25.06.09
They may not have had the internet on which to showcase their writing, but all in all I think lit mags had better designed covers in the early part of the last century than they do now. Ironic. [More at Room 26 Cabinet of Curiosities]

They may not have had the internet on which to showcase their writing, but all in all I think lit mags had better designed covers in the early part of the last century than they do now. Ironic. [More at Room 26 Cabinet of Curiosities]

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"Writing a blog post is a lot harder than posting a status update, putting a funny link on someone’s Wall, or tweeting. People are still reading blogs, and other content. But for the creation of amateur content, their heyday for the wider population has, I think, already passed. The short head of blogging thrives. Its long tail, though, has lapsed into desuetude."

The long tail of blogging is dying: Charles Arthur in The Guardian

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Swells Dies. Caps Lock Buttons Sigh In Relief

Oh. Bugger. Swells is dead. For many people my age, Steven Wells ranting, apoplectic music journalism was an essential read in the inky NME each week, gurning between his intense cohorts waxing lyrical about the “sonic cathedrals” committed to disc by pale young men with guitars and floppy fringes. In subsequent years I occasionally read him in The Guardian, but didn’t realise that he had moved to Philadelphia and wrote for the Philadelphia Weekly - who have published his last, very moving column.

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Why sports anoraks are all genital sniffers

A classic Steven Wells column from 2002, shortly after he had started writing for The Guardian about sport, of all things.

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Cardiacs: Big Ship (live in 1990) - And more sad news, this time that Cardiacs insane genius Tim Smith is much more seriously ill than was at first thought, following his health scare last year: “At the time of his cardiac arrest Tim Smith effectively died. Resuscitation allowed his passage back from that world of mists and spirits to this one of foetid edges and filth, but upon re-entering this VALE OF TEARS it became apparent that he had suffered a terrible brain injury from the inability of his faltered heart to supply its regular goodness in the quantities required to sustain a healthy condition within his brainbox.”

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"We have a problem with wallabies entering poppy fields, getting as high as a kite and going around in circles … Then they crash. We see crop circles in the poppy industry from wallabies that are high."

BBC News: ‘Stoned wallabies make crop circles’

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