This Daft Old Face

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TV A couple of final links for old time's sake. Firstly: Doctor Who: Revolutionary Or Tool Of The Man? [ via ] Semi-satirical in...

"Quoteless."

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Comics The marriage of Peter Parker and Mary Jane is no more. In a recent issue of The Amazing Spiderman , Pete made like Faustus and ag...
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"Did I regret it or do I regret it now? Not for a second." -- Gillian Anderson

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Film Gillian Anderson's been keeping an irregularly updated blog for a few years . Last April she addressed the whole apparent love/h...

"I'm flinching, now. Something bad's going to happen, I can just feel it." -- Anna Pickard

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TV Anna live blogs the celebrity Big Brother hijack thing : "Jeremy's a cock. Sorry, sorry, Jeremy is a public schoolboy and a r...

"It’s like our time together is just ours: it’s our own creation." -- Celine, 'Before Sunrise'

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Film Love and Fate in The Clock and Before Sunrise -- comparing similar films fifty years apart: "The aspect of each film that I w...

“I sense a… conflict, and a clash of philosophies between you and your family…”

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Blog! Someone's begun blogging properly again and goodness me is it brilliant : "One Sunday when I was seventeen, I went with so...

"When we look back on the noughties, how will we remember them?" -- The Guardian

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Film The G2 section of today's Guardian was given over to an amazing collection of essays suggesting "the events, objects and tr...

Beautiful Chaos.

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Books I watched the final three episodes of season four again last night for the first time since they were transmitted. There are some e...

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Medicine Stephen Fry has posted x-rays of his broken arm. Nasty. "Quite a smash as you can see and it has taken me some time to re...

"For me it began with a call from Stuart Doughty." -- Stephen Gallagher

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TV TV writer Stephen Gallagher discusses his work on the nineties BBC action series BUGS . He was but a writer yet still had quite a lot ...

"Saturday night, I watched channel five, I particularly liked CSI." -- Kate Nash, 'We Get On'

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Music For over a year, Guardian Unlimited has been running a New Band of the Day column in which they talk up some new singer or group. ...

"Polar exploration is at once the cleanest and most isolated way of having a bad time which has been devised." -- Apsley Cherry-Garrard

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Science How do you go to the toilet in the Antarctic? From the experts: "Number 1 It’s freezing, everything turns solid in moments...

Not Review 2007: Corrections and Clarifications

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Errors In my review of the festive tv offerings I said : "The limit is probably ITV’s Countdown to Midnight: Take That and Guests at ...

Their names fit their jobs #1

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TV Midlands weather girl, Sara Blizzard .

Not Review 2007: Television

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TV I was pleased as gluvine to able to contribute to Off The Telly 's 2007 in review round-up . As usual I wrote far more text than c...
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Not Review 2007: Predictions

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That Day That time of year anyway. Last year I decided to be very specific with my predictions . Let's see what happened shall we? ...

"Give me one more night...." -- Phil Collins, 'One More Night'

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Life This is a strange kind of limbo, the day before the end of the year, nearly a week since Christmas. I'm back at work come next w...

"Insanity is knowing that what you're doing is completely idiotic, but still, somehow, you just can't stop it." -- Elizabeth Wurtzel

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Law Elizabeth Wurtzel interviewed on the occasion of her graduation from law school . The writer spends most of the wordage ploughing ove...

"When the time is right, we will emerge and take our rightful place as the supreme power of the UNIVERSE! " -- Daleks, 'Genesis of the Daleks'

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TV Wil Wheaton's just discovered Doctor Who : "The best thing about being a geek who makes a living writing about geek stuff is t...

Not Review 2007: Films

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Film Once again this year my cinema going was random at best. As I said last year, my approach to film releases has stopped being – chron...