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The Four Tops with Bernadette , a marvellous number from 1967. 808 State with first hit Pacific State (1989). They were a house/techno band...

Via Belgian daily Het Laatste Nieuws , August 26, 2010: "Belgium's Ministry of Justice will soon organize training sessions to make...

Once upon a time I used to sit on warm summer nights in pub De drei deurkisj (Three little doors), watching da femalez, smoking a cigarette,...

The Cure with Just like heaven . 1987. Metric with All Yours . 2010. For some reason we seem to have had more than a few Canadians the past ...

A trusted and valued internet acquaintance, a Flemish engineer who goes by the name Traveller, sent me an email containing Ann Coulter's...

My very best!!! Cheers! MFBB.

Not much time. I will probably piss off a lot of Irishmen by starting this series with the following pic but I thought this view of rear wal...

Belgium is, after 13 June, still in search of a new government. Tedious coalition talks have been held ever since, and a scenario I dreaded,...

In the early nineties, The Charlatans , a key group of the so-called Madchester scene, had a smash hit, in my opinion at least, with The On...

Just kidding. On Planet Zeist, perhaps. UNIT 731 was one of around 26 biological warfare and medical experimentation organizations set up b...

Via Galliawatch , July 31, 2010: "... The inauguration of a new mosque has become an everyday event in France, but when the Prime Minis...

Over at The Brussels Journal , the splendidly lucid and eloquent Takuan Seiyo has his next installment in the inimitable From Meccania to At...

A Flemish saying goes "we reizen om te leren" (we travel to learn) and I've always taken that folksy lesson of wisdom to heart...

Hi there. Sorry for the hiatus, but I - we - have been on holiday to Wales and Ireland, more precisely in Snowdonia and Ireland's southw...

There's been a steady drumbeat of appalling news last week, all of it signalling that Europe is steamrollering towards disaster. I'm...

Martha & The Muffins . Echo Beach . 1980. This was their only international single, although they seem to have had a degree of success i...

I spotted this about one week ago on Call of the Patriot. I think it is well worth a read. I am talking about Obama's recess appointment...

As per usual, news of the Belgian operations in AF is scarce, and this situation has in fact not very much improved since the introduction, ...

KILL. IT. MFBB.

Via CathNews India , July 6, 2010: "Suspected Islamic militants have chopped off a Catholic professor’s hand in Kerala for allegedly in...