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the urgent food science that DARE NOT SPEAK ITS NAME
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or a VARIETY OF ITEMS that have been compared to the BODYFLUIDS of a VARIETY OF SPECIES
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a. BUDWEISER (human)
b. LAGER GENERALLY (gnat’s)
c. MISO SOUP
d. “your majesty is like a stream of bat’s p!ss” (old graeme g4rden radi[…]

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WikiHow the internet How-To manual
Including how to: mosh in a mosh pit, appreciate death metal, find a lost cat, look emo, be indie and many more[…]

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We’re through the looking glass people…
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I.T.s the same. But different.

Proof that parallel universes exist. And you know what, the set-up will probably suit the production techniques of a US sitcom.
(From Dark Horizons – who also report that Zoe Slater from ‘Stenders IS The Bi[…]

Writing In Their Footsteps
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My Pitchfork column this month is a short exploration of what good music criticism can still do in an instant-access era. It came out of a bunch of conversations and ILM and Poptimists posts and is more of a series of notes and examples than a fully-[…]

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Coelacanths ATTACK!
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Prime-time ITV Saturday teatime drama about dinosaurs attacking modern Britain. How we laughed and muttered “Cheap Doctor Who rip-off” under our breaths. Well I should take that breath back, and the mutt’rin’ too: last week I […]

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Just go and read it in Smiths or something…
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You can’t really blame them for not having an on-line version of the magazine, so I urge you all to track down a copy of this month’s When Saturday Comes with Jose on the front, and read the Match of the Month column by Ian Plenderleith. […]

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Eurovision Song Contest 2007 Reviewed By A Five Month Old Baby
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I am fairly sure he won’t thank me for this in later life. I can always take the post down!
Anyway to enliven the ESC this year we decided to watch it with our baby and take a photo of his reactions to each performance.

Initial picture for con[…]

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Tanya’s Army Of Awfulness: WARRANT (OFFICER) – Cherry Pie
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“Damn fine Cherry Pie”. Such was Agent Smith’s catch phrase in David Lynch whacked-out-a-thon Twin Peaks. (A TV show responsible for not only Julee Cruise’s aural mogadon “Falling” but THE ENTIRITY OF MOBY’S […]

Poptimism – Lesson Thirty Eight
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Innocence – Björk
Where Were You in 92? – MIA
Atlantis To Interzone – Klaxons (Hadouken! ‘Remix’)
Letter from God – Scroobius Pip and Dan Le Sac
I Am Somebody – DJ Mehdi (Switch remix)
Make the Logo Bigger &[…]

THE FT TOP 100 SONGS: 60: DIANA ROSS – “Upside Down”
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Kat Stevens writes:
It’s 1997, and the Brit Awards organisers are trying to recover from the previous year’s Jacko/Jarvis debacle. The Spice Girls steal the show and the Manics’ rendition of A Design For Life ensures sales of Everyt[…]

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