Derrida watch
Reading obituaries; comment pieces; jokey, dismissive jibes; personal tributes; and public commemorations: it’s still clear that pretty much no-one knows what to say about JD. About JD the man there’s a consensus, from those[…]

An Occurrence on Territorial Road
1983, junior year, and I have recently been accepted into the ranks of the pretty-cool-high-school-kid group. Not the top echelon, mind you, but doing okay for myself, thanks to success in sports and a pretty and acc[…]

WATCH WITH MOTHER: LAST OF THE SUMMER WINE
mark s (after watching in silence for a time): do you find this funny? mum s (for it is she, back home and a lot better hurrah!): not really *long pause w.canned laughter* mark s: did you ever? mum s: no *l[…]

PORN STUDIES
Linda Williams, ed.
I never took any courses from Linda Williams while she taught at UCI, but this is no surprise — I was in grad school for English lit while she was over in film studies, and though there can be and is some crosso[…]

What with Team America: World Police coming out in the US this week, much has been said about Super-Marionation of late. After the stupendous errors of the Thunderbirds film it seems that puppets may well often be the way to go in films. Which may ex[…]

TEAM AMERICA: WORLD POLICE
dir. Trey Parker
My good friend and possessor of similarly misanthropic sense of humor Dan Perry has asserted that the tempest in a teacup over this movie — in America at least, over the past couple of weeks — s[…]

I am probably what would be known (in barbed terms by many people) as a fair-weather fan. The connection between my football team and me is a couple of teenage years when frankly there was little else on a Saturday afternoon. Since then I have seen f[…]

INDIE CHICKEN EXTRA
In as much as I did not eat it, and it was not even chicken. But spotted, in Wood Green Shopping City, opposite the Wood Green Cineworld multiplax is a shared concession. Favorite Fried Chicken / Ardo’s African Kitchen. It i[…]

FREAKY TRIGGER TOP 25 SCARIEST THINGS
15: A Red Hot Poker In The Eye
SIZZZZLE!!!!
Let us break this down. Is this fear a mere conflation of a number of individual horrible things, happening all at once. The invasion of the eye, the fear of blindness,[…]

Pub graffiti you have known
“Oats are a great herbal solution to depression. Eat porridge or muisli every day for breakfast for a week. I promise you you’ll be able to tell the difference”
This is the most annoying graffiti I’[…]