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Sing a Song of Sixpence
I love musicals. Not indiscriminately, but plenty of my favourite films (from Cat Ballou to Guys and Dolls) are musicals, I’ll forgive shows like Glee and Flight of the Conchords a lot of flaws thanks...
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Smoke! Smoke! Smoke! (That Cigarette)
I’ve just finished reading The Beautiful and Damned by F. Scott Fitzgerald, and there are a lot of cigarettes in it. In fact tobacco seems to have been a recurring thread throughout a lot of the...
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Don’t Rain On My Parade
I’ve been putting up with horrible rainy weather for what feels like ages, and I’m sick of it. It’s supposed to be summer! I should be frolicking in the sunshine, not cowering from the outside world....
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If I promise to go to church on Sunday, will you go with me on Friday night?
♪ if you live with me, I’ll die for you, and that’s a compromise ♪ Eh, I’ve just about had enough of serious questions, and the resultant discussions, this week. So let’s bring on the levity instead!...
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Doppelgangland
People have long been fascinated by the idea of having a double- and fiction is full of such examples. Whether the doppelgänger is sinister or benign, important or incidental, they’re intriguing...
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It’s all getting a bit hairy
I was melting last week, and not because someone threw a bucket of water on my witchy self. It was unseasonably warm, which would have been fine and dandy if I could’ve spent all day sunning myself in...
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Interwhats?
I don’t understand the internet. I just don’t get it. That might sound mildly ironic (or just plain worrying) since I’m both sort of studying it, and using it right now. I’m not saying that I have no...
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Do They Know It’s Hallowe’en?
The Hallowe’en weekend of festivities is upon us, and I hope that you were all already aware of- and prepared for- that fact. If not, I fear that the North American Hallowe’en Prevention Initiative...
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Don’t be Afraid of the Dorks
I understand why someone might be scared to take a peek at the search terms that lead people to Pop Culture Playpen. Quite frankly they can get freaky. But there’s no need to worry, even though it’s...
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All I want for Christmas
Like Miss Thropist, I’m somewhat startled to find that it’s already December… which means sparkling lights, mulled wine… and battling increasingly harassed shoppers on crowded streets in the hopes of...
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Gloomy Sunday
The outside world looks rubbish these days. The skies are grey, everything’s blowing around in the wind, and there’s not even any snow to make up for it. Pah. This is definitely the time of year for...
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Bryter Layter
This Search Term Sunday comes to you from the addled mind underneath my brand spanking new haircut. I now look eerily like Nick Drake, and let’s face it, who wouldn’t want that? Since the last track...
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Lie back and think of England…
This is all about awful attempts at English accents! But I wish to preface the rant by pointing out that I don’t mind most terrible tries at an English accent. Really. Not everyone can manage it, and...
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The Hangover
March is a month full of celebrations- Holi, Purim, International Women’s Day, St Patrick’s Day, Mothering Sunday, the beginning of British Summer Time, and the chance to laugh at other people’s pain...
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Searchin’ every which a-way
It’s time, once again, to delve into the mixed grab bag of what people have been tapping into google in order to end up here over the last fortnight. Just in case you hadn’t realised: people scour the...
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