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“Just A Bit Of Fun”
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This must be number one on the list “phrases you don’t want to find yourself saying”. Or more accurately, be reported as saying*. It means one of only two things:
– your thoughtless play has inadvertently caused some ghastly a[…]

Little Britain is the Boyzone
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Little Britain is the Boyzone
As is the way with list television, I stumbled into the 50 Best Sketches last night and got sucked in. Lord knows why, it was an intensely irritating programme. Comedians sitting around, discussing why a sketch is funny […]

dog versus bumblebee
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(incident occurred too late for ANIMALS blog so mentally shoehorn it into POLITICS blg by means of METAPHORICALISM plz thx)
SCENE: MY PARENTS’ HOUSE: My old room overlooks the neighbours’ backyard. They have a small black-and-white terri[…]

Ananova have good story, but greedily they want better story
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Ananova have good story, but greedily they want better story
Local news teams will be waiting with baited breath to see if this 16 goal haul is actually a record: my hunch is no. My hunch is also that with a little bit of a backhander to an opposing[…]

So after extensive watching of the refurb,
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So after extensive watching of the refurb, I finally roused myself to wander down to the Shaftesbury. What had bothered me about its refurb was
a) cream walls, wood floor hell!
b) the decking out front
c) removal of televisions
d) seeming absence of […]

5 x 2? Surely that equals 10.
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5 x 2? Surely that equals 10. Which means that Francois Ozon’s new film is merely a remake of the Blake Edwards misogyny fest or Abbas Kiarostami’s driving round Tehran hating men film. On balance it is more of the latter, the male charac[…]

Blog 7’s April theme: Politics
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In April Blog 7 will be a blog about politics. However we are not going to announce this yet out of respect for the Pope.
I must say the delaying of the election date announcement (not the actual date of course) is most puzzling. Is it something the […]

Oi Mate, have you got “Election Day” by Arcadia?
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Oi Mate, have you got “Election Day” by Arcadia?
WE CERTAINLY DO. No Poptimism in April but after that we’ve got three dates lined up at the start of May, June and July for pop club summer fun action. The first of which is 5th May w[…]

TV Diary: Why?
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TV Diary: Why?
This wasn’t just a way of padding Do You See over the slow Bank Holiday weekend. I had been thinking about how most of the TV items here (and there aren’t enough) aren’t so dissimilar to the movie reviews. Nothing wro[…]

EMP Pop Conference – HELP ME OUT!
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EMP Pop Conference – HELP ME OUT!
OK, now I’ve finally received by flight confirmations I no longer feel I’ll be jinxing it by mentioning it again on NYLPM (plus you probably all know anway) – I will be going to the EMP Pop Mu[…]

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