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Why live your life through a view-finder?

Photography, once a noble art, has become, thanks to the move to digital, a mental illness, says Nigel Farndale.

What is this life if, full of care, we have no time to stand and stare. Click. No time to stand beneath the boughs – click, click – and stare as long as sheep or cows. Click, click, bloody click.

For some time now, my loathing of cameras has been bubbling away on a low heat. The other day it boiled over, leaving my metaphorical cooking surface encrusted with matter that was gluey and black. Continue reading this item…

Full Marx for Karl’s Crytsal Gazing…

“Owners of capital will stimulate the working class to buy more and more expensive goods, houses and technology, pushing them to take on more and more expensive debt, until their debt becomes unbearable.

The unpaid debt will lead to the bankruptcy of all banks, which will have to be nationalised, and the State will have to take the road which will eventually lead to communism.” Continue reading this item…

Old Negro Space Program/Whitey’s on the Moon

What’s Popular Isn’t Aways Right

A group of children were playing near two railway tracks, one still in use while the other unused. Only one child played on the unused track, the rest on the operational track.

The train is coming, and you are just beside the track interchange. You can make the train change its course to the unused track and [...]

Brass Eye: Paedogeddon!

Brass Eye is a UK television series of satirical spoof documentaries which aired on Channel 4 in 1997 and was re-run in 2001.

The series was created by Chris Morris, and written by, amongst others, Morris, David Quantick, Peter Baynham, Arthur Mathews and Graham Linehan, Charlie Brooker. It was conceived as a sequel to Morris’s earlier spoof news programmes On the Hour and The Day Today, and satirised the media’s portrayal of various social ills. In particular, sensationalism and the creation of moral panics.

Brass Eye (1997) was repeated in 2001 as a precursor to a new show; Paedogeddon!

The new episode took on the subject of paedophilia and the associated moral panic prevalent in parts of the British media at the time following the death of Sarah Payne, focusing on the controversial ‘name and shame’ campaign of the News of the World. Continue reading this item…

A Missive to Spiney…

RAND HOBART
RUSSELL COURT
BLOOMSBURY
LONDON, WC1H 0LW
0171-837- / 0966-
rand.h@******.net

YoHoHo & A bottle of Aprés Rasage? Large Kouros & Coke for me please!!

Spiney Norman Esq.
St Anne’s-on-Sea?
Lytham St Anne’s
Lancashire
FY-Summink or t’other.

7th December 1998 Bonjour! Spiney,

(Non. Non. Non). Hola! Spiney,

(No. Spanish? Not that either. No. OK. Let’s try again).

Sholem aleichem! Spiney,
(Yiddishe? Fershtay mama-loshen? No? Oy veh! Me, meshuggeneh!).

Ciao! Spiney,
(Commo Italiano? No). Yo! Bro. W’happen?

(Sorry? of course).
Ah, feck it.

Geezer! Continue reading this item…