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Scary Monsters

20/02/2014

Fiction is fiction and monsters are not predators: they're monsters. As such they're human projections, our worst nightmares made flesh. ...

Kraftwerk Uncovered at The Science Museum

17/02/2014

It was only natural that sooner or later, Kraftwerk would materialise in some form at the Science Museum...

Chavs and Austerity

15/02/2014

For those of us caught in austerity, there was no shock. Austerity is a forced return home....

A picture of Interzone, an event celebrating William S Burroughs

Interzone at the Barrier

13/02/2014

There were around 250 people milling around the makeshift bunker and most of them had taken the trouble to dress for excess....

Death on the Fault Line

10/02/2014

Torture, blood sacrifice and sinister messages extracted from Beatles lyrics. The final surges of the California Death Ray. ...

Since Zero Dark Thirty (Martin Delaney)

07/02/2014

People like me are just the manifestation of an over-active mind, not cut out for the hard work of the real world! ...

Loving the Cosplay

06/02/2014

I do it for the same reason other cosplayers do it - to escape from the tyranny of ‘self’. ...

Edward Snowden Interview [Live Leak]

03/02/2014

A quick repost of NSA Whistleblower Edward Snowden's interview with German channel NDR....

Beards, Boots and Balaclavas. North Pole

21/01/2014

-40C has a nasty habit of damaging the human body no matter how good the kit or how hardy you believe you are....

Listening : Modes and Strategies

20/01/2014

Listening is largely, though not exclusively, a conscious activity. ...

Poisoning Coal Country Isn’t Freedom

18/01/2014

A Mining Disaster in Coal Country Pushes the Limits of 'Freedom' in Industry...

Maria Kempinska, Jongleurs : Interview

16/01/2014

Can a woman be beautiful and funny? I have heard many intelligent men say no, but I totally disagree. But the road to comedy fame is decidedly harder....

Business Interview : Colin Leslie Eyewear

10/01/2014

People need to appreciate that we are all responsible for our environment. If we wish to maintain certain standards and ways of living, we need to....

Charlie Brooker is Rubbish – A Meditation

09/01/2014

Brooker’s nosedive into Planet Shite was neither inevitable nor certain. We all get older, but we don’t have to get old....

Drawing Inspiration

07/01/2014

Symbols don't mean anything; rather they are fecund triggers to the imagination that allow meaning to arise through their contemplation....

An Emotive Wartime Journey. Yours for £2

04/01/2014

That the Royal Mint Advisory Committee chose to commemorate that 'emotive wartime journey' with the iconic image of Lord Kitchener should come as no surprise....

My Dark Song : Bobby Beausoleil

03/01/2014

Bobby Beausoleil and Charles Manson. The collision of two dominant personalities would certainly be the trigger for the first and, perhaps, all three of the gory and ritualistic Manson Family...

Dragon Paths and Pilgrimages

02/01/2014

At a time when many of us experience a profound sense of disconnection or even alienation from the land, we need more modern pilgrimages...

A picture of documents by Nuttakit/Freedigitalphotos.net

Now the Party’s Over. 2013

01/01/2014

What happens if something good happens at the close of year? How can we definitively say what were the highlights of 2013 until it has actually finished? ...

50 Years of Social Progress. Reversed.

28/12/2013

People born in the 1960’s and 70’s will retire poorer than their parents...

Alan De Niro : Tyrannia

27/12/2013

The value of De Niro's writing is not in what is depicted but in tone, theme, and the disconcerting mood of the short pieces as they seed doubts and second-guesses in the reader. ...

Happy Holidays from Trebuchet

26/12/2013

2014 Cultural Forecasts and Happy Holidays from all the staff at Trebuchet...

A Christmas Consumer Guide to Ethical Food

20/12/2013

Talking Turkey: A Christmas Consumer Guide to Ethical Food...

666 Degrees of Separation

20/12/2013

Manson has lost some of his ability to exercise the media for his own sinister purpose, but still retains the sanguine air of a devil in temporary chains....

Applied Carpe Diem : Part 2

13/12/2013

What makes a person choose whether or not to end one’s own life? It comes back to that tradeoff, I suppose, between quality vs. quantity....

A picture of a broken window by Carl Byron Batson

Kentucky Fried 3D Printing

09/12/2013

In a future where any garage, shed or corner of a living room could be turned into a miniature factory, what will be the point of large scale manufacturing?...

Sarah Cressall (The Creation Station) [Interview]

05/12/2013

The process of taking risks, trying new ideas, exploring new avenues and just asking the ‘what if ?’ and ‘I wonder how’ questions, is what makes us human...

Man on Bench copyright Carl Byron Batson

Boris Johnson’s Plans For Unaffordable Housing

30/11/2013

Londoners should brace for themselves for an influx of toffs whilst the poor sleep on the streets if Boris Johnson’s latest Housing Strategy goes ahead...