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27th March, 2019
I-Land

The Dirt: Mötley Crüe’s Memoir Adaptation Hits The Screens

Having read The Dirt, I would agree with Rolling Stone’s assessment that the film adaptation doesn’t do the book justice. The book was an outstanding […]

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28th August, 2018
Tornado Country

BlacKkKlansman – Derivative And Reflexive

A dollop of preaching. The film won’t let go of the racial line, not even after having set up characters whose MO is post-racial […]

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19th August, 2018
I-Land

Roused By Fear Of A Blank Planet

This album was responsible for lifting me from the dumps eleven years ago — rough, depressive, sharp as nails […]

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14th August, 2018
Tornado Country

When An Actor Is ‘Not Gay’ And An Actress Is ‘Not Gay Enough’

British comedian Jack Whitehall is going to play Disney’s first gay character, and instead of fans hailing the occasion as a breakthrough moment in cinema, […]

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6th August, 2018
Tornado Country

The New Censorship: Not An Option

Where does it stop? How many authors and artists and other figureheads must fall before the madness subsides? […]

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5th August, 2018
Tornado Country

The New Censorship: Defacement

Most of history doesn’t fit in with the present. That much we can agree on. But we can’t rewrite everything to suit the […]

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4th August, 2018
I-Land

Claiming One’s Destiny

‘That the Indians were you!’ […]

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31st July, 2018
I-Land

On Writing And Cutting: Don’t Get Too Comfortable

The text reads well. Still, I cut it. Thick black strikethrough lines from end to end — then started a new draft on the […]

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23rd July, 2018
EON’s Shard
Tornado Country

Rabid Omnivores

Here’s a fact: We are ruled by monkeys. That either makes us monkeys, or it makes us creatures over whom monkeys rule […]

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16th July, 2018
Tornado Country

Croatian National Football And Genocidal Regimes

Always good to see the French beating crypto-Nazis. Vive la Resistance! For those of you wondering what the hell I’m doing mixing politics and sports […]

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