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MP James
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Photographer (Portrait/fashion/club/event), code wizard, writer, and generally fabulous! He/They
“The Cabinet of Doctor Weststein” by Westbam. Best cut price album (50p!!) I’ve ever bought.
October 29, 2025 at 10:10 PM
The back flipping dog robot toy was such a cliche in the late 1990s-early 2000s in the UK that there was a BBC2 ident which parodied it. youtu.be/mFeMYMmtuxU?...
BBC Two 'Fluffy Dog' Ident
YouTube video by LambieNairnTube
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March 16, 2025 at 6:44 PM
Nice choice. I always thought it was the best of their John Leckie produced albums.
January 5, 2025 at 8:03 PM
… And getting there *before* the snow falls.

(And electricity.)
January 3, 2025 at 8:39 PM
More like Biggus Dickus. youtu.be/HrcbCW4y9Dw?...
Biggus Dickus - Monty Python's Life of Brian
YouTube video by Alex
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December 31, 2024 at 9:18 PM
I personally never found this character funny, which was annoying because he was all over TV for a while.
December 31, 2024 at 4:05 PM
There were a number of music-centred movies in the 1980s that effectively were musicals but didn’t have the characters burst into song. This scene from Beat Street is such an obvious musical number. youtu.be/I6RykLmK2Rw?...
Beat Street - Turbo Broom Dance (Kraftwerk)
YouTube video by OldSkoolPlayhouseHI
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December 30, 2024 at 9:23 PM
Their first single “Donna” (Which got to #2 on the UK singles chart!) sounds like The Muppets doing doo-wop, but apparently it was Frank Zappa influenced.
December 29, 2024 at 7:18 PM
Me too. Hope you’re having a lovely Christmas time. :)
December 25, 2024 at 7:23 PM
Also, the artist behind this was a sort of internet celebrity before this song hit #1 in the UK singles charts. Here’s a really interesting summary of that dynamic in this article. popular-number1s.com/2014/02/04/w...
WHITE TOWN – "Your Woman"
[From February 2014] In 1997, talking about music on the Internet means USENET, a Gormenghast of diverging and reconnecting fora whose goblin tribes gleefully rampage through each other’s chosen lairs...
popular-number1s.com
December 24, 2024 at 7:39 PM
If it’s mint and milk chocolate, I can understand. But mint and decent dark chocolate can be quite a class combination in moderation. I refer you to After Eights in the UK. en.wikipedia.org/wiki/After_E...
After Eight - Wikipedia
en.wikipedia.org
December 24, 2024 at 6:45 PM
That’s not as wacky as it sounds. I remember from his autobiography a bit where he references rap during the recording of the album “Oh Mercy”, and adds as an aside that he followed developments in rap, and has even worked with Kurtis Blow on something.
December 23, 2024 at 6:23 PM
I was going to say Mark E Smith of The Fall, but that might actually make the group a bit more fun, so I’ll instead suggest Lou Reed.
December 23, 2024 at 6:16 PM
As someone who is Scottish, and has seen every possible Scottish Bagpipe engage with every possible music genre: it has probably already happened before I was born (in 1971)!
December 20, 2024 at 11:56 PM
Hope I’m not being too pedantic here, but The Muppet Show was actually made in the UK for the ITV channel via the regional ITV broadcaster ATV, and then sold to US TV. So it actually reflects a lot of UK sensibilities from the time.

I’d say Sesame Street is more representative of the US.
December 19, 2024 at 6:10 PM
:) But not by that much!
December 17, 2024 at 8:43 PM
Well, if you want to do it the Tailwind way with all its problems, only with even more HTML bloat!

I started web dev at a time when you had to use <font>, <table> tags and image maps to style pages, and I was thankful when CSS came along, allowing you to centralise styling of web pages.
December 17, 2024 at 8:31 PM
I have to be honest, I’ve never seen the point of Tailwind. If the styling is so atomised that you have to use loads of class names that each effectively equate to a single directive of CSS, why not just do the styling in CSS, and save on HTML bloat?
December 17, 2024 at 7:48 PM