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Three weeks at number one from 9th January 1982There’s a sketch in the series “Big Train” which portrays Ralph McTell struggling to engage with an audience who only want to hear his hit “Streets of London”. Whenever he begins to play anything else, everyone gasps in astonishment at his audacity, and begins heckling furiously until he is forced to concede and play the song again. And again. It does a …

Tickets for my final Southbank walk until next summer: The South Bank – Marsh, Industry, Culture and the Festival of Britain, on the 20th of October, are now available by clicking here. I am back in Soho for this week’s post, continuing my exploration of Soho pubs, including one that claims to be “the West End’s best known pub”, and that “it’s a deeply loved London institution with a rich …

When some people want to learn to draw, they do it the “right” way. They take a drawing class, watch youtube videos, or buy a book – starting from the basics. I did no such thing and hopped straight to simply drawing what I see, even if the drawings turned out nothing like the actual object. one of my first drawings in this drawing phase – one of the many …

A new cassette edition of SAW II has been made available to preorder for those who missed out on the initial limited edition metal tapes. These ferric cassettes have been made in much higher quantities, so you shouldn’t have a problem acquiring a copy for yourself. You can preorder these new cassettes editions here. Also listening parties for the reissue of SAW II are being conducted globally, you can sign …

I was recently invited to be a guest on the Superspeaks | Microsoft EDU podcast on the BAM Radio Network. the topic at hand were technology integration frameworks in the age of Generative AI. I was joined by a literal who’s who of educational technology scholars, all of whom are involved in some way or […]

Searching For Truth in Chile’s Atacama Desert Icarus Films Patricio Guzman’s beautifully filmed documentary is an exploration of Chile’s remote and pristine Atacama Desert, an arid area that attracts three groups of researchers, each searching for answers to essential human inquiries. With his refined and rather pensive narration, Guzman connects the three apparently disparate searches […]

I wanted to carry bear spray on my recent tour through grizz country. A stem bag, such as the imitable Revelate Mountain Feedbag works well for this, but the two stem bags that are always part of my touring luggage system are already used for other purposes. There’s a number of people out there selling solutions to the problem of how to carry bear spray on a bicycle. I looked …

I have contributed an essay on Pulp for I'm With Pulp, Are You? which draws on the archive of imagery and memorabilia Mark Webber has been collecting since before he joined Pulp in 1995 - first as president of the Pulp Fan Club, later as tour manager. Along with his own reminiscences and the mass of photographs, flyers, record covers, set lists, stickers, posters

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The always cool Marcello MastroianniDon Knotts in The Ghost and Mr. Chicken Don Knotts and Tim Conway in The Apple Dumpling Gang Rides Again (1979)Don and Tim are terrorized by veteran character actor Jack Elam. Claudette Colbert, Herbert Marshall and William Gargan as shipwreck survivors in Four Frightened People (1934)Verree Teasdale The Top Moneymaking Films of 1948 The All-Time Top Moneymaking Films As of January 5, 1949 I was amused …

Find all previous and future episodes listed here or in your podcast app under “Barbican Station”. Go on a tour of the real locations seen in SLOW HORSES. Go to https://www.squaremilesecrets.com/slow-horses and enter the coupon code SLOUGH for 20% off your tour. We are back to break down all the excitement of the season four episode three of SLOW HORSES. I’m joined this episode by returning recapper Mary. We breakdown …

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A trait that seems to be core to my personality, but has definitely gotten me in trouble, is that I’m not one to ‘take sides.’ While I have affiliations (Oaklander, GenXer, Democrat), I don’t have much of a tribal sense. I never had school spirit. Apart from the companies I started, I was never employed anywhere for longer than 2 years. I voted for Nader in 1996 and 2000 (and …

Catherine Wheel ChromeGet It At DiscogsThe original title, Crank, would have been apt. Producer Gil Norton (Pixies, Echo & the Bunnymen) was brought in to toughen this band's sound and set them apart from the wave of U.K. upstarts who were pounding U.S. shores. That he did. But it's not necessarily progress; Talk Talk's master experimentalist, Tim Friese-Greene, gave Catherine Wheel's brilliant debut, Ferment, a dripping beauty, opulent textures illuminating …

Christopher Nolan's The Dark Knight, with Deirdre Molumby and Brian Lloyd. At time of recording, it was ranked 3rd on the list of best movies of all time on the Internet Movie Database. Show notes, including links: https://them0vieblog.com/2024/09/14/391-barbie-leaving-cert-2024/ Follow us on twitter at @thetwofifty.