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Betty Paginated #36 Preview: R.I.P. My Beer Bottle/Can Collection
IN EARLY January, Helen and I discussed the fact that we lacked Lebensraum in our house due to our growing family and, more importantly, our growing amount of STUFF. While the idea of building an...
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MARCH ZINES ROUND-UP
HARD-COPY zines - yes, they still exist. Obviously.I don't receive as many as I used to, but here are a couple that landed in my mailbox in recent months.SPRAK! Vol. 2 No. 12 (Kami McInnes, PO Box...
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MOVIE REVIEW: Colossal (2016, USA)
I’M NOT certain what sorta audience Colossalis aiming for. I think audiences COULD get behind a quirky mash-up of Godzilla-style monster flicks and small-town romantic comedies, but what will they make...
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MOVIE REVIEW: Raw (2016, France)
I WAS reminded me of a 1982 short story by Stephen King called Survivor Type while watching director Julia Ducournau’s shocking 2016 movie Raw. In the story, a crooked surgeon is marooned on an...
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So.....after umpteen years, this is the last entry in my blog. But never fear, BETTY PAGINATED lives on in my NEW blog, which can be found HERE.Please come check it out - it's SAFE FOR WORK, too. ;)
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MOVIE MONDAY REVIEW #2: Magical Mystery Tour (1967)
I'VE heard much about this TV special that the Beatles put together themselves soon after manager Brian Epstein's death. I'd read that it wasn't very good, self-indulgent and lacking Epstein's critical...
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I'm baaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaack!
AFTER three years......the new issue of BP is out now. Email me (or comment below) if you're interested in buying a copy. It's 24 A4 pages of adults only ziney goodness. :)
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ZINE/COMIX REVIEW: Stratu’s Diary Comix
Stratu’s Diary Comix #1, #2: I’ve known Stratu for nearly 20 years, but I didn’t KNOW him till I read the first two issues of this fascinating comic/zine. Through words and pictures, Stratu gives...
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Four-book review #1
LAST Christmas, me and the family made our semi-annual pilgrimage to the dry, dusty mid-north of South Australia to visit Peterborough – a once-majestic railway town, now slowly dying in this...
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Farewell to a briefcase
THE briefcase is battered and beaten. It has been smashed over large men's heads at wrestling events, splashed with beer and spirits during drunken benders in seedy pubs, and been carted over much of...
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Book reviews: Four-play revisited
THE last time we went to Peterborough was this past April to visit my dad in a nursing home in a nearby town and visit my mum as she prepared to leave the house they’d lived in for 25 years and move...
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The greatest issue of the greatest porn magazine ever!
BACK when I was a teenager - in the mid-80s - Knave was the bee's knees when it came to grumble mags. The English publication had hot pictorials, a sharp sense of humour, literate reviews of...
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