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17:13 / 26.12.02

Lavender is the NEW Black
Lyra Silvertongue is the NEW Frodo Baggins
François Ozon is the NEW Gus van Sant
Iraq is the NEW Vietnam
Vietnam is the NEW Thailand
Brian Aldridge is the NEW Nick Cotton
Modernising the NHS is the NEW Millennium Dome
The late Queen Mother is the NEW John Innes No. 4
Skyclad Pagan ritual is the NEW Born-Again Christianity
BDSM is the NEW DIY

Old brown-eye is back

20:24 / 26.12.02

My arse is increasingly difficult to find with both hands.

03:24 / 27.12.02

Queens of the Stone Age is the NEW Traveling Willberries

05:52 / 27.12.02

Yes, yes, but is McCracken the new Kirby?

11:46 / 27.12.02

Do you mean Phil McCracken? Ben Dover and Phil McCracken?

12:07 / 27.12.02

MUSIC
The duduk is the NEW dijiridu, which was itself the NEW sitar.
Old-time black gospel is the NEW bluegrass
(i.e., the Blind Boys of Alabama CD is the NEW O Brother Where Art Thou soundtrack).
Scandinavian is the NEW Celtic.
Klezmer is the NEW Latin, which was itself the NEW Afropop.
Orchestras are the NEW synthesizers.

WORLD POLITICS AND CULTURE
Sephardic Diaspora is the NEW Potato Famine: 1492 is the NEW 1847.
Islamism is the NEW Communism.
The Taliban are the NEW Khmer Rouge.
Pakistan is the NEW Yugoslavia (but Benazir Bhutto is the NEW Winnie Mandela).
Iran is the NEW Poland.
Armenian genocide is the NEW Holocaust.
Anti-Americanism is the NEW anti-Semitism.

ON THE HOMEFRONT
Conversion to Islam is the NEW gay (as a means of horrifying one's parents)
Gay adoption is the NEW gay marriage.
Third-world babies are the NEW puppies.
Slovenliness is the NEW primping (body odor is the NEW cologne).
Buzzcut is the NEW shaved head.
Birkenstocks are the NEW combat boots.
Mashed potato is the NEW risotto.
Obvious is the NEW ironic.

Dull is the NEW interesting.

I hope.

12:15 / 27.12.02

Anti-Americanism is the NEW anti-Semitism

You wish.

18:50 / 27.12.02

South of the River is the NEW North of the River

shortfatdyke is the NEW Daphne du Maurier

20:33 / 27.12.02

And yea shall North of the River claim it back. Therefore is London the new Korea?

wembley can change in 28 days

00:19 / 28.12.02

My god, I'm so unhip it hurts.

Brecht is the NEW Tom Stoppard.
Squatted housing is the NEW vegetarianism.
DIY ringtones are the NEW tattoos.
Snow is the NEW sand.
Berlin is the NEW Paris circa 1900.
Blogging is the NEW e-mail (you assume people check up on your moods and activities rather than contact them directly).
Cocaine is the NEW Red Bull and Vodka.

STOATIE LIEKS CHOCOLATE MILK

00:45 / 28.12.02

Management consultancy is the new whistling from building sites.
Seven is the new cheese.
TV's Carol Smillie is the new Osama bin Laden.
Quadratic equations are the new death metal.
Old is the new new.
New is the new old.
The Empire is the new Old Republic.

00:46 / 28.12.02

Tony Benn is the NEW Queen Mother
Nigella Lawson is the NEW Barbara Woodhouse
Online confession is the NEW exorcism
Jack Nicolson is the NEW Jack Lemon

03:30 / 30.12.02

Oh yeah, Montreal is the NEW Tijuana.