he’s going as a creator. He’s laying out dialogue so as…

  4. LOL - I'm reading through these, and the "Jaka's Story" one drew my first reaction, and in it I said…

  5. 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…