Archives – 2005 – September – 26  

Strangest Thing No.19 – Statues That Drink Milk
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Alix Campbell writes:
Statues, icons and paintings cry and bleed all the time. It can happen to almost any figure – the Virgin Mary, Jebus, any number of obscure saints, and even a Dutch statue of Elvis. Liquids exuded include blood, tears and oil.[…]

WHO BUILT THE MOON WATCH: Chapter 4
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Writers are still being very coy about who built the moon in Chapter 4. Instead we have a potted history of the space race, which is interesting la, but no-one is suggesting Neil Armstrong built the moon. Maybe some mooncastles. There is a bit of a l[…]

Next stop Ducks Deluxe!*
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I am listening to a track by THE ROOGALATOR! Another tiny ambition fulfilled, it’s called “Love And The Single Girl” and it’s a bit ‘jazzy’, like a naffer Joe Jackson maybe. It will not be being played at the next […]

J.G.BALLARD: “My work is done here”
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“The crew of the Blyth-based Oceania accidentally left their radio switched to the emergency channel on Thursday as they were off the North East coast. They then settled down to watch the film Crash on a TV which was next to the radio – n[…]

WHO BUILT THE MOON WATCH: Chapter 3 SuppleMENTAL
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More on the Big Whack theory and its problems…
http://www.pbs.org/wgbh/nova/tothemoon/origins2.html
Note that the Nova website is pbs.org and therefore completely Proven By Science. There is even a video of the model.[…]

WHO REVIEWS #ef6: cat lick your heart….
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MANAGRA by Stephen Marley, featuring the Fourth Doctor (huzzah!), Sarah Jane Smith and a cast of thousands…
“Europa is invested by ghosts, vampires, werewolves, ghouls and other grotesques spawned from old European folklore. I think we’re in a […]

THE FT TOP 23 UNEXPLAINED PHENOMENA: 20: The Face Of Jesus On Toast
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Or indeed the face of Elvis burnt into a deBrevilled Toasted Sandwich. Perhaps even the name of Jehovah in the seeds of an aubergine. The commonplace occurrence of this phenomenon has never been explained, but used as definitive proof of God’s exis[…]

Good ILE Thread Alert
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Racial puppetry in right-wing comics – fascinating and well-researched stuff, right-wing strips (as opposed to editorial cartoons) have never really caught on in the UK so it’s hard to think of an equivalent for this kind of thing. Also j[…]

Day 47: Mexican Divorce
AROUND THE WORLD IN 80 LOUSY DAYS
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Crispian woke me up lying on the beach in Acapulco. I have to say, I had the most horrendous hangover. And whilst my head hurt it did not hurt as much as that of the imbecilic Passepartout I was travelling with. You see as soon as I realised what had[…]

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