Sunday, 31 March 2024

listen

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Have you been listening to anything good lately..? My current favourite 'spoken word' listens are This Jungian Life (content-rich, ...
Thursday, 28 March 2024

superman: you'll believe...

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  "Unlike the seventies Superman, who suffered from all the angst and self-doubt that has washed over the entire comic-book field since...
Sunday, 24 December 2023

happy holidays

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Does this photograph illustrate the theme: Christmas ..? It contains (1) a red and green colour palette , (2) artificial illumination ...
Thursday, 7 December 2023

two mid-1970s polemics

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I'd like to recommend a couple of polemical essays from the mid-1970s - celebrated in their time, worth reading now - that you may enjo...
Wednesday, 4 October 2023

joker: 'that's entertainment'

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I watched Joker (dir. Todd Phillips) tonight – coincidentally exactly four years to the day after its US and UK theatrical release.   It’s a...
Friday, 14 July 2023

how to escape the earth’s gravity this bastille day

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If I were to press one recent genre short story into your hand and to say, ‘read this’, it’d be ‘ Self Care ’ from Julian Jarboe’s debut col...
Friday, 19 May 2023

london's moving our way

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  A happy discovery that I’ve made recently is that there’s a band - perhaps more of a project - called Warrington-Runcorn New Town Developm...
Monday, 1 May 2023

another brick in the wall

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Saturday, 31 December 2022

so what's the moral of this rejected story?

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If you’re even slightly interested in science fiction or urban fantasy and are thereby tangentially interested in tech (i.e. if you’re read...