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The Three Poshest People In The World
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Not in the habit of reading the Sunday magazine in the News Of The World I have missed out on Diana and WWII commemorative plates, and napkin rings of the Pharoahs. Nevertheless stumbling across this august pamphlet yesterday, I was astounded to see […]

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Toby Keith Eating Black Pudding In The Wenlock
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Lazy II
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Clerks II is Clerks ten years later. The plot is that in the interim period our two Clerks have moved on to working in a Burger restaurant when their convenience store burned down. The usual scatological and barely cogent pratfalls take place, with t[…]

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Freuding Tonight!
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How annoying is it for you to go and see a film that no-one else knows about, and walk out with the perfect description: only to find out everyone else agrees with you. Unconscious (Inconscientes in Spanish) is a Psychoanalytical Screwball Comedy. I […]

The International Irresponsible Drinking Exchange Scheme
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Tim Hopkins of this parish has been in Nashville for three days, count them, and already he is poluting their airwaves. Somehow he has found himself as a guest on Karaoke Blackout on WRVU . Still he gives FreakyTrigger a shout and has already invente[…]

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Let’s Remove The Arm Barring The Way To Poptimism
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That’s right, you heard it here now. The world famous, often imitated, always bettered, Freakytrigger Pop Music dancing and drinking club Poptimism has a new home. At least for a bit. Ousted cruelly by the new management at the Polar Bear a yea[…]

Climbing Up The News Ladder
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Have a country in turmoil? Want the world to know what is going on in your city? Want aid, want attention? WANT TO BE HEARD?
Well read the subtext of this little BBC editors blog piece. It starts off as a nice little compare and contrast piece, in th[…]

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Serious Art Criticism
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Man dressed up as Terracotta Warrior infiltrates Terracotta Army for Art Sake. Well, really what other sake would there be? This would be one in the eye for Banksy if Banksy ever did anything in person*. But why can’t it just be called a practi[…]

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A Picture As Excitingly Familar As Its Title
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I initially became aware of the film DOA in the trailers for Crank. This was somewhat ironic as Crank owes an awful lot to another film called DOA with this terrific poster (and its remake, DOA directed by the people who brought us Max Headroom). Bu[…]

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