Watching the first part of AlJazerra’s documentary on pro-Zionist Evangelical Christianity in the USA (‘Praying for Armageddon‘) on youtube makes for some truly chilling viewing.
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Sunday, bloody Sunday
So. Things are going well in general. Significant advances have been made towards studio set up. Two instruments are now fully wired into the mixing module, and I’m familiarising myself with all the possibilities.
(I will be returning to Solovyov’s Sophiology next time, via Bulgakov) Of all the incidentally cogent things that cinematic madmen say, one always sticks with me, but it is in fact a quotation. In the movie Silence of the Lambs, Hannibal Lecter refers to a quote by Marcus Aurelius when he says to Clarice Starling, […]
The following post is a development of a series of short notes made on social media.
Suicide rates among young males is a genuine social concern. The left should not back away from this simply because the right wing with its Traditionalist, anti-feminist and Men’s Rights groups have gained online hegemony over the issue. Not every conversation that begins with the chilling factual statistics over male suicide in the young has […]
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Full of Sound and Fury
I once heard a tale told by a man with a deep lisp, on a train, travelling between towns. I have no idea how true it was. I’m not going to pretty it up or give it a proper or interesting narrative form, with scenery and drama, because it’s not my story to tell. All […]
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Ink and Intuition: the Tattoo Tarot
Another Tarot deck review is up. This time it is the turn of the Tattoo Tarot, illustrated by Megamunden, to come under my gaze. Not having body art myself (despite several scars which would be well to conceal), but being fascinated by it, I like this deck a lot. Although I find much visual appeal […]
So far I have shot and upped three tarot deck reviews and am just now getting to grips with the concept of cross-posting, which is to say posting cross-platforms with a single upload. I’m not sure if wordpress integrates this ability or if there is a plugin available for it yet but I will be […]
The grotesque is a wonderfully ambiguous term, or it used to be. Not straightforwardly unseemly, it referred to a kind of secret interiority, the grotto-esque, the wild yet still encultured cave wall decoration of ancient civilisations that the renaissance humanists and early modern proto-romantics were so in awe of. It came to designate a kind […]
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Malthus with Drones
The Tories’ plan for austerity was always severely skewed towards adversely affecting the poorer and more vulnerable parts of society. It involved a dereliction of social and ethical duty right from the onset; the creation of a hostile environment for anyone who might require help — refugees; victimised black and minority ethnic people; unfairly treated […]
Theriomorphous 