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Why Blink?
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Here’s a pair of quotes from online stuff I read recently. First, Kevin Fanning on the Buffy musical episode:
“I asked Twitter people to send me their recommendations for the best episodes and the response was overwhelmingly in favor of O[…]

The Best Thing You* Wrote All Year
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*where “you” are the people on Twitter or Tumblr who answered the question, “What’s the best thing you wrote all year?”. This includes some very good people, so let’s celebrate the casting away of false modesty and[…]

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The Freaky Trigger Readers Poll 2010
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We are having our first ever Readers Poll this year! It’s only going to be a little poll, with just one category – the best tracks of the last year. If you’re reading this, and especially if you’re a regular reader or commente[…]

X-Factor Crystal Ball
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MIGHT CONCEIVABLY MAKE A GOOD RECORD BUT PROBABLY WON’T: One Direction.
MIGHT CONCEIVABLY MAKE A GREAT RECORD AS LONG AS WILL I AM KEEPS HIS GRUBBY PAWS OFF: Cher Lloyd
WILL MAKE A DISAPPOINTING BUT COMPETENT RECORD: Rebecca Ferguson
WILL MAKE […]

Freaky Trigger And The Lollards Of Pop (Series 4 – Week 13)
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This week the Lollards reflect on Fame, and if they too want to live forever. Brushes with celebrity, real or fictional, the correct way to get an autograph of of a celebrity and the Panto – the SI unit of notoriety. And yes, wherever there is […]

Freaky Trigger And The Lollards Of Pop (Series 4 – Week 12)
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Another week, another conversation. This time I welcome a terrifyingly well-informed team of Magnus Anderson, Al Ewing and Martin Skidmore to talk about something I (demonstrably, audibly) know very little about – the history, present and pract[…]

Freaky Trigger And The Lollards Of Pop (Series 4 – Week 11)
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DJ Steve Braiden joins Alex Macpherson and host Elisha Sessions on Resonance FM 104.4 to talk about the furrow of club music being busily excavated by Night Slugs and associated factions. We hear an interview with Girl Unit (aka Phil Gamble), we talk[…]

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Time Reconsidered as a Helix of Semi-Precious Who Eps: #13 ROBOT
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or “Computers are very sophisticated idiots”
… being a show-by-show TARDIS-esque (ie in effect random) exploration of Doctor Who Soup to Nuts, begun at LJ’s diggerdydum community, and crossposted at FT.
Fondly remembered old-school nut-and-bo[…]

Freaky Trigger And The Lollards Of Pop (Series 4, Week 10)
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Guests were Cecily Nowell-Smith, Marna Gilligan and Alasdair MacLean; Hazel Robinson on kn0bs; Mark Sinker was presenter. Topic = how much does it matter to do stuff right, and what’s going on when doing stuff wrong stops being wrong?
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Time Reconsidered as a Helix of Semi-Precious Who Eps: #12 THE INVASION OF TIME
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or “built like a brick shipmaze”
… being a show-by-show TARDIS-esque (ie in effect random) exploration of Doctor Who Soup to Nuts, begun at LJ’s diggerdydum community, and crossposted at FT.
Massive epochal 1978 six-parter T[…]

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