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Inevitable
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Inevitable – this would find itself here. So the Top 100 Number Singles in the UK list raises its ugly head. Its already drawn much criticism for its methodology on this very weblog, something that the articles and the television programme were[…]

The Institute of Contemporary Arts: aka ICA
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The Institute of Contemporary Arts: aka ICA. Its not a pub is it? Well, I guess not – but it has a bar which fulfils most of the pub pre-requisites in my book. It was salubrious, comfy and a good place for long ranting chats about arcane movies[…]

The Pub Seven Deadly Sins: 3: Fake Doors
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The Pub Seven Deadly Sins: 3: Fake Doors
There is a joke about this. “When is a door not a door? When it is the left hand door of the Lord John Russell.”
It is cold, dark and relatively late. You are scurrying to meet friends in a local p[…]

Fillums eh?
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Fillums eh? Tom claims to know not much about them, but I think its merely because its a difficult critical beast to muster. Writing about films already has a number of critical paradigms, there are degrees in the stuff – wheras degrees in Musi[…]

PUBLOG LIVE REPORT 22/12/00 – Supplementary
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PUBLOG LIVE REPORT 22/12/00 – Supplementary
Yet again – much like the publog appears to be set up to apologise for people – I must say the consternation caused to the gay couple (and first I have heard of their gayness – they […]

Kirsty MacColl dies in boating accident
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Kirsty MacColl dies in boating accident. I’m not sure if NYLPM is the place to announce this, especially considering that only last night in the pub I was doing my usual schtick about Kirsty MacColl on backing vocals equalling end of career (th[…]

How The Blue Posts Got Its Name
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Before Tom gets on to the Pub Of Failure, here is some information sent in by friend of the site Alex Thompson on the mystery of the Blue Posts name. (I rather like the sedan chair hailing stop explaination which I have a terrible feeling I may have […]

More end of year lists
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The Onion’s A.V.Club is always an interesting read, though with such a high-brow and snobbist tendancy that you certainly would not take anything they say without a pinch of salt. That said, they do revel in talking about bad things. After last[…]

Drinking Beer May Protect You From Cataracts
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From MSN. Of course drinking beer also has many other amazing health benefits as reported by the press in the last two years. Red wine reduces the chance of heart disease, breast cancer and cider prevents you from getting any mates.
Whither this kind[…]

As loathe as I am to continue this interuption
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As loathe as I am to continue this interuption (though I cannot say I am altogether proud of my antics in The Pub Of Sexism), the reason only men scab fags is that the ladies they are with ask them to do it. Ask in that “Twelve Tasks Of Hercule[…]

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