Category: Society

“The fear of appearances is the first symptom of impotence.” – Fyodor Dostoyevsky

Jaws, neurocinematic

Neurocinematic Testing: Will It Make You Scream?

24/01/2017

dropcap style=”font-size:100px; color:#992211;”I/dropcap t is always hard to predict the response of a massed audience, and almost impossible to objectively assess creative works. In the...

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The Itch and the Burn. New Jersey Karma

23/01/2017

Anything that could dig a hole had crawled underground. The poolboys feel the burn....

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smoker, cigarette

Smoke, Mirrors and the Gratuitous Gape Shot

21/01/2017

One look at the packet, and you'll definitely need a quick gasper....

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Pardoning Chelsea Manning: A Good Start to an End

19/01/2017

Trump an authoritarian despot? Sorry, the operatives of US imperium have beat you to the putsch....

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Against the Indignities of Trump, We Are Either All Together, or We Fall

18/01/2017

Pearlclutching and professional outrage led us here, it's time to speak plainly....

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urban playground

Urban(e) Legends: Prodigal Theatre & The Urban Playground Team

16/01/2017

Fourth wall on the street? Not our style at all....

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sewage system, watery bowels

Pristine Pools, Watery Bowels and the Septic American Dream

15/01/2017

There are biological consequences to keeping an open sewer of stagnant water in your garden. Even if you call it a pool....

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papa che by Dan Booth

Still Not Listening: Meryl Streep Fails to Charm the Hicks

14/01/2017

Meryl's message may have been astute, but if it ain't coming from a blue collar hick, it's just preaching to the choir....

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To Mow a Meadow (Green Scythe Fair)

12/01/2017

Remember where your food comes from. Remember the hands that toiled for you....

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bullies, empathy, sympathy

Sympathy/Empathy: The Very Air That Evil Breathes.

11/01/2017

Manipulating the reader's revulsion at the bias of a clumsy attack is now an established technique of political propaganda ...

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Play the Devil, strippers

Bad Vibes in the Jersey Punchbowl

09/01/2017

Sex, Strippers and Staph Infections in the Jersey 'Burbs...

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Dan Booth cosmic mind

Politics? Environment? In the end, all is transitory.

07/01/2017

The human heart, an inveterate time-traveler, knows its way through the honey-hived portals of time. ...

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The Ivory Tower, Trump, and the Eclipse of Dignity

06/01/2017

If a Trump win came partly as a reaction to 'the PC brigade', it has to be said they presented an easy target...

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Pee and Loathing in New Jersey

04/01/2017

Of all the strippers' pools to be cleaning, it had to be this one.......

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Love in a Time of Algae: Play the Devil (Extract)

27/12/2016

Like the ancients before us, let’s drink the wine. Smoke the stash. Paint the caves....

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Imaginative christmas

Have An Imaginative Christmas

25/12/2016

Famine, War, Greed. We can fix this. Just add a more rigorous imagination....

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Choose Your Ally Carefully. Why Trust the CIA?

18/12/2016

Just because the CIA is saying what we want to hear doesn't make them credible...

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Blast, Vorticism

Blasting Out of the Vortex: Wyndham Lewis and Vorticism

17/12/2016

From catastrophe comes creativity - Sail into the Vortex....

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Two Faces, One Evil: The Bi-Party Sham of US Democracy

14/12/2016

Clinton, Trump, Putin - Put any one of them in the White House, the rich still get richer...

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Bagpipes

A Wedding Without a Bagpipe is Like a Funeral

10/12/2016

Bagpiping provides a route straight to the heart of another culture....

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A Bought-Out Police State? Plus Ca Change.

09/12/2016

The foundations of a Trump-era corporation-enabling police state were laid by Barack Obama...

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windmill, infinite song

We Are Infinite Song: Consolations of the Soul

02/12/2016

As 2016 enters its final phase, remember: we are as much infinite song as we are earthen flesh...

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Mincer by Dan Booth

Fed Up With Fake News? So Stop Making It.

24/11/2016

Fake News sites cause very real damage, but how do you define 'trustworthy'?...

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Inside the White (Supremacy) House: Steve Bannon as Chief of Staff

19/11/2016

The White House just became whiter with Donald Trump's appointment of Steve Bannon as Chief of Staff....

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Steven M. Miller

Between Noise and Silence: A Retrospective (Steven M. Miller)

16/11/2016

A master of creating sonic tableaux as resonant as a painter's colours and forms ...

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papa che by Dan Booth

Queasy Democrats – Make Your Wound a Womb

11/11/2016

Only an honest appraisal of the situation will prove of benefit for Democrats yet to come...

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Deplorable Lives Matter : Why Sneering at Proles Doesn’t Work Either

05/11/2016

Angry alienated American whites are not a Trump invention, and patronising them won't make them go away...

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Kong by Dan Booth

Trump: The Handy Hillaryite Denial Buddy

29/10/2016

Donald Trump is the arch enabler of Hillaryites' addiction to political pettifoggery...

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Everything’s Fine in the Democrat Echochamber

20/10/2016

A new politics under Hillary? Reform of Wall Street? About as likely as Mexico paying for the TrumpWall...

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David Cronenberg, Consumed

Consumed By Cronenberg

16/10/2016

For the Canadian master of body horror, novel-writing is a cut too far...

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