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Sex Bob-Omb: The Scott Pilgrim Musical!!!
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— 26 Aug 2010 Pete Baran 8 comments

Scott Pilgrim vs The World is a musical. It is a therefore somewhat of a pity that much of the music in it is pretty anonymous, there are no showstoppers here. It is exactly of a sort, though, the sort that you might imagine no mark Toronto indie ban[…]

Time Reconsidered as a Helix of Semi-Precious Who Eps: #7 PLANET OF EVIL
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— 26 Aug 2010 mark sinker 1 comment

or “i’ve got a very unpleasant theory!”
… being a show-by-show TARDIS-esque (ie in effect random) exploration of Doctor Who Soup to Nuts, begun at LJ’s diggerdydum community and from now on also crossposted at FT.
After dramaticall[…]

Time Reconsidered as a Helix of Semi-Precious Who Eps: #6 CITY OF DEATH
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— 24 Aug 2010 mark sinker 2 comments

or “most important punch in HISTORY!”
… being a show-by-show TARDIS-esque (ie in effect random) exploration of Doctor Who Soup to Nuts, begun at LJ’s diggerdydum community and from now on also crossposted at FT.
taking us back to the […]

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Colston Bassett Stilton (cheesy lover #93)
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— 23 Aug 2010 marna 9 comments

A soft-ish blue cheese from Nottinghamshire, bought from Neals Yard Dairy
Coming south from hence we pass’d Stilton, a town famous for cheese, whch is call’d our English Parmesan, and is brought to table with the mites, or maggots round it, so th[…]

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Fun with acid!
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— 23 Aug 2010 marna 4 comments

This is what happens when you dip a cheeseburger in hydrochloric acid. I want to try this at home![…]

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“If John Grisham had written Jurassic Park, he couldn’t do better than Tyrannosaur Canyon”
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— 22 Aug 2010 Hazel 3 comments

(Stephen Coonts, apparently)
I like to browse charity shops in search of amazing books. As I’m a bookseller if not by trade anymore then by something possibly stronger than genetics or space-time, this is not necessarily just a case of being pl[…]

Time Reconsidered as a Helix of Semi-Precious Who Eps: #5 THE TWO DOCTORS
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— 19 Aug 2010 mark sinker 1 comment

or “fruit-soft flesh peeling from white BONES”
… being a show-by-show TARDIS-esque (ie in effect random) exploration of Doctor Who Soup to Nuts, begun at LJ’s diggerdydum community and from now on also crossposted at FT.
So to follow a b[…]

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Terschelling Schapenkaas, Oude Remeker (cheesy lovers #91 & #92)
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— 18 Aug 2010 marna 1 comment

Terschelling Schapenkaas
A hard, pasturised sheep’s cheese from Terschelling, in the Netherlands, bought from Boerenkaas.
We have a wedge of this hard sheep’s cheese. Its interior is an opaque pale creamy white, smooth-looking, and dotted[…]

Time Reconsidered as a Helix of Semi-Precious Who Eps: #4 THE TIME MEDDLER
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— 18 Aug 2010 mark sinker 1 comment

or “nor would we be hampered by the MEAD”
… being a show-by-show TARDIS-esque (ie in effect random) exploration of Doctor Who Soup to Nuts, begun at LJ’s diggerdydum community and from now on also crossposted at FT.
It was a simpler age:[…]

The Friday Last FM Quiz – THE RESULTS!
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— 13 Aug 2010 Tom 8 comments

A couple of Fridays ago I set a simple quiz for FT readers – name the most-played Last.FM tracks of these 20 acts. 13 people replied, and here are the answers!
MGMT: The answer is “Kids”. 9 out of 13 people got this, the rest said &[…]

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