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Songs about or by puppets #7: Marvin Gaye – “I’m Your Puppet”
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Marvin, Marvin – where have you gone? Oh yeah, your dad shot you. And frankly with songs like this, do you blame him? Just look at the lyrics.
I’m just a toy, just a funny boy
That makes you laugh when you’re blue
I’ll be wond[…]

The characters in Before Sunset
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The characters in Before Sunset (and nine years ago in Before Sunrise) are insufferable. And yet, and yet… Have we not all been there. Before Sunrise was university dorm room seduction by half-arsed philosophy for ninety minutes. Your ability t[…]

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I Was A Goblin: Roll 3d6
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Role-playing is a resource-intensive hobby. Aside from the ridiculous number of available rulebooks, supplements, pre-written adventures and so on, you need two things: time and people. I had plenty of time – people were more of a problem. It w[…]

Happy Birthday Kate Bush!
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Happy Birthday Kate Bush! A reader has emailed to ask that NYLPM mention that it’s Kate Bush’s birthday (don’t know if it’s a particularly significant one or anything) – NYLPM is happy to oblige. “Babooshka”,[…]

Some welcome optimism
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Some welcome optimism from America’s greatest living movie critic here on my favourite subject: the way DVDs are changing movies. Surely the biggest factoid of the year is that, as the editor of Sight & Sound has said, theatrical[…]

Hole–I’m Dying.
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Hole–I’m Dying.
When Ms Love sings I’m Dying, Please on this track, one thinks that she is begging god and her self just to let it happen…It’s sad and its tragic, Celebrity Skin is all about (among other thing[…]

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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…

  6. 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…