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Here are some Album-a-Day projects which have been completed: (The count so far is: 388 registered albums-a-day!) Spastic Moose - Then Come The Chunks (not yet digitized) - This one was recorded right before my bandmate Sophia and I split for college in 1997. We didnt know it was an album-a-day at the time, but it counts! Tom 7 vs. Ultimate Warrior - Barmy Badger Backpackers (30 songs, 23:42) - This one was made by me and my roommate Don, and was the first conscious Album-a-Day effort. Mostly ...

  The author supports Isabelo, chef Margot Janse’s charity which feeds school children every day. Please support them . Charles Dickens would have been a bleeding heart liberal if he’d lived in our times. Rarely has a writer possessed as much empathy with the common man, the underdog, the have-nots who walk past the big houses on their way back to the slum they call home. Dickens would have been all over Maverick Citizen, a key member of the Treatment Action Campaign, would have sung at ...

What’s in a name? Rather a lot, actually. Particularly, where politics are concerned. When it comes to language, I’m pretty conservative. I think words are used because they mean some things and not others. I think words in public discourse ought to reflect their commonly understood meaning. When you name a piece of legislation, a government department, or a policy program, it ought to be called something that accurately reflects what it does. Unfortunately, too often in politics names are ...

by Alex Bell © Universal/Dna/Working Title/Koba STRUTTING HIS STUFF: Hugh Grant​ dances round Number 10 Downing Street in Love, Actually, a film that is now a Christmas staple. Sign up for our daily newsletter featuring the top stories from The Press and Journal. Thank you for signing up to The Press and Journal newsletter. Something went wrong - please try again later. Sign Up Dickens ruined Christmas for writers. He invented the sentimental form of the holiday, a schmaltz-fest fo...

Global Streaming as part of a generalized movement online The biggest story in television this year was the rise of the streaming services, with Disney+, HBO Max, Apple TV+, and NBCUniversal’s Peacock joining what was already the crowded field of Netflix, Amazon, and Hulu. This followed a monopolistic wave of mergers and consolidations that included: AT&T buying Time Warner with Warner Bros. and HBO; the cable network Comcast buying the NBC network with Universal film studios and becoming pr...

ALEX BELL: Blame Charles Dickens for unleashing a winter ritual of magic versus reality © Universal/Dna/Working Title/Koba Sign up for our daily Politics briefing for political exclusives, analysis and debate. Thank you for signing up to our Politics newsletter. Something went wrong - please try again later. Sign Up Dickens ruined Christmas for writers. He invented the sentimental form of the holiday, a schmalz-fest for the crippled Tiny Tim. On this eve, what to write about but Christm...

A Christmas Story I posted this, my favorite Christmas story, in 2012. It harkens back to a better time, or, at least, a more inspiring one. Some years ago, the sportswriter Rick Reilly wrote: You can take all your Tiny Tims and your Grinches and your Miracles on Whatever Street and stuff them in your stocking. The best Christmas story is about a boxer. It starts the day in 1918 when a doctor tells a slender heavyweight named Billy Miske that his bum kidneys give him five years to live, if he�...