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science fiction, fantasy and other (counter)culture, occasional gorkys zygotic mynci and frankfurt school references... as featured in 'banana wings', 'focus' (bfsa magazine) &, umm, currently working outwards from there; on bluesky (@ketelby.bsky.social), contactable by email at davidketelby@proton.me, accept no imitations (pronouns: he/him)

Showing posts with label politics. Show all posts
Showing posts with label politics. Show all posts
Wednesday, 1 August 2018

russian history lesson

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Alexander Kerensky maintained a “no enemies to the left” strategy, and it didn’t work out very well for him in the end. Okay, let’s ...
Sunday, 1 July 2018

twenty-seven words following the river of death downstream - and some other films i've watched recently

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Cosh Boy; also known as The Slasher in USA (1953, dir.   Lewis Gilbert, starring James Kenney, Joan Collins; feat. Hermione Gingold as Qu...
Sunday, 18 March 2018

to russia with love

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Social media is a strange place, these days - as unreal as Narnia, but with greater leverage over our real world than that magical land ...
Wednesday, 1 November 2017

twenty-seven word reviews of films seen during august, september and october

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The Raven  (1935, dir. Louis Friedlander, aka Lew Landers, starring Bela Lugosi, Boris Karloff) - If your consultant’s other specialisms in...

twenty-seven word reviews of books read during august, september and october

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Nnedi Okrafor’s  Binti.  Some great aliens in YA novella about Himba  girl (Namibia) leaving home (in various senses) for offworld uni. A f...
Saturday, 1 April 2017

twenty-seven word reviews of films watched during March 2017

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House of Mirth  (2000; dir. Terence Davies; starring Gillian Anderson)  - original novel’s probably good; film felt like a somewhat rou...
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