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thrillers by (grown-up) kids: some more agatha christie
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ok so now in my trek through a.christie decade by decade i have reached one i like unreservedly (=no.1 in the 1930s omnibus, The Sittaford Mystery, 1931, where she really finds a rhythm), so i am going to try and sum the 1920s AC for you
i. AC invent[…]

Radio Times readers drink the Cool Aid
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The furious Who Whype spinning around us throws up a gem from the Radio Times. RT asked their readers to vote for their Coolest People on Telly and guess who came top:

Doctor Who (David Tennant)

Jack Bauer in 24 (Kiefer Sutherland)

The Fonz in Hap[…]

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FT Periodic Table: Element 1: LOVE
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What a bunch of saps we are. But then if you ask fifteen people who have been on a pub crawl for six hours what is the thing that underpins the universe, well a slurred Love is not the unexpected response. Anyway, someone jumped the gun, because as w[…]

it’s the end of the videogaming world as we know it
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This is real Nostradamus end times fare: believe it or don’t but it’s confirmed by Nintendo: Sonic and Mario: together at last in Mario and Sonic at the OLYMPIC GAMES!! Oh. My. God. But Mario beating Sonic at speed? NEVER HAPPEN. Unless t[…]

Poptimism – Lesson Thirty Three (and a third)
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Gotta Work – Amerie
Au Arbres Citoyens – Yannick Noah
Get Down – Groove Armada ft Lady Stush (Calvin Harris Remix)
Stop Me – Mark Ronson / Daniel Merriweather
Head Over Heels – Tears For Fears
Fergie vs The Fray – […]

Land Of Pain And Glory aka I Blame Steve Redgrave
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Was struck this morning by an advert on the back of the freebie Sport magazine that gets given away at stations. It shows a finely hewn young man looking extremely serious, holding a bit of gym equipment shot in such a way to make it look as if he is[…]

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The FreakyTrigger Periodic Table
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What is the Periodic Table of FreakyTrigger? The best way to describe it is to firstly say what it is not, and then to say how it was made. If it all makes sense after that, then this truly is a project that you might get something out of. Here it is[…]

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Where is Tracer Hand or Whittling Nuncle Carsmile?
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Its is twenty five years of the Sony Radio awards. Do Sony even make radios anymore? Anyway as an occasional avid listener to radio, I always keep a wary eye on the machinations of this awards bash. It is an odd industry bash, one which provides enou[…]

A Musicologist Writes
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In the old days, we used to link a lot to good blogs we’d found. I think this practise should make a comeback, starting with Dial “M” For Musicology, which is a wide-ranging, generous-minded and jargon-free look at music and music d[…]

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Century Falls
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Century Falls was one of the children’s drama series that kicked off Russell T Davies’ career: I’ll come clean and say it’s unlikely I’d ever have watched it if not for this connection to Doctor Who – I was curious which of Davies’ c[…]

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