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Omargeddon: Project Closure Report
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— 9 Jul 2025 Bec Comment

My attitude to creative writing projects is best contextualised by misquoting Zapp Brannigan’s take on pick-up lines: write as many of them as you can, as fast as you can. I know this is probably unwise, yet I feel compelled to start a project goin[…]

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Omargeddon #55: Is It The Clouds?
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— 6 Jul 2025 Bec Comment

Omar Rodríguez-López’s most recent solo album Is It the Clouds? dropped January 2024 (aptly on the Clouds Hill label) and was the first to follow 2016-17’s epic release schedule. While it’s not quite a traditional concept album, themes of gri[…]

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CRAZY FROG – “Axel F”
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— 25 April 2025 Tom 23 comments

In 2004 I took on the worst project of my professional life; worst in the sense that it was miserable and time-consuming and also in the sense that I did it very badly. A certain mobile phone company wanted to know what their rivals were doing online[…]

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