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RACHEL STEVENS – “Sweet Dreams (My L.A. Ex)”
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— 17 Aug 2003 Tom Comment

RACHEL STEVENS – “Sweet Dreams (My L.A. Ex)”
Check out the parentheses for how seriously Rachel S Club is taking the whole grown-up market thing. Not only has she been going out with someone, not only was that someone from exoticall[…]

UK Readers
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— 17 Aug 2003 Tom Comment

UK Readers: if you’re reading this on Sunday, and you have a pound or so to spare, pick up a copy of The Observer. Its Sports Monthly has a special edition this week, with the ‘Fifty Greatest Sports Photographs’ – a good read,[…]

There’s a lot of lame Hornboid detritus silted up
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— 17 Aug 2003 mark sinker Comment

There’s a lot of lame Hornboid detritus silted up round the idea of the mix-tape, all the more urgent to clear up for its being half-true, or worse. A letter from a convalescent friend put me in mind to make some, and send them to her: the task[…]

Two weeks in a row
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— 17 Aug 2003 mark sinker Comment

Two weeks in a row I’ve worked out who the perp was in Law & Order: SVU about 45 minutes before the (none-too-likeable) detectives did. This is very boring – why didn’t they watch Cannon as kids? That’s where I learnt to […]

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