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Unified Theory of Cheeseboard Part 1
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From each category of the mainstream bacterial/microbial/fungal actions that make cheese CHEESY, I chose a favourite from what I’d reviewed so far. I assembled them together, and got some folks around to eat them for me, and rate each of them o[…]

Montgomery’s Cheddar (cheesy lover #100!)
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Tomorrow I’ll be revealing my favourite cheeses from the 100 I’ve written up here, and I’ll be harnessing the powers of drunken chums science to work out the Supreme Winning Champion Cheese. But for now, here’s cheese 100.
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Freaky Trigger presents A Slug of Pop (series 3, week 4)
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A special episode of Lollards this week, as Tom Ewing and Mark Sinker each talk about a pop song of their choice, with Tim Hopkins asking them the difficult questions. How is putting Lakshminarayanan Shankar on your record a crass commercial move? Ar[…]

Time Reconsidered as a Helix of Semi-Precious Who Eps: #10 DESTINY OF THE DALEKS
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… 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.
OK for my tenth re-view, I have before me (a) the very famous ([…]

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Brunet and Gorgonzola Picante (cheesy lovers #98 & 99)
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Brunet
A small Italian goat’s cheese from The Tasting Room
This round little goat’s cheese comes sitting in its own cupcake wrapper. A label sits directly on the cheese, depicting a hairy, horny goat. The cheese underneath is a pale cream[…]

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The Curse Of The Cross-Dressing Heroine
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It may be a hackneyed old plot which is rarely dragged out today (bar tomboyish starring teen movies*), but cross dressing women trying to pass as men has been around for a while. And the difficulty with this age old plot is that when it was all the […]

Freaky Trigger and the Lollards of Pop – Series 4, Week 3
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ART!
http://freakytrigger.s3.amazonaws.com/podcasts/lollards/Freaky-Trigger-30-09-2010-80.mp3
This week we talk of art (visual) with Tim, Kat and Rob, including Tony Hart, GCSE coursework, Candice Breitz and Pop about Art. Featuring music from Art B[…]

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Blu di capra, Scamorza affumicata (cheesy lovers #96 & #97)
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EXCITEMENTS next week will include not only cheeses 98 – 100, but also the CHEESY LOVER 100 CHEESES AWARDS, where I’ll be choosing my favourites of the 100 so far tried, and combining them together on a supercheeseboard. And then eating t[…]

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