Archives – 2004 – November – 19  

Just because it’s Friday
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Just because it’s Friday
Two music writers, one of whom has a prominent regular writing gig, the other of which is giving music fans something actually useful and getting no money at all. Can you guess which is which?
1. Jess Harvell, whose sit[…]

FOOT-IN-DOOR PEER-REVIEW
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FOOT-IN-DOOR PEER-REVIEW :
andrew wakefield is the doctor who kicked off the debate about the MMR jab – and whether combining the measles mumps and rubella inoculation was possibly responsible for an as-yet unexplained surge in cases of autism[…]

LOVELY VIEW
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LOVELY VIEW:
the dying sun is staining the little rococo tower pink, but [office co-worker E] cannot see it properly as her window is still yucky and smeary from the tropical plant that used to stand against it until her predecessor left
as an art[…]

I am going to a gig tomorrow!
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I am going to a gig tomorrow! I had thought that – Glastonbury aside which is of course “not about the music man” (i.e. the music is atrocious) – this was my first gig in three whole years but I’d forgotten about Brian W[…]

On the last chapter of Vernon God Little
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On the last chapter of Vernon God Little. Yes or no? See a similar issue I had last year about a film for potential clues to this question. You will need to read the much more entertaining than I expected* book to make up your own mind about the answ[…]

BBC3’s go at serious documentaries recently
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BBC3’s go at serious documentaries recently actually consists pretty much solely of a docusoap called Paparazzi. Beyond the chummy calling of said photographers “Paps” the programme’s problem is in its identification with its […]

Football simulations have been done to death.
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Football simulations have been done to death. Be you a playing type of the FIFA Soccer or Pro Evo schools, or management boors wrapped up in Championship Manager. But there is one area of football simulation which has been sorely neglected. That of r[…]

Put it on our tab
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Put it on our tab
The spate of clubs going into some form of adminsitration recently has provided a fascinating look at the ways in which clubs operate through looking at who they owed money to. Hull achieved some notoriety by owing over ‘6000 […]

End of an era/PCGM!!!
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End of an era/PCGM!!!
I was rather shocked at seeing this story on ceefax last night. How can you take the beef out of bovril???? That just makes it marmite, shurely??? Although I reckon if I go out to tesco tonight and buy up all their PROPER bovr[…]

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