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Bowie’s top 100 books the complete list “Lend us a book we can read up alone” It’s likely that most people reading this will have already seen either the original story on openbookstoronto.com last week, or a version of it referring back to that original list of “DAVID BOWIE'S TOP 100 BOOKS”. There have also been numerous suggestions of a Bowie Book Club to tackle each of the 100 volumes. However, there was a problem with that particular openbookstoronto.com feature in that  only 75% of the books were actually listed ! For anybody planning on completing this epic voyage of discovery, we’ve listed every single one of the 100 books here (in no particular order) for your reference. You may have also noticed the two chaps in the middle of our montage. Well, it’s none other than David Bowie sporting a Clockwork Orange T-shirt (the book by Anthony Burgess is in the list) with his old chum, George Underwood. George kindly supplied the previously unpublished photogra...

Feeding a Seagull Chris Harrigan has posted this extraordinary story on Facebook, you have to read this all the way through, the pay off is superb Guys this is the true crime story of the decade: Yesterday a friend told me what might well be the best story I’ve ever heard. She had caught the train in from Frankston. And while she was waiting for the train to come, she noticed a man sitting down on the platform with a bag of fish and chips. But he wasn’t really eating them. He was just sort of letting them air. This attracted a few seagulls, who began to circle the platform. Instead of shooing the birds away, the man offered them a few chips. He’d toss one a foot or so away from him. It was like he was beckoning them to come closer. He kept doing this, eking the chips out slowly, until there was a big group of seagulls in front of him, 15 or 20. A tiny army. He’d throw them a chip every now and then – just enough to keep the birds interested, but not enough to sate them. ...

According to folklore, if it is cloudy when a  groundhog  emerges from its burrow on this  day , then spring will come early; if it is sunny, the  groundhog  will supposedly see its shadow and retreat back into its burrow, and the winter weather will persist for six more weeks.

"We Can't Have Comedy and Be Politically Correct at the Same Time" - John Cleese John Cleese says political correctness has gone too far, especially on America's college campuses, where he will no longer go to perform. The very essence of his trade — comedy — is criticism and that not infrequently means hurt feelings. But protecting everyone from negative emotion all the time is not only impractical (one can't control the feelings of another), but also improper in a free society. Cleese, having worked with psychiatrist Robin Skynner, says there may even be something more sinister behind the insistence to be always be politically correct. TRANSCRIPT John Cleese:  I'm offended every day. For example, the British newspapers every day offend me with their laziness, their nastiness, and their inaccuracy, but I'm not going to expect someone to stop that happening; I just simply speak out about it. Sometimes when people are offended they want...

WONDERFUL LIFE : The "Lost" Interview With Colin Vearncombe RIP WWW Last week, we heard the sad news of Liverpool-born singer-songwriter  Colin Vearncombe ’s death in a car accident at the age of just 53. Back in 2013, Vearncombe,  aka  Black, whose prolific career spanned four decades and is best known for his timeless classic song  Wonderful Life , talked to SuperDeluxeEdition  editor Paul Sinclair. We publish that interview here for the first time in tribute to a distinctively talented musician… WONDERFUL LIFE :  The "Lost" Interview With Colin Vearncombe RIP February 1, 2016   by Paul Sinclair Last week, we heard the sad news of Liverpool-born singer-songwriter  Colin Vearncombe ’s death in a car accident at the age of just 53. Back in 2013, Vearncombe,  aka  Black, whose prolific career spanned four decades and is best known for his timeless classic song  Wonderful Life , talked to S...