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Read Harder Challenge (2 of 24): HORTUS VITAE
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— 31 Jan 2018 Tom Comment

Hortus Vitae: Essays On The Gardening Of Life by Vernon Lee
(Read as part of the 2018 Read Harder challenge. Category: A book of essays.)
Vernon Lee, pseudonym of Violet Paget, was an essayist, story writer, and aesthete active in the late 19th and e[…]

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The Freaky Trigger Movie Poll 2017: #20 – #11
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— 30 Jan 2018 Pete Baran 9 comments

Hi, I’m Lori Quaid, just an ordinary boring housewife living my suburban life, doing housework and maintaining my 80’s hair. 2080’s hair of course, its 2084, the future where I live with my even more boring husband Doug. He’s […]

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2018 Music Diary Week 4: The Week Of Peel
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— 29 Jan 2018 Tom Comment

NEW MUSIC

Day 24: FIRST AID KIT – Ruins: Slickly produced, occasionally countrified, notes on romantic disappointment by a pair of Swedish sisters who sing with a Nordics-meet-Nashville twang. There’s nothing off-putting or irritating about this[…]

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The Freaky Trigger Readers’ Poll 2017: #10-#1
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— 28 Jan 2018 katstevens 22 comments

“Wotcher me old muckers. I’m Nena’s 100th Red Balloon, the one edited out of the final version of the song because I ‘wouldn’t scan proper’. We only come in packs of 100 you know. Whatcha got against a nice round n[…]

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The Inaugural FreakyTrigger TV Poll: 35 – 25
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— 27 Jan 2018 Pete Baran 7 comments

Hi I am Michael Franti and I am here to present the first ever FreakyTrigger TV Poll. Now some of you might remember me, and my clumsily named band, The Disposable Heroes Of Hiphoprisy and my opinion the Television was The Drug Of The Nation. You may[…]

And Then I Took Some Of THESE
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— 25 Jan 2018 Tom 2 comments

Mark E Smith, 1957-2018. Some things to read.
My favourite ever piece or sequence of pieces on The Fall is our own Kat Stevens’ stint on One Week One Band. It’s very wide ranging, very funny, and especially perceptive about the different […]

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2018 Music Diary Week 3: The Week Of Appropriation
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— 22 Jan 2018 Tom 5 comments

NEW MUSIC

Day 19: FALL OUT BOY – Mania: Short, and making no secret of its modern pop inspiration (there’s a song here with a reggaeton beat!), Mania underlines Fall Out Boy’s flexibility and their continuity. Basically, they’re all about th[…]

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The Freaky Trigger Movie Poll 2017: #30 – #21
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— 20 Jan 2018 Pete Baran 3 comments

Hi I’m Former U.S. Army Special Forces Colonel William Stuart, and I am just preparing to rescue General Ramon Esperanza, the rightful ruler of the made up South American country Val Verde. I have a foolproof plan to hold an airport hostage, at[…]

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The Freaky Trigger Readers’ Poll 2017: #20-#11
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— 18 Jan 2018 katstevens 8 comments

“Hi there, I’m the Heart of the Ocean, a fictional diamond necklace made famous by Britney asking whether I’d been chucked in the Atlantic Ocean or not when actually I was on MARS. My higher than average refractive index means I hav[…]

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Read Harder Challenge (1 of 24): SIX TO SIXTEEN
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— 15 Jan 2018 Tom Comment

Six to Sixteen: A Story for Girls by Juliana Horatia Ewing
Read as part of the Book Riot Read Harder 2018 Challenge (Category: “A children’s classic published before 1980”)
She’s no relation, but I’ve always had a curios[…]

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