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Category Archives: Starburst Memories

Starburst Memories: Excalibur Poster Magazine

13/11/2013by Dirk

Call off the search, for the Holy Grail has been found, on ebay. The first Starburst Memories feature was about my false memory of a Starburst magazine feature on EXCALIBUR. […]

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Starburst Memories: Disney to make Myhr Rho spin-off

29/09/2013by Dirk 6 Comments

Since Disney purchased the rights to Star Wars and announced that it will be developing more films, there have been daily press releases about how the franchise will develop and […]

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Starburst Memories: Woody flow-chart

16/09/2013by Dirk 4 Comments

Due to a number of reasons, ‘Dirking about’ time has been hard to find over the past couple of weeks. There are number of posts in the pipeline, when I […]

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Starburst Memories: A Guest Post by His Holiness Pope John Paul II

26/08/2013by Andy 8 Comments

In 1995 to mark the 100th anniversary of the birth of cinema, the Vatican published a list of 45 (for some reason) “great” films, simply titled “Some Important Films”. And […]

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Woodython Five (7): Show Business

21/08/2013by Dirk 13 Comments

“Show business is dog eat dog. Its more than dog eats dog. It’s dog doesn’t return the other dog’s phone calls.”  Crimes and Misdemeanors “Write about what you know,” is […]

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Starburst Memories: Don’t Look Now, it’s Mark Kermode!

13/08/2013by Dirk 8 Comments

I edited PROP magazine with Steven Blyth for ten issues from 1996 to 2003. It started life as a component of his Poetry MA with Manchester University, but we developed […]

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Starburst Memories (redux): Interview with a Geek: Chris Hart

02/08/2013by Dirk Leave a comment

Originally posted on 2 Warps to Neptune:
Chris as a young lad, mentally preparing for the annual British Open Dungeon Crawl Championships. Chris today, rendered impressionistic by so many years of…

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Starburst Memories: Brosnan Strikes Back!

17/07/2013by Dirk 1 Comment

Starburst Number 22 declares “The Return of Chewbacca!” alongside a full colour cover featuring him breathing into a hoover appliance. Of course, he was the character, more than any other, […]

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STARBURST MEMORIES – Woody Allen on Woody Allen

08/06/2013by Dirk 4 Comments

At the beginning of this year’s Woodython, I promised to provide a review of some of the Woody literature available in the Dirk archive. Woody Allen on Woody Allen is […]

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Starburst Memories: Tired of reality?

19/05/2013by Dirk 10 Comments

You might consider that you wasted your youth. Perhaps you spent it shooting pool in some smoky hall, locked in your bedroom playing the guitar or just partying hard when […]

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