twenty-seven word reviews

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)

Sunday, 29 December 2019

and soon it will be morning: appreciating ‘cats’ as theodor adorno might’ve

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( This article is around 2,000 words long, so may take you 8 or 10 minutes to read). I saw Cats  the other day with my family. Yeah, I kno...
Thursday, 26 December 2019

happier simpler times

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This is a good time of year for visiting places where the veil separating earth and heaven seems thin, attenuated - and for reflecting back ...
Sunday, 1 December 2019

pray as you go

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So I've diarrised films seen and books read as per usual; I've also been finding the prayer app 'Pray As You Go' (avai...

the socialism of fools

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Let's be frank with ourselves: some of our friends on the Left, present company excepted, are idiots. Anyone who thinks that anti-semiti...

scenes of chemical life: george eliot, nick kent and other writers i've read, re-read, half-read etc

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Lately I've been reading about communism (' fully automated luxury ' variety: well, it's a provocation wrapped in a single p...

if it seems too good to be true: some films i've seen lately

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Aside from The Sun Is Also A Star - which you should see - the best films listed below are the French ones (which S. and I watched in order...
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