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Omargeddon: Project Closure Report
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— 9 Jul 2025 Bec 1 comment

My attitude to creative writing projects is best contextualised by misquoting Zapp Brannigan’s take on pick-up lines: write as many of them as you can, as fast as you can. I know this is probably unwise, yet I feel compelled to start a project goin[…]

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Omargeddon #55: Is It The Clouds?
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— 6 Jul 2025 Bec Comment

Omar Rodríguez-López’s most recent solo album Is It the Clouds? dropped January 2024 (aptly on the Clouds Hill label) and was the first to follow 2016-17’s epic release schedule. While it’s not quite a traditional concept album, themes of gri[…]

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JAMES BLUNT – “You’re Beautiful”
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— 18 January 2026 Tom 19 comments

“Proof that one song is all it takes” as James Blunt’s Twitter biography put it. He knows what he’s known for, and in his post-superstar era he’s played his hand with great skill, cultivating a self-deprecating persona on social media as an[…]

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