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Rob Emo Watch (Return!)
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i wasn’t really watching closely enough to make this an actual real REW, but tonight’s ep of robin h. featured LOLLARDRY! (or at least wycliffism)
UPDATE: didn’t think properly about this last night — robin is set in the reig[…]

babynaming 3: spell of the unown
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1: the pretty strata of all names
2: the peak of glinda
3: the epic arrival of xzavier
4: the return of jasper
5: the strange career of unknown[…]

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HauntaMAGOGraphy: The Ash-tree
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To read the story, click here; to read about our ‘hauntography’ project, click here.
“In March 1644 [Matthew Hopkins] had some seven or eight of that horrible sect of Witches living in the Towne where he lived, a Towne in Essex called Manin[…]

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THE FT TOP 100 TRACKS OF ALL TIME No. 33: Echo and the Bunnymen – The Cutter
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The wrong kind of rock and the wrong kind of snow….
“They do not like all that about ending and failing,” said Merry. “I should not sing any more at present. Wait till we do get to the edge, and then we’ll turn and give[…]

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nanobama
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“Each face is made of approximately 150 million tiny carbon nanotubes”[…]

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end times watch: robocop on a unicorn ’08
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this has been fairly widely linked in the last few days, but as a journal of record of such matters…[…]

the 2012 london olympics opening ceremony
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question: who should create and direct it?
preamble: the chinese capitalised (er haha) on A: a known gift for fireworks, B: a known gift for people prettily running with flags, C: spectacular oriental spectacle, D: a population as numberless as the p[…]

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furrealism
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walluc bistro
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ramshackle in a way you (i) don’t associate with london — candle-lit and shabby — walluc is the kind of place that you think mightn’t be there the very next morning; by day there’s a laundromat there, you can only find i[…]

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keyboards for crinoids: win-win oh wait
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HARD TO GET RID OF: Europe got japanese knotweed, japan got the piano, courtesy Philipp von Siebold
LARGEST FEMALE ON EARTH: “Across Europe, there has only ever been that Siebold sample. It is a female plant (the largest female on Earth, some argue[…]

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