Bernard Watson's blog

Chelsea are to face the Los Angeles Galaxy on July 21 in an exhibition game as part of what has been termed "the World Series of Soccer" for reasons that have not been made completely clear. Beckham made headlines regularly in England, often for his off-field behavior as much as his soccer skills, and was seen walking around Manchester in a kimono on one occasion, eliciting mass snickers among the Mancunian fashion hawks. The game is probably going to be Beckham's debut, and Americans are anticipating an elegant performance from the effeminate, soft-spoken, dress-wearing former Manchester United midfielder and England captain.
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The Big Fish from England is back on tour, and the synopsis is frankly weird, as ever. Robyn Hitchcock, replete with admiring stars-in-their-own-right REM rockers Peter Buck and Bill Rieflin, as well as Young Fresh Fellows leader Scott McCaughey (collectively known as The Venus 3) are propelling their strangeness across the USA this spring.

The bizarre artist, whose catalog is crammed with references to metamorphic animals and humans, sexual transmigration and conquest, wrapped in an effervescent pop-psychedelic miasma of rotting hypnoskein, is to tour the west coast through April, and his cultish followers are high with expectation.
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