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How HBO’s Chernobyl successfully mixes dramatisation and science.
Representing a non-fiction period piece set in the Soviet Union with English dialogue seems ridiculous. In fact, it is. The question is whether the narrative and performance is capable of sufficiently wrestling your attention away from the elephant’s ginormous arse. … Continue reading
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Tagged Boris Shcherbyna, bromance, Chernobyl, Emma Watson, English dialogue, HBO, Hiroshima, Jared Harris, KGB, Moscow, Pete Tong, Radiation, self-styled champagne socialist millennial professional types earning 60k a year, Soviet Union, Stalinist, Stellan Skarsgard, TV, Twitter, Ulana Khomyuk is a composite, Valery Legasov
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Fuck Brexit, play Yakuza 0
For the last two years the hard line Leavers were defiantly ignorant of Britain’s weak hand, the technical complexities of withdrawal agreements and the true logistic and economic costs of importing and exporting with the your largest trading partner after … Continue reading
Posted in Odds & Ends, Politics
Tagged 'Bring back the neo-liberals I'm sorry I didn't mean to pray for anarchy', Brexit, catfights, EU, Eyepatch, Facebook, Fuck that luvvies, GTA V, I'm shite at Mahjong, Instagram, Japanese, Kuryu, Leavers are all Beliebers, Majima, Miracle Johnson, Never mess with a Yakuza sans a pinky, Nightlife, No Deal, Osaka, Out Run, Pokémon Go, SEGA Genesis, She puts the lotion in the basket..., That Tamagotchi bollocks, The DUP hate gay seals, The late 80's, Tokyo, Twitter, Unionism, Yakuza 0
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We blew it.
Leonard Cohen once prophesied ‘Democracy is coming, to the USA’. But despite its lyrical brilliance I highly doubt he would have pictured Donald Trump ever becoming America’s president when ‘Democracy’ was penned twenty-five years ago. I recognise there’s something macabre … Continue reading
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Tagged Cohenism is better than all the other isms, Democracy is coming to the USA, Destructive soapboxing, Digitalism, Disengaged age, Donald Trump, Easy Rider, Facebook, Gone for politics as the category but I dunno really, Justifiably karmic, Leonard Cohen, Media, Newspapers, Nigel Farage, Piousness, Reaganism, RIP Lenny, Terrorism, Thatcherism, The Future, The Simpsons were right, Twitter, We blew it, Will people wake up and stop being so cuntish?, Wyatt and Billy blew it too man
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DEPRESSION Is a song with no ending HAPPINESS Means not pretending RELAX Stop looking at the clock AUSTERITY Is just a load of poppycock GREEKS Arm themselves with facts DYLAN Blood On The Tracks SLEEPING Or am I really awake? … Continue reading
Scaling back from Twitter.
It seemed like a good idea at the time. I’d just started the blogging thing, but I didn’t do Facebook (and never will), so maybe Twitter would be a salubrious method of attaining an audience? Okay, so I didn’t know … Continue reading
Posted in Odds & Ends
Tagged 'Yer maw's got a skinhead' was pretty funny though, Can't be arsed with it anymore, Just me being a dour curmudgeon, Nigerian scammers, Odds & Ends, schadenfreude, See ya later Twatters!, Shoving a Pineapple up your arse, Simon Cowell's chest hair is luxurious, Twitter, Twitter is a shite and I'm shite at it
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