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SCI-FI FOR KIDS: it begins (ft.GUESS MY THEORY slight return)
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dateline angel: just spent half an hour wandering round wonderin WHAT STARTED ME on SF at all? some possibilities…
i. dr duck and the duckleks (sole ref on web = mex10000000) — i remember only the climax of one ep (bcz i wz bein babysat a[…]

BBC Reports BBC Getting Tube Station
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Two new Tube Stations? Well one new station and one new name. Shepherd’s Bush, on the Hammersmith and City line is to be renamed Shepherd’s Bush Market, one assumes for the sensible reason that the Piccadilly line Shepherd’s Bush st[…]

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Christian Bale: IN FISHNETS!
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What has this charming young lady got to do with the terrific film The Prestige. Couldn’t I have found a picture of Scarlett Johanssen to illustrate some point about the movie instead, rather than this fishnet, top-hat combo? Or maybe the ladie[…]

TORCHWATCH: Photographing Fairies
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(Running a week behind, though not slipped as far as Robin Hood the Emo Years Watch) The trailer to this episode promised if not to fill in the seemingly important mysteries about what Captain Jack has been up to and fill-out some of his past exploit[…]

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The Royal Wii
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Yes, it’s the Nintendo Piss-station! I will be wanting a wee soon, you’ll be wee-ing all day etc. Now I’m slightly more scatalogically inclined than many, but I think I only took about one (1) day to hear through the sound of the na[…]

Non-Thriller For Kids: The Tripods, Series One
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When The Tripods was first shown I was eleven – just about the right age to be excited and disappointed by it. I can remember a playground buzz around the show, stoked by Blue Peter clips – and I can remember (though more dimly) general a[…]

key moments in the history of management theory
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lincoln’s gettysburg powerpoint[…]

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RobEmoWatch 5: i suppose a quick tuck’s out of the question then?
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Apologies for lack of service — I have somewhat sadly concluded that RH has NOT really er “found its rhythm” this series, even tho I think its badnesses remain ODD rather OBVIOUS, and that this project doesn’t lack for ideas […]

No Ticket To Wine, No Credibility
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Scattered thoughts on Love by Beatles Band*.
– OK, a lot of this is, or once was, really brilliant pop music. But why does this artefact exist? (more…)[…]

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THRILLERS FOR KIDS! — #4 le cheval sans tête
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51 years old, and more widely known in the UK as A Hundred Million Francs, this rereads as potently as ever, despite the by-now somewhat clunky translation (the always tricky problem of slang). Gaby’s is I think the BEST KID GANG EVER — t[…]

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