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Pitchfork Reviews Kirsty MacColl
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Pitchfork Reviews Kirsty MacColl: 7.0 is about right – the self-congratulatory tone Richard M Juzwiak takes over his faint praise is all wrong. We know you don’t like melodrama, Richard, we could have guessed that from your dismissal of &[…]

Hmmm, my huge-round-buying generosity
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Hmmm, my huge-round-buying generosity stimulated, no doubt, by the fact that it’s nearly my birthday and I’m trying to spread an air of bounty and largesse amongst my friends.
However the really impressive thing was the way I remembered […]

GET THIS MAN TO BUY YOU A DRINK TONIGHT
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GET THIS MAN TO BUY YOU A DRINK TONIGHT
John left the pub last night just as the large round reached it’s critical mass. And it was his round. The cur, and I had to pay for the taxi/ambulance. This on-line dissing is intensely liberating.[…]

Radio Plus
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Radio Plus gives you Emm! Pee! Threes! of stuff that John Peel is playing. All the usual suspects including Most Annoying Song Ever “I Have The Password To Your Shell Account” by Barcelona, the band who make Baxendale look like Kraftwerk.[…]

Yaara.com
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Yaara.com: “should really be linked by NYLPM” says Sterling on the forum, and who can disagree? Indian pop online – Bollywood, bhangra, pop, ‘Asian underground’. Neat.[…]

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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…