Pre-empted

For regular visitors to this site, the regularly-scheduled Max Headroom post for this week has been pre-empted. It will return next week.

In the meantime, take a look at this excellent post from 18 months ago:   http://friday87central.wordpress.com/2010/12/31/maxheadroom/

Note: where the author refers to the creator of Max Headroom as "George Strong" it should be "George Stone."

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