Archives – 2005 – September – 19  

Dilettante Vigilante
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Bits of Nick Southall’s latest Stylus essay fits comfortably into a growing trend, anxiety over download culture and the hyperconsumption it allows. The cynic in me suggests that critics worry about this new world because it’s harder to f[…]

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Giant Rabbit Attack
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PIEDMONT: ITALY A sad looking corpse of a giant pink bunny is found on a mountainside. Authorities are hunting for potentially dangerous giant drunken Jimmy Stewart plundering the Alps somewhere.

Alternatively it could be art.[…]

Song Que – the new Wong Kei?
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Okay, the staff are not theatrically rude, as they are in Wong Kei, and this Dalston Vietnamese is much tastier. Nevertheless it is dirt cheap and about as filling as I want my food to be. And it is my first Vietnamese in London that does food like w[…]

Tintin On Stage
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In what might be his most daring adventure yet, join boy journalist and his grizzled hairy friend, and Captain Haddock the first stage production of his exciting adventure. At the Young Vic at Christmas.
Rumours that Tom Ewing has been seen muttering[…]

Shark (Jeans) Tale
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All the things which are wrong about Shark Tale are ironically all the interesting things about it. The fact that most of the jokes do not work unless you know who the vocal talent doing the joke is (Will Smith is playing a yellow fish, therefore it […]

Food Science – the meme spreads
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Seen at Victoria this morning, an advert for Holiday Inn with a picture of an egg and the text:
“Poached. Boiled. Scrambled. Then fried?”
the idea being that Holiday Inn will do your eggs any way you want, even the atomic way! Quite how t[…]

POPTIMISM #5 Giveaway CD Details
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On the cover is the smiling face of Al Martino. Sorry ladies, he’s 78.
The theme is ‘underrated number ones’
1. LORD ROCKINGHAM’S XI – “Hoots Mon”: Big end-of night feelgood stomper.
2. FLOYD CRAMER – &[…]

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