Category Archives: Site News

Announcing The Voice Of Cheese!

Now then: about that poll. At this time of writing, out of 257 voters, 39% (a nominal 99 votes) declared they not only play music, but have recorded some of it as well. The plan, as obvious as it must … Continue reading

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Kill Ugly Radio World Tour: Let’s Roll!

Right, well I’ve pretty much finished doing the cover of Our Latest Pet Project. Just to give you an idea of the mess this has been causing on my desktop, here are some pictures: The Plastified Cover…: More on Flickr. … Continue reading

Posted in Frank Zappa, Site News, Visual Arts | 6 Comments

Rock The Vote!

Could I ask everyone who’s been voting in the discography section to, um, cast their vote again? See, I figured a choice from one to five stars was not enough so I went and changed it to 10 and in … Continue reading

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Discography Reloaded

Hurrah! The discography pages are now running on WordPress as is just about everything else on this site! I bet you’re just as excited as i am! What it means: No more getting rid of oodles of comment spam in … Continue reading

Posted in Geek, Site News | 4 Comments

Upgrading WordPress

Things will probably look a little wonky around here whilst I upgrade to the latest version of WordPress. There is no reason to panic — yet… Update: well that went smoothly! Things seem to be running nicely. Let me know … Continue reading

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A Note On “Fake” Comments

In response to this comment from someone pretending to be Joe Travers, the real Joe Travers writes: Only a true asshole zappa fan would go up on a site like this & say that it was me. Do you guys … Continue reading

Posted in Personal, Site News | 22 Comments

She’s Five Years Old

Forgot all about this here blog’s 5th anniversary which was last July 12. No sparkling collage from Dr Sharl this time, I’m afraid. Beer anyone? :)

Posted in Personal, Site News | 8 Comments

We’re Back :)

It’s fun, you know, updating website software. I spent the entire afternoon upgrading the forums in order to prevent mass sign-ups from (mostly) moronic Russians trying to make a buck ruble by mass-posting links to pictures of Asian men with … Continue reading

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A Zappa-centric blog in The New York Times

On the Zappa-centric blog Kill Ugly Radio, one fan wrote of the May 19 show in Stockholm: “This was my first chance to experience the music of FZ live in concert. And what a concert. Sitting there on the fourth … Continue reading

Posted in Site News, Zappa Plays Zappa | 20 Comments

Weirdo Swag!

In the “Blatant Self Promotion” Department, have we got news for you! If you liked the weirdo ecards Dr Sharl and I provide over at weirdocards.com, you’ll be glad to know that some of those designs are now available on … Continue reading

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Forums Back(ed) Up!

Phew. I managed to restore the forum to a back-up from May 19 (CET). At first glance, all previously deleted threads are back. Depending on the exact time at which the actual back-up took place, any posts made after it … Continue reading

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Shit Happens, The Forum Edition

Last Friday night, one motherf@#!ing idiot thought it would be a good idea to spam the KUR forums. This asshat took the time to register and went on to post over 170 messages promoting some rancid pornsite. By the time … Continue reading

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What The Hack?

Balint’s zappa.hu is back online. Congratulations on a fast recovery, Marosi! Too bad about some of the stuff being wiped out forever though…

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Boinged

Ya know, in the past we’ve been metafiltered, linkfiltered, growabrained, powazeked, and now this: it ain’t Rolling Stone, but Burnt managed to have Boing Boing post my FZ vs PMRC Flickr set on their frontpage this morning. What’s next? Slashdot? … Continue reading

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KUR: Your Top 100 Belgian Weblog

Hey whaddayaknow: according to Alexa, KUR caps the 74th spot in the Top 100 of Belgian weblogs! You know what that means, right? It means there’s about a 100 weblogs in this country. :) Looking at Alexa’s info page for … Continue reading

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