Category Archives: Art/Culture
Americans frighten me sometimes
By way of the always interesting Ben Hammersley comes an intriguing account of US mall culture from Chris Heathcote’s antimega blog. Whenever I read stuff like that, I feel a certain relief that our supposedly limitless adoption of all (bad) … Continue reading
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Enforced recreation(al grief)
An article on the BBC site confirms something I’ve been saying for a few years now. The mass outpourings of public grief in response to Princess Diana, Jill Dando, the Queen Mother or even the Soham murders are examples of … Continue reading
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Miscellaneous musings round about midnight
Miscellaneously… Mozilla have had to rename their Firebird (previously Phoenix) browser again. It’s now called Firefox and version 0.8 will probably be every bit as good as the previous versions… I’ll let you know next time I’m on the WinXP … Continue reading
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Subtitling vs Dubbing
A few days ago I mentioned (or rather hinted at) my preference for subtitling foreign-language films, rather than dubbing them. Maybe it’s because my interests lie more with sound than vision, I dunno, but sound is an important aspect of … Continue reading
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Take the train to Swamp Bottom…
Now, as regular readers will know, I’m a pretty easy-going kind of guy. I wouldn’t normally go so far as to tell you to do something. But I will now. Go and see ‘Spirited Away’. That *is* an order. Maybe … Continue reading
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Too good for Tony
In the government’s proposed review of the BBC, the huge BBCi website is sure to be one of the main areas for consideration. The main complaint, it seems, is not that BBCi is too big; it’s actually seen as being … Continue reading
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Where’s Corporal Whitcomb?
Colonel Cathcart sat down at his desk with a determined air and cleared a large neat space in his blotter. When he had finished, he tapped his finger inside it. “Starting tomorrow,” he said, “I want you and Corporal Whitcomb … Continue reading
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Warren Ellis on WAP
I use a wap-compatible mobile phone, a useful tool for the sort of person who runs out of book or newspaper midway through a journey. Or, therefore, for the sort of person who likes to make such journeys on unpredictable … Continue reading
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Happy Bloomsday!
Happy Bloomsday! I first read James Joyce’s Ulysses seven or eight years ago. Since then, I’d always intended (but never managed, either through forgetting or being engrossed in some other book) to read, or rather be in the process of … Continue reading
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Michael Moore witch hunt
Oliver Willis pointed out this
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