02.07.09

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Sam Pink’s picture reminds me of some of my 1970s school photographs with my sister. I’m the one in the front obviously. Except without the girl’s clothing and the bow in my hair. Although it’s not so improbable that I might have been dressed like that - my parents were extraordinarily cruel.

Sam Pink’s picture reminds me of some of my 1970s school photographs with my sister. I’m the one in the front obviously. Except without the girl’s clothing and the bow in my hair. Although it’s not so improbable that I might have been dressed like that - my parents were extraordinarily cruel.

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01.07.09
Mrs Slocombe's Pussy Quotes

Oh, go on. You know you want to mark the death of Are You Being Served? actress Mollie Sugden by reciting a few of her classic lines from the 1970s sitcom, all of them featuring bizarre incidents involving her ‘pussy’. By which she meant her cat. Not her pussy. No, because that would just be vulgar.

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"At some point before the program concludes, pour a glass of water into the TV’s innards. Wait for the inevitable results, whether a spectacular explosion or merely a silent cessation"

Hydragenic | The Breakdown

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Isao Hashimoto: 1945–1998 - “A haunting visualisation of the 2053 atomic explosions that occurred on this planet, from the ‘Trinity’ test at Los Alamos, New Mexico, in 1945, to the Indian and Pakistani nuclear tests of 1998.” [via]

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"… there were 10 to 15 times more complaints from viewers about [the quantity of Michael Jackson coverage] than about BBC executives’ expenses, which were published last week"

The Guardian

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twitter666

“A journal of Twitter feeds from the normally seen and not heard”. Edited by Sam Pink and Martin Wall. I may be somewhere amongst the contributors. Then again, I may not.

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30.06.09
Wanna Speak With Commons People

Jarvis Cocker, complete with inadvisable beard, is going to be sitting round the Question Time table with David Dimbleby, forgotten Tory leader Iain Duncan-Smith, Labour’s Harriet Harman and, best of all, objectionable right-wing bigot Peter Hitchens. Unmissable viewing on Thursday evening, BBC1.

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I have now been listening to recordings of Numbers Stations for two and a half hours. I think it might be driving me slightly mad. Yet it’s also curiously compulsive. So much so, in fact, that I am pondering giving up all forms of writing and instead throwing what little creativity I still possess into setting up my own mysteriously unnerving radio presence somewhere in the hidden depths of Shortwave, so that I can sit in a darkened room with a single microphone and intone emotionless streams of numbers all day, every day.

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[Flash 9 is required to listen to audio.]

For your uneasy listening pleasure, there’s four CDs’ worth of Shortwave Numbers Stations available free of charge via The Conet Project.

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Album Names and Cold War Games: A History of the Numbers Station

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29.06.09
Giving up my iPod for a Walkman

<curmudgeon>13-year-old boy is given 30-year-old Sony Walkman to use for a week instead of his iPod. Hilarity ensues! “It took me three days to figure out that there was another side to the tape,” he says. That’s because you are going through the modern education system, and you’re stupid. “I can’t imagine having to use such basic equipment every day,” he adds. Oh shut up, you ignorant child - this is my history you’re trampling over with your smug, condescending attitude. I hope he was also given music from 1979 to listen to, for that truly authentic Walkman experience - much better than all this Dubstop, Electropica and Postal-Rock that pesky kids listen to today.</curmudgeon>

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28.06.09
Councillor's ban over gay remark

A local councillor in Wales referred to homosexuality as “a notorious disability”, saying that “the modern culture is to defend these people from any form of discrimination. Hurray for diversity”. Then he went on to claim that he had recently found a book (yes, apparently he can read) which suggested “that homosexuality is a demon which can be driven out”. But it’s okay, everyone, because he further clarified his stance: “I respect them as someone who is struggling with a disability as I would with someone in a wheelchair”. Finally, he rounded things off by crying as he read passages from the Bible during his disciplinary hearing.

Nurse, the screens.

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Delinquents, 1972 [via]Or maybe it&#8217;s just a Supergrass photo shoot?

Delinquents, 1972 [via]
Or maybe it’s just a Supergrass photo shoot?

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