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#EventsDearBoy – THE BIG LIST
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— 12 Jul 2026 Tom 2 comments

As you might know if you’ve been on Bluesky, I’m counting down EVERY COMICS EVENT* *(that I’ve read) from worst to best and writing a little paragraph on each. I might Do Something with all this when it’s finished but for now […]

About Freaky Trigger

Freaky Trigger is a website dedicated to smart, informal writing about pop culture – music, film, TV, food and drink, books, art, science and anything else we fancy writing about. We’re not particularly cutting edge, but we’re generous, affable and curious.

We started Freaky Trigger in 1999 – it was purely a music site for the first few years, gradually expanding its remit. Until 2005 it included the much-loved music blog NYLPM, whose contents form part of the site’s extensive archives.

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Minds Immeasurably Superior To Ours: ANT WARS
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— 21 Jan 2026 Tom 9 comments

This is a post in Discourse 2000, the year-by-year, story-by-story look at 2000AD. Contains spoilers for Ant Wars.

WHICH THRILL?: The folly of human science unleashes a horde of giant ants – can a Brazilian army Captain and an indigenous Ama[…]

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JAMES BLUNT – “You’re Beautiful”
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Popular: #1014, 23rd July 2005
— 18 January 2026 Tom 25 comments

“Proof that one song is all it takes” as James Blunt’s Twitter biography put it. He knows what he’s known for, and in his post-superstar era he’s played his hand with great skill, cultivating a self-deprecating persona on social media as an[…]

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  1. connections game on Minds Immeasurably Superior To Ours: ANT WARS10 Aug 2026

    An excellent analysis of Ant Wars. The contrast between its wonderfully over-the-top B-movie action and its deeply uncomfortable treatment of…

  2. veol on I am the 0.00000001 percent9 Aug 2026

    The bit about Linklater’s sly references and those expensive seven-inches really captures that early-2000s indie collector mindset without overexplaining it.…

  3. veol on Dance Our Way Out Of Our Constrictions: INTRO ’789 Aug 2026

    The bit about expensive seven-inches really pins down that early-2000s indie collector mindset, where scarcity almost became part of the…

  4. veol on Freaky Trigger and the Lollards of Pop – Series 2, Week 39 Aug 2026

    The mix of pop discussion with odd intrusions like the Spider-Man box office line and SEO-in-Delhi phrasing makes the excerpt…

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Tom — 16 Jan 2026

This is a part of Discourse 2000, a year-by-year, story-by-story look at 2000AD. Contains spoilers for Death Planet.

WHICH THRILL?: A colony ship crashes on an extremely hostile planet. Can Captain Lorna Varn keep the survivors safe?

ANOTHER GI[…]

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This is part of Discourse 2000, a year-by-year, story-by-story blog about 2000AD. Contains spoilers for Judge Dredd – The Cursed Earth.

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Pete Baran — 26 Dec 2025

Tuesday, 30th December 2025 is the 25th (sort of) Annual Between Christmas And New Year Pub Crawl and we have decided to make a rare foray out of Zone 1 to HACKNEY. Twenty Five years too late to actively gentrify it, perhaps we undo some of that dama[…]

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How to do a cover version

Tom — 10 Aug 2004

Distilled from several years of pop experience, here from the WORST to the BEST are ways to approach a cover version.
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This is not my best-loved time of year: it’s cold, dark and tainted by too many unhappy holiday memories. All the decorations remind me of when I was very young, and how I dreaded the annual construction of our plastic fir tree, anticipating my dad[…]

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I Want To Know What Love Is – Eighties Revisionism

Tom — 2 Jan 2001

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EVERY WORD IS TRUE – “Don’t Cry For Me, Argentina”

Tom — 1 Oct 2002

IntroductionIt was about 2 in the morning and I was trying to get a handle on Alexander the Great. I had a final exam coming up and I’d missed half the syllabus – and something else was missing; a way into the man’s head. Alexander […]

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Bec — 9 Mar 2024

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Lists, lists, lists. Its what we do around here, and the end of a decade gives us ample opportunity to look back with fondness over a decade. Music, films, television were all thrown in the mix, and may pop up. But most important to us is the social.[…]

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Bec — 17 Jul 2023

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The Pornography Of Nostalgia

Pete Baran — 15 Aug 2006

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Tom — 23 Apr 2000

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Tom — 12 Nov 2014

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