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Time Reconsidered as a Helix of Semi-Precious Who Eps: #4 THE TIME MEDDLER
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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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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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I rather regret putting that in my mouth (cheesy lover special WRONG FOOD edition)
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Asda’s summer stilton might be the pinnacle of cheese-with-stuff-in wrongness. It’s white stilton with – can I remember this? can I ever forget it? – white chocolate, vanilla, orange peel, and peach. I needed to try it.
And wh[…]

Time Reconsidered as a Helix of Semi-Precious Who Eps: #3 THE INVISIBLE ENEMY
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or “i KNOW what noetic means!”
… 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 appears that LOVE(<–[…]

guess my theory: guess that tune
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Sex and drugs and rock and roll
Is all my brain and body need
Sex and drugs and rock and roll
Are very good indeed
(Ian Dury and the Blockheads)
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You’ve got to fight for what you want
For all that you believe
It’s right to fight fo[…]

Time Reconsidered as a Helix of Semi-Precious Who Eps: #2 THE SONTARAN EXPERIMENT
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or “the invasion of the stiperstones”
… 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.
in a strange symmetry, th[…]

Guardian Columns Archive
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Since January I’ve been doing a column in the Guardian every fortnight. These are written for a slightly different audience than my loveable pop-crazy readers here, and it’s also the first time I’ve written regularly for print (web […]

Time Reconsidered as a Helix of Semi-Precious Who Eps: #1 THE HORROR OF FANG ROCK
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or “leela i have made a terrible mistake”
… 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.
In a bid to recoup[…]

I Wanna Be A Macro Man
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It’s the question that’s on everyone’s lips: what can the Bank of England tell us about women in music criticism? (more…)[…]

What Can You Learn From Last.FM? (Part II)
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In part 1 of this series looking at artist metrics on Last.FM, I talked about PPL (Plays Per Listener) and also the relative popularity of each act’s top track.
In this part we dig a little bit deeper into an artist’s catalogue, with two […]

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