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Fleetwood Mac. You make loving fun. From the famous 1977 album Rumours . Cycling up a frozen hill between Brakel and Ronse in the middle of ...

One week ago, Hicham El Gaabouri , fleeing from a robbery scene in the Brussels commune of Ukkel with his companion Hassan , tried to carja...

One of these days a husband will carry his wife to her grave, and three children their mother. From the Belgian daily Het Laatste Nieuws : L...

Rags to Rags from Eels ' debut album Beautiful Freak (1996) was apparently never deemed good enough to qualify for hit, but to me it sou...

A major political event in Europe today, March 4, 2010, were the municipal elections held in The Netherlands. When skimming Anglosaxon websi...

First, the fun part. UKIP MEP Nigel Farage blasts EU President Herman Van Rompuy . Let me make it clear that, even though I share Mr. Van Ro...

Possibly one of the dumbest questions ever brought up by a rock journalist was, when sometime in the nineties a Japanese reporter asked XTC ...

That didn't take long. As anyone who follows the international news even remotely knows, the Dutch Cabinet, a coalition of Christian Dem...

Via Theo Spark : They are backtracking now , but only because there has been stiff opposition from saner minds. The real travesty is of cour...

I am NOT thinking of my retirement, hell no. I hope I will still be working when I'm 70. However, when the day comes I will finally have...

We are actually past the birthday party, since DowneastBlog's very first post came up on February 11, 2003 , but hey, February ain't...

Throughout their career, which lasts to this day, The Cult has very much remained, well, a cult group. A UK postpunk and gothic rock band, ...

Just one article among a bazillion ones. From Belgian daily Het Laatste Nieuws , February 16, 2010: Translation: "AGRESSIVE FATHER NO L...

In all likelihood there's gonna be elections this fall in Holland, and it's clear that The Netherlands' extremely well integrate...

First there was Climategate . Then there was the hoax of the Himalayan glaciers, predicted by the IPCC to be molten away to one fifth of the...

1968. Herb Alpert with This Guy's in love with you , a timeless classic. Alpert had already made a name for himself as frontman of Herb...

Via François Desouche , February 3, 2010: The German town of Rendsburg [in northern Schleswig-Holstein, on the Kiel Canal - MFBB] has author...

Via Galliawatch , a January 29, 2010 exerpt from an utterly sad article by Mireille Popelin , first published at Riposte Laïque : "Ther...

Lucky is from Radiohead's third album OK Computer , released in 1997. Then Massive Attack's Man next Door , which is set to fragmen...

A US Admiral made it to Belgian MSM. Below is a screenshot from Belgian daily HLN ( Het Laatste Nieuws ), 2 February 2010. Naturally, US adm...