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Jellybaby?
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Jellybaby??
THE RETURN OF DOCTOR WHO TO THE BBC! The Do You See campaign for Johnny Depp to play the doctor starts here! Jessica Stevenson for assistant? Zombie Pirate K9?
Can’t you hear those gentle strains now? Diggerydum diggerydum diggeryd[…]

Making karaoke backing tracks
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Making karaoke backing tracks would seem a simple affair: find lyrics, obtain or create instrumental track, away you go. Get the instrumental right and the lyrics as right as you can and you would probably have a winner. But more subtle consideration[…]

I don’t agree with this proposal to dock points;
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I don’t agree with this proposal to dock points; it seems to be based on a false premise. The idea is that teams won’t recklessly overspend and run the risk of insolvency proceedings being needed if they know it will really hurt them. So […]

Save vs Death
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Save vs Death: article from the fine gaming site State positing that a lack of reliance on stat-crunching and character customisation is killing the computer Role-Playing Game. It had me spluttering with disbelief, mostly at the notion that 2nd Editi[…]

The Football League catch up
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The Football League catch up with the Conference but is it too little too late, it’s hardly going to help the teams that were stiffed as Leicester went into administration last year and still kept their team together to bounce back up into the […]

“it was great to meet you, i’m sorry
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“it was great to meet you, i’m sorry it was in a place where one could not really conduct a conversation @ normal talking volume” says duane of the Windmill in Brixton

Which it wasn’t, it’s true: the odd thing is that […]

Menace To Society
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Menace To Society
Another of the small consolations of relegation to the Conference was Burton Upon Trent. A Mecca of sorts for the consumer of bitter, I’ve never been. I learned to drink beer through the good offices of Messrs Bass Worthington[…]

The Centre of Attention is a gallery without a gallery
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The Centre of Attention is a gallery without a gallery. It uses premises as necessary and appropriate, and its current temporary project is online. They call it the International Art Blog and it involves contributions from various art figures in vari[…]

The cautionary tale below
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The cautionary tale below reminds me of the time I spotted one of Britain’s best-selling authors, whose popularity stems at least in part from the intimate portrait and celebration of his native city which backs up his whisky-sodden and lovelor[…]

COMMENTARY CONUNDRA
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COMMENTARY CONUNDRA
YELLOW SUBMARINE
Commentator: line producer John Coates
You sometimes wonder who they’re going to get as a commentator on some discs — as will be seen eventually, you half figure they just called up whoever was around[…]

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  1. I appreciate the author’s insights! I played the Sprunki game today, and it was awesome. Highly recommend it! No matter…