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  • Star Wars Kitsch

    Nick sings the Star Wars theme in a lounge style One of my regular reads, the website at the end of the universe, has done a fantastic update on Star Wars kitsch, including Bill Murray singing the Star Wars theme, lounge-lizard style, and citing the Chewbacca Defense (South Park’s Eddie Cochran citing the fact that

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  • The Essential Ghoul's Record Shelf: CRISWELL PREDICTS | mae west

    The Essential Ghoul’s Record Shelf: CRISWELL PREDICTS | mae west Following up on Kong! I’ve been listening to the rest of Dr Mysterian’s archive and reading his potted histories of the genesis of each of these truly weird and morbid songs. The first of them is a nutsoid Mae West singing about a psychic she

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  • Life Update (for those who care.)

    Ah, the stench of that dark cloud hung over us yesterday as we all trudged home from work, feeling like we were fleeing the Martians (H.G. Wells’ original Martians that is, not whatever spitworthy mass media Martians were conjured up for the movie.) My trudge had a little more bounce in it, despite the miasmic

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  • Kroney

    Oh, yes, before I forget Chris Warr, a man of unparalled esteem, came up with a wonderful neologism; Kroney, for a lady who from behind looks 16 but from the front looks 64. (Kronenberg 1664 being the link to Crone.)

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  • KONG!

    Absolutely excellent Kong song from The Essential Ghoul’s Record Shelf. Worth a download just to hear the inexplicable shouts of Kemo Sabe Kong! (Via Boing Boing)

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  • Lock Out

    Yes, I got locked out again. I got back to my flat at 11p.m. after working late and explicitly refusing to go to the pub cos I wanted an early night, to find that my landlord, bless his ozzie socks, had been in to show the flat to a surveyor for remortgaging and locked the

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  • The Grill of Babylon

    Woo! I’m doing Metal Hammer‘s game reviews section jointly with young MasterGillen (no not that one), for this month anyway. We need to come up with a name for ourselves though – they rejected Gril N’ Gil for sounding fay. Which is fair for a metal magazine… Anyway, I’ve been forced to put a bit

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