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Catatonia
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Picture if you will the dying throes of Britpop (the dying bit is unfortunately a metaphor here). The kids, slowly turning off their Oases and Blurs with the feeling the had been robbed, which they had. What did indie music have to throw up? The only[…]

I wrote a short plot treatment for a film course I did about seven years ago called Penis Envy
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I wrote a short plot treatment for a film course I did about seven years ago called Penis Envy. The premise was two conjoined twins joined at the penis. Finally in adulthood the pair get separated, with the proviso that one of the pair gets all the p[…]

It is a good job Thirteen is called Thirteen…
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Because without that title you could happily assume that the protagonist are actually supposed to be fifteen or older. The age of the leads is one of the key points, thirteen is teenage but we think of delinquency really kicking in just before adulth[…]

Britney Spears has married Jason Alexander.
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Wow – there is an unlikely celebrity pairing. Mind you I have seen Seinfeld and it was unclear he would ever get hitched to anyone. He eats stuff out of the bin after all. As long as it isn’t touching anything else.
Any potential connecti[…]

Sculpting Sand: Dry In The Hand, Like Putty In The Water.
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Sculpting Sand: Dry In The Hand, Like Putty In The Water. Now I am not sure of the chemical construction of said toy sculpting sand, but I do know that the claim to be like putty in the water is hyperbolic to say the least. Unless your use of putty i[…]

Kinflicks – Lisa Alther
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Kinflicks – Lisa Alther
The best book I read over Christmas was this feminist coming of age novel from the mid-seventies. Telling the tale of the sexual misadventures of the lead Ginny Babcock the book could be seen as coming from the Erica Jon[…]

Heroic multiple updates week.
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Heroic multiple updates week. Lack of computer access means there are loads of things to talk about from the Christmas period coming down the pipe so regular updates all day for the next couple of days. Hopefully other Do You Seers will be interuptin[…]

45. PET SHOP BOYS — ‘Flamboyant’
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The only recent PSB tracks I really like are the ones which cast Neil Tennant as a spectre at the celebrity feast; too old, too wise, cursed to observe. ‘Flamboyant’ is one of these — a darker cousin to ‘Shameless’ with […]

Tom’s Tracks of 2003 – 50-46
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50. FABOLOUS feat TAMIA — ‘Into You’
As I write this I’ve been married two months to a woman I’ve been with for twelve years. There were times when I thought it was going nowhere, when I’d have put money against us[…]

Freaky Trigger Tracks Of 2003
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Freaky Trigger Tracks Of 2003: This was meant to be an article, and was meant to be one of a number of year-end articles going up around this time. Unfortunately we’re still in a bit of a limbo vis-a-vis getting our domain name transferred to o[…]

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  1. "at one point a character literally dusts him". That part was hilarious!

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

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

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

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