Young Knives
I’m still listening to Barbarians, the new Young Knives album. It’s been over a month now and I’m still so impressed. The title track and Sheep Tick tie as fabourites for me.
Read MoreNovember, 2020
xbox x or ps5?
I’m hoping this isn’t the modern incarnation of VHS or Betamax. I’m favouring Xbox X but notoriously wrong in things like this.
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incredibly soothing about bagging comic books. It’s Wednesday and this evening’s been devoted to picking up my pulls from my LCS and then re-bagging the Marvel run of Micronauts I’m just about to complete.
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I like the idea of microblogging – essentially tweeting away from Twitter – but increasingly dislike and distrust social media. I much preferred the early, old days of blogging. So, after a little thought, I believe I’ve got a neat way of microblogging her to my web site.
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The Hatred of Video Games is Simply Suspicion of Youth
Rather neat, germane piece by Ian Dunt about the way in which video games are stigmatised: Why should video games be seen as particularly addictive, compared to watching football, say, or soap operas? Both of these activities lead to people obsessively looking at a screen, day in and day out….
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The Subjective Turn
Fascinating article on Hegel, historicism and human nature by Jon Stewart in Aeon magazine. Today, we dedicate much of our lives to developing and asserting some sense of personal self-identity that is identifiable and separable from that of others. People have become increasingly creative in the ways in which this…
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Standardisation? The National Curriculum and Assessment
Notes from English and Its Teachers by Simon Gibbons (2017) In this chapter Gibbons presents the changes to English during the period of the 20 years-long Conservative government. His starting point is the 1988 Kingman Report and the introduction of the National Curriculum, the first attempt at prescribing the context…
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X of Swords: Prelude to #10
It’s taken me a long time to get into X of Swords, the current X-Men crossover event. While I’m intrigued by Jonathan Hickman’s take on Marvel’s mutants set up in House of X/Powers of X, I can’t say I’m enjoying it. I dig some of the SF aspects of the…
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Wolfgang Voight/GAS, Königsforst
A few days ago I happened to stumble across a list of Eight Great Minimal Electronic Records You Need to Hear. Minimal techno – if it’s what you could call the music on the list – is something I haven’t listened to a great deal so I thought I’d have…
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