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Truly Unpleasant

I don’t know who this cat is, but his/her/its tumblr blog is a pretty excellent collection of western comics, manga, odd Japanese superheroes and various other examples of trashy pop-cultural bric-a-brac. I love it.

Tristan and Yseult

Writers: Anna Maria Murphy and Carl Grose Director: Emma Rice In theory, a play about Cornish separatists shouldn’t be very engaging. Amusing, perhaps, but not quite as edifying, energising and life-affirming as this production of the timeless Tristan and Iseult (aka Yseult or Isolde) from Cornwall’s own Kneehigh theatre company. This retelling of the otherContinue reading “Tristan and Yseult”

Testing the Sexus

I got a new tablet. Well, I got a tablet, anyway. So I’m testing out how well I can blog from here. I may not be the most prolific writer of late, but it’s not for a lack of good intentions. So if this toy, the Google Nexus 7, can help me blog more, thenContinue reading “Testing the Sexus”

New Propagandhi album!

Propagandhi, then. Best band of the last decade, pretty clearly. Very few bands have made an album better than 2005’s Potemkin City Limits, but zero have made two albums as good as that and its follow-up, Supporting Caste (2009). And, until it became a decade old, last year, the prior album, Today’s Empires, Tomorrow’s Ashes,Continue reading “New Propagandhi album!”