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we are not speaking, therefore we are a breaking buckthorn
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— 8 Oct 2008 Elisha Sessions 4 comments

Team Slug apologises for the delay in posting last night’s episode of A Bite of Stars, a Slug of Time, and Thou — indeed, we had REAL LIFE S.F. AND PULP AUTHOR REBECCA LEVENE on the show — she once commissioned Doctor Who novels for[…]

Ted Williams’ frozen head has a myspace page
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— 1 Oct 2008 Elisha Sessions 1 comment

this week the slugz of time talk cryostuff as the inspiration (?) for futurama gets read out and discussed, interspersed with a forgotten olivia newton-john classic about fate and “the gift of life extension”.
as for Ted Williams’ f[…]

A Bite of Stars, A Slug of Time, and Thou – Episode 12
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— 30 Sep 2008 Elisha Sessions 1 comment

Magnus Anderson joins the Slug Lords to talk about Arsen Darnay’s short story, “Such Is Fate”. It’s about a gypsy, a sailor, a tank of liquified gas, and what we can learn from the past. Music comes via Olivia Newton-John and […]

A Bite of Stars, A Slug of Time, and Thou – Episode 11
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— 24 Sep 2008 Elisha Sessions 6 comments

Victoria de Rijke joins Mark Sinker and Elisha Sessions to talk about “Aye, and Gomorrah”, a tale of sexless astronaut prostitutes and the people who worship them. I’m not making that up! It was written by Samuel R. Delany in 1966 a[…]

A Bite of Stars, A Slug of Time, and Thou – Episode 10
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— 16 Sep 2008 Elisha Sessions 3 comments

“Track 12” by J.G. Ballard gets Slugged this week, with Richard Thomas joining Mark Sinker and Elisha Sessions to discuss it. Elisha reads this odd story of revenge via home recording in case you haven’t; music comes courtesy of Joh[…]

A Bite of Stars, a Slug of Time, and Thou – Episode 9
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— 10 Sep 2008 Elisha Sessions 17 comments

We pick up with Pete Baran joining Mark Sinker and Elisha Sessions for “Zirn Left Unguarded, The Jenghik Palace in Flames, Jon Westerley Dead”, written in 1972 by Robert Sheckley, read here by Elisha. Music includes the Electro Hippies, P[…]

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Slugs on parade
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— 8 Sep 2008 Elisha Sessions Comment

The slugs of time ooze back onto your radio dials tomorrow night at 10pm! The frequency you’ll need to tune into is the perpetually double-booked Resonance FM 104.4 in London, which also does a live web stream. If you miss it however – FE[…]

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olympic fashion watch – prequel
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— 20 Aug 2008 Elisha Sessions 3 comments

during the 2006 winter olympics in turin i developed an overweening and somewhat embarrassing crush on tempestuous skateuse IRINA SLUTSKAYA—she of the apple cheeks, mousy hair and how shall i put this—pleasing thickness that one does not no[…]

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Foiled again! etc etc
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— 9 Aug 2008 Elisha Sessions 3 comments

Unlike, say, sailing, fencing is a naturally telegenic sport. Violent and shrouded in darkness with dramatically spot-lit little runways for the fencers to jab at each other, each point of a bout will take up at most a few seconds of one’s prec[…]

Who Aggregates the Aggregator Aggregators?
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— 16 Jul 2008 Elisha Sessions 4 comments

And perhaps more importantly – who cares? If the impending closure of the obnoxiously “Web 2.0” BBC Sound Index this Friday is any guide, the answer is pretty clear.
Oh sure, the site boasts more than 22 million “comments, pos[…]

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