Archives for November 2005
An Arrangement of Balloons
As the ‘long list’ for this year’s Bad Sex Award (announced on Friday) strongly suggests (if not proves), convincing literary representations of sexual intercourse, coitus, copulation, humping, screwing (or whatever one wants to call ‘it’) are rather thin on the… continue reading »
Another World
There was an interesting piece by Joshua Glenn in last Sunday’s Boston Globe, dealing with the urgent need (as suggested by Frederic Jameson and others) to rethink ‘Utopian’ impulses at “this moment of neoliberal triumphalism”. The focus is mainly on… continue reading »
Step Right Up
It was no less (or greater) a figure then Bill Cosby who once suggested that: “The very first law in advertising is to avoid the concrete promise and cultivate the delightfully vague.”1 Mark Twain would, I’m sure, have agreed…and probably… continue reading »
Reservoir Willie
Many of you will have already seen the weird (and comical) photograph of, Minister of Defence, Willie O’Dea posing with an automatic pistol (on the cover of The Irish Times), but it’s still worth a second look…
Donald Duck’s Atom Bomb
For those that enjoyed yesterday’s marvellous, anti-communist comic book epic, I came across another truly bizarre oddity on the (wonderful) Authentic History Centre website. Yes ladies and gents, it’s that long-neglected Disney classic Donald Duck’s Atom Bomb (Written and drawn… continue reading »
This Godless Communism
Many thanks to ‘Copernicus’ for pointing me in the direction of the delirious, and hilarious, Treasure Chest comic entitled “Communism: Threat to Liberty” (Sept. 28, 1961). The highlights are many: an ominous introduction by J. Edgar Hoover, a son’s grim… continue reading »
Saturday of the Dead
Ah, zombies….you’ve gotta love ‘em. Not only have they been the decayed backbone of several classic genre flicks (with Romero’s Dawn of the Dead standing proudly at the top of the rotting pile), but they’ve also chewed braaaaaiiinnnnss in one… continue reading »
NaNoWriMo
(with apologies to Flann O’Brien) Myself: Given the relative infrequency of my posts on this oft’ neglected blog, submitting myself to an experiment requiring me to complete a 50,000 word novel by the end of November, may seem the act… continue reading »
