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* is tripe

Here’s a Spotify playlist to celebrate our first hung parliament for 36 years. Click the picture to open and play.

(PS: Hope it helps you make up your mind, Nick.)

Hung Parliament: the playlist

1. The Dead Weather – Hang You From The Heavens
2. Non Phixion – Refuse To Lose
3. Lesley Gore – It’s My Party
4. Pixies – Hang Wire
5. Enter Shikari – Sorry You’re Not A Winner
6. Tricky – Coalition
7. Gonzales – Political Platform Shoes
8. Beck – Loser
9. Biffy Clyro – When The Faction’s Fractioned
10. The Smiths – Panic
11. The Boo Radleys – I Hang Suspended
12. Skunk Anansie – Yes It’s Fucking Political
13. Fu Manchu – Hung Out To Dry
14. Kiss – Nothin’ To Lose
15. Everything But The Girl – Politics Aside
16. J.J. Cale – Guess I Lose
17. The Buzzcocks – Why Compromise
18. David Bowie – Hang On To Yourself

You need the otters holding hands clip again.

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There.

All better now.

Nick and the party leader of his choice (to be confirmed)

After careful deliberation, Edith decided Queenie's plan was a goer

OK, here’s the deal:

• POSTCULTURIST.COM (er, here) will be the place where animations, random film snippets, playlists, podcasts (um, work in progress) and magpie-style multimedia nuggets get stashed.

• QUEENIEHARRISON.COM will be the place where any serious (ha! oh, that was meant to be serious) bloggage lives.

• [SITE TO BE UNVEILED SHORTLY] will house the music.

That’ll do for starters.

Hope you’re all well, cherry blossoms. See you again soon.

Normally I’d chuck a self-deprecating joke in here about my own hopeless inability to crack on with the job, ha ha, ever the hapless goon. But not this time.

I might cross-pollinate my other ventures with this site and Twitter account, or I might not. No, I probably will. Or… Damn it, there goes the insipid flailing again.

No, I’ll keep you posted. That’s final.

As golden era Smash Hits would have it: AVANTI.

Audiences reacted warmly to Queenie's news

As a result, this 80s ad has been all over my brain.

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Grateful to Dan Maier for his medical advice too:

“TIP: If you suspect someone has overdosed on meow meow, you may counteract the effects by swiftly administering woof woof.”

Meow Meow

And the award for Most Predictable And Yet Still Rather Heartwarming News Story Of The Week goes to: Amanda Palmer and Neil Gaiman’s engagement announcement.

According to the bandwidth fairies, the picture below is the MOST requested one on this site. Have it again, go on. Treat yourselves.

Have a happy life together, Amanda & Neil!

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And, as a special bonus, an audio-only clip of  one of his very early songs, ‘The Gospel According to Tony Day’. Been humming this a lot over the last few days. All the fault of this week’s Patricia Hewitt/Geoff Hoon anti-Brown publicity. It mentions “Pat Hewitt”, see.

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Happy birthday David, you magnificent creature.

David Bowie in 1969

London’s fireworks were pretty spectacular this year. Enjoy!

New Year fireworks at the London Eye

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