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Happy Birthday
Radio Five Live is ten. Happy Birthday!
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Euro 2004 Spreadsheet
In 2000 I wrote an Excel spreadsheet which I called the Euro 2000 Wallchart. I called it this because come every major tournament, everyone I knew would get their poster, or newspaper pullout and chart England’s (and other teams) performance throughout the competition. There was nothing spectacularly original with this idea – I saw one…
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New York Times & Daily Telegraph
Today’s Telegraph is the first edition to appear with a New Yorks Times supplement. Under an agreement announced a couple of days ago the Telegraph is publishing a weekly broadsheet supplement from the NY Times. It’s a strange pair of bedfellows, since the Telegraph is just a tad on the right-wing side, and I think…
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Off-Roaders Banned From Ridgeway
I’m pretty sure that my email didn’t push them over the edge, but it’s good to see that 4x4s are to be banned from The Ridgeway. Campaigning and does do some good!
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Dasani Ditched
So Coke have announced that Dasani’s not coming back anytime soon. They’re going to tend their wounds and rethink the brand. I suggest that they re-evaluate European water drinking tastes. Supposedly France is/was next on the list. They’ve been drinking bottled water longer than most of us, and I just don’t see a not Natural…
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ALL NEW Entry!!!
Yes that’s right, this isn’t a repeat. It’s an All New entry. BBC3 is the latest channel to go down this ridiculous and mis-used path. During half-time in the football last night I was flicking around and stumbled over BBC3’s Celebrity Boat Race thing. Obviously an entirely pointless and uninteresting programme, but championed below the…
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Zatoichi
Zatoichi is directed by and stars Beat Takeshi Kitano. Well, he’s Beat Takeshi the actor Takeshi Kitano the writer/director. Most of Takeshi’s work makes it through to the west one way or another, but this is probably one his better pieces that I’ve seen. The story is set in 19th century Japan with Takeshi playing…
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Filming in Piccadilly Circus
Much interest this evening in some filming taking place in Piccadilly Circus. As a public place, it’s very hard to close off (that’s certainly the case elsewhere according to Film London). Anyway, precisely nothing was happening, and I was hurrying on to actually see a film (see next entry).
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Waterstones and David Icke
Waterstones has a new promotion in store at the moment, in which their staff have chosen their 150 favourite books which are displayed prominently in store, and press adverts highlight individual books accompanied by specific recommendations by staff members from around the country. (A brief aside here – I’m really not convinced that this is…
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Alex Cox Diary Stopping Again
I’m disappointed to read that Alex Cox is stopping his diary again. He wrote it for the Beeb’s film website for a while, but you get the feeling that it got a little too political for them. It’s a shame, because he’s an interesting guy who isn’t in the film industry for quite the same…
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The Singing Detective
I spent a large chunk of the weekend watching The Singing Detective for the first time since it was originally broadcast in 1986. Here’s an admission – I’ve still got the Radio Times from that week with a rather cool cover featuring the artwork from the series (think 1940s paperback pulp paperbacks). The series has…
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Yellowface/All The Lovers In The Night
Yellowface by R F Kuang I first came across R F Kuang with last year’s very enjoyable Babel, an alternate history of the British Empire told in a world where magic exists and is controlled by an elite group of individuals. Yellowface is very different, but no less enjoyable. It’s a book about books, and…
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