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FOOD SCIENCE DAY: An Introduction and Dedication
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Over the next week a varied bunch of reprobates will be posting on the Publog, Proven By Science, TMFD and even The Brown Wedge, the results of the 1st Liz Daplyn Food Science Day. Please be patient with these results, remember the writing up is half[…]

Just Some Bad Old Boys
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What was most interesting about the big screen Dukes Of Hazzard was exactly how unambitious it was. Granted they had more money than the TV show ever did, so there were a couple (and only a couple) of big stunts. But the humour, the plot and the char[…]

Dumber & Dumbest
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Just a quick note that Freakytriggers favouritest of Five television programmes is returning soon. How? After all, the irrepressibly gravel voiced Tommy Vance has gone to the great razor blade gargling parlour in the sky. Who could replace Tommy Vanc[…]

When You Ask Me If I Liked The Movie, The Answer Can Only Be
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Yes.
Sometimes you go and see a film just to dislike it. I think there was a bit of this about me when I went to see Sally Potter’s Yes, a film which proclaimed itself happily as being entirely in verse. And the opening soliloquy from Shirley H[…]

South Central, London
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An addendum to yesterdays NLA post. If you go to the website (or indeed the exhibition) , click on the Changing Face Of London exhibit. Enter, then follow the link to list projects, and finally click on South Central. You get this frank nonsense:
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Food Science Day Warm Up: Beer Science
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An experiment to see what a “Grey Beer” would taste like.
Reagents: 50% Budvar Dark (a traditional Czech Black Beer with strong molasses taste and equally strong alcohol content)50% Kronenberg Blanc (a remarkably citrusy White beer which is also […]

My Mutha Was A Hairdressa
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Actually she did six months sweeping the floor in a salon when she turned sixteen. As soon as it looked like she might have to be taken on as an apprentice rather than just be paid a thrupenny bob bit a week (her words) she was sent packing. Neverthe[…]

The Future Shape Of London
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Store Street has suddenly become arty. There have been a couple of galleries opening – including the Political Cartoon Gallery which confirms that political cartoons HAVE NEVER BEEN FUNNY. But best of all is the New London Architecture exhibit […]

THE HEY YA EXPERIMENT
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Premise 1: The rap artistes Outkast released the single Hey Ya in 2003. It was very, very popular.
Premise 2: With its instantly recognisable into and catchy beat, it quickly became a banker in any popular music disc jockeys set.
Premise 3: So much s[…]

Food Science prequel: Pork Tatin
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In which two different types of food are rammed together in one. It came to me that pork is good with apples, and that there must be a fancy, schmancy way of presenting this that just a gloop of baby food on the side. Thus the idea of Pork Tatin was […]

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