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Party responsibly and don’t exaggerate!
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Your intrepid FT correspondents are today embarking upon an ambitious endeavour!
The London Borough Orgabooze is a semi-competitive points-based race around London, whereby teams of up to 4 people visit drinking establishments in each of the London B[…]

It’s the WORD World Cup (disclaimer: not really a world cup)
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Hullo all! For a project I am working on which I shall reveal soon(ish), I would like your wise suggestions in four categories:
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A: music writers all should read (two parts)
B: music writing all should read (two parts)
C: zone of exchange that al[…]

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Which Decade Is Tops For Pops? Round 2: the Number 9s.
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Historical background note: Phase One of “Which Decade”, which ran for seven years on my old blog, was nearly always timed to coincide with my birthday week in mid-February. So I’m glad that Phase Two has shifted to May – par[…]

Which Decade Is Tops For Pops? Round 1: the Number 10s.
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Hello! I’m Mike Atkinson, and over the course of the next three or four weeks, I’ll be overseeing an IMPORTANT EXPERIMENT IN PARTICIPATIVE DEMOCRACY, right here on Freaky Trigger. If you’ve ever visited my old blog during the month […]

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size of an OILSPILL! aka satan over the stipertones
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If you have google earth, then paul rademacher‘s plug-in will help you visualise the physical scale of this environmental disaster — just type in the locale of your choice as the epicentre[…]

In Which Lytton Age 3 1/4 Speculates on the Doctor Who Season Arc
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Contains potential SPOILERS! (more…)[…]

Pop World Cup – Weekend Update – Round of 16 – 2
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Two Pop World Cup managers in the studio this week, but hope is alive for only one of them. Honduras manager Steve Hewitt sits in with Roger Bozack and a bereft Peter Baran as Hewitt’s Honduran squad faces Portugal, Paraguay meet the Netherland[…]

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Pop World Cup on Resonance FM 104.4
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(Almost) all of this week’s pop footballing action will be reviewed and discussed tomorrow at 4pm on Resonance FM 104.4 by your faithful hosts, pictured in flagrante at right. This is a regular 30 minute show, broadcast every Saturday in London[…]

Pop World Cup 2010: Round of 16 Match 8 – Spain 1 Cote d’Ivoire 0
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It’s been a remarkably strong round of sixteen, and here we are at the end of it! Alberto’s Spain and Wichita Lineman’s Cote d’Ivoire both looked very classy in the group stages and both will be entertaining realistic hopes of[…]

Pop World Cup 2010: Round of 16 Match 7 – Honduras 2 Portugal 1
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On to match seven of the Round of Sixteen! Will it be a lucky seven for Carsmile Steve’s Honduras, making it through the groups stage with a heavy reliance on fine, fine reggaeton? Or will this match see Job de Wit’s Portugal side, much a[…]

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