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Regarding rock stars remembering
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Regarding rock stars remembering where they are, there is a Spinal Tap guest shot in The Simpsons where one of the Tap looks at the back of his guitar before shouting “Hello Springfield!” Despite this kind of tactic, bands have got it wro[…]

Copper Statue of Cardinal looks like massive Cock
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Copper Statue of Cardinal looks like massive Cock
I do not think it does, but there has been some outrage about the intentions of the work, and wether it is meant to be a very subtle peice of subterfuge.
It reminds me of how boring and offical publi[…]

Finally something that isn’t ironic to have a go at Alanis Morrisette about.
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Finally something that isn’t ironic to have a go at Alanis Morrisette about. I must admit though, as a youth I often wondered how bands on huge mega-tours remembered where they were every night. Playing the same kind of arena venues with the sa[…]

DO YOU SEE MOMENTS IN FILMS THAT SPOIL THE WHOLE FILM
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DO YOU SEE MOMENTS IN FILMS THAT SPOIL THE WHOLE FILM
1: Rosemary’s Baby
It is easy to forget that Rosemary’s Baby pre-dates The Omen and plenty of other films with the idea of the devil being made flesh incarnate*. And it is surprising w[…]

Bright pink drinks in over-large martini glasses.
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Bright pink drinks in over-large martini glasses.
When Matell get around to bringing out Cocktail Barbie (with mini pink shaker and cigarette holder), the back of the box should carry a recipie for a Blossomtini.
The Blossomtini’s principal ing[…]

HOW MARILLION ARE KILLING THE FILE SHARING INDUSTRY
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HOW MARILLION ARE KILLING THE FILE SHARING INDUSTRY
One of the reasons for my relative patchiness in hating updates recently has been due partially to a relatively crap computer. So I spent the unpleasant hours before the pubs opened this morning wan[…]

A trip back into London following a meeting in Canary Wharf
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A trip back into London following a meeting in Canary Wharf, plus the need to get a handful of cheap CDRs can mean only one thing: a visit to Whitechapel. And a visit to Whitechapel in the daytime can only mean a visit to The Whitechapel. Whose new s[…]

I saw the highlights of the Celtic game
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I saw the highlights of the Celtic game that Martin mentioned earlier and thought that both goals were magnificent and demonstrated why football is a wonderful sport.
The first was, as David Pleat said in the commentary, one of the finest examples of[…]

Second week
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Second week at my cookery class, and we actually get our hands on some hot oil. I’m a bit worried when my bhaji-mix is looking a much darker orangey-brown than everyone else’s (onion + gram flour = yellow, mostly). But CB points out that[…]

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Tim’s post about aesthetic fascists in football
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Tim’s post about aesthetic fascists in football seems to be an expansion on the basic comment of ‘just what is it with Spurs fans?’ I’ve thought for some time that they are willingly cursed by the comment by Danny Blanchflower[…]

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