The Oliviero Toscani photos of brave Isabelle Caro, the 31 kg Frenchwoman who’s suffered from anorexia for fifteen years, appeared all over the media today. Why? Well they are being used to sell a clothing brand, Flash&Partners’ line Nolita, and “to use that naked body to show everyone the reality of this illness, caused in [...]
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Radio One turns 40 this month, and what a year 1967 must have been: Flower Power, Sgt. Peppers, Vietnam war, Milton Keynes, Hendrix, Chaplin’s last film, the Doors, Concorde … and fab Radio One. The Observer Music Monthly on Sunday showed the nation’s favourites, old and new. Tony Blackburn appears next to Kissy Sell Out. [...]
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I just posted a new podcast show. I put this show together around the two poems I’ve had published at Surprising Stories.com, and Bewildering Stories.com: The Aura Seekers, and The Righteous Wrong. I wrote them back in May. The Aura Seekers is all about self-centered people who think a lot of themselves. The Righteous Wrong [...]
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The BBC has canned Planet Relief day, over fears of appearing biased. That never stopped them protecting Margaret Thatcher when she was put on the spot on live TV about sinking the Belgrano. The real problem for the BBC is that Live Earth was a flop. The BBC wisely realise that preaching to the converted [...]
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Two great ezines I love: Surprising Stories edited by John Thiel, and Bewildering Stories edited by Don Webb. They’ve just published some of my poems. They are: The Aura Seekers (June 07 version) The Aura Seekers (May 07 Version) The Righteous Wrong I am pleased with the May 07 version of the Aura Seekers, but [...]
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