Tag: watchmen
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Why Do Black People Riot?
OK I’ll admit the slightly clickbaity headline, but it’s a question that has popped up in my social media mostly from white people, quite often middle class. It’s not as bluntly put, but expressed via criticisms and tutting over the looting, rioting and protests over the death of George Floyd. The implicit criticism is ‘why…
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RC 311: The Crow Wished Every Thing Was Black / Hallowexit
“As the air to a bird of the sea to a fish, so is contempt to the contemptible. The crow wish’d every thing was black, the owl, that every thing was white.” William Blake. From the dark satanic mills to Hallowexit B-Day, 25 years of Dog Man Star and the original nutters. Autumn leaves and…
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Nostalgia Profiteering
So much debate about the new Ghostbusters trailer – to me it looks disappointing but apparently it’s sexist and misognyistic to say that or something? I have no problem with the sex of the cast, in fact I WANTED it to succeed but also dread the fact that if it fails it will probably doom…
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Disco Bollywood Part 2
If you’ve listened to the shows, you’d probably know I have a thing for disco, and also Indian/Bollywood music, especially Usha Uthup and ABBA Hindi I posted exactly (spook!) 5 years ago, and strange covers in general. Well I discovered this video and ended up delving (again) into the brightly coloured world of silver costumes…
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On terrorism
There have been some frankly awful analyses of the attacks in Paris a week ago, and the fallout from them. Either from surprisingly from my side, the left and anarchists seemingly serving our masters by wanting to take freedom of speech away like desperate young Tankies also doing a very good impression of hand-wringing liberals,…
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Watchpeanuts
Love this Peanuts / Watchmen hybrid (hate to use the M word here, but it’s close to a mashup) by Evan Shaner – it’s not new but it’s a classic! (via Ian Lloyd)