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Mental Illness Happy Hour 12 Oct 2011 | 07:15 am
I get addicted to podcasts. It’s not a problem because it’s a free addiction, it’s just a fact. Normally, it will take me a couple of times listening to different episodes to get really into a show. A...
Reads of the Week 14 Aug 2011 | 12:52 am
A quick note. Apologies for the lack of posting still. A couple of things in the works at the moment so time has been difficult to find. I intend to get back onto a pretty good posting schedule again ...
Reads of the Week 24 Jul 2011 | 06:09 am
Great read on the CIA’s secret sites in Somalia from The Nation. Always a great site for solid investigative reporting. Slightly cloying Peter Biskind profile of Warren Beatty and the making of Reds....
Reads of the Week 3 Jul 2011 | 12:13 am
A long profile of now-former CIA director Leon Panetta, focusing mostly on the difficulties he faced from the lingering impact of Bush administration interrogation techniques. Panetta comes across as ...
Links of the Week 26 Jun 2011 | 11:14 pm
This is from a few weeks back, but to coincide with the second series of Louie, here is a profile of Louis CK from NY Mag. His show seems like its the culmination of the journey he has been on as a co...
Reads of the Week 26 Jun 2011 | 07:47 am
A truly astonishing piece by Michael Lewis, ‘Beware of Greeks Bearing Bonds’, in which he discusses how the Greek economy collapsed into its itself through years of institutionalised corruption. Some ...
Working Music: Bon Iver 21 Jun 2011 | 05:24 am
New album out today and definitely going into the collection as soon as the pay packet arrives. This cover, widely circulated from Fallon a week or two back, of Bonnie Raitt’s ‘I Can’t Make You Love M...
The Shadow Line 20 Jun 2011 | 05:00 am
**If you haven’t seen The Shadow Line, and its currently available to watch on iPlayer in full, then don’t read as some major plot spoilers will be brought to light and anyone planning to watch the se...
Links of the Week 19 Jun 2011 | 11:23 pm
This AV Club article questioning whether cable TV is still delivering higher quality product than network TV in the US is one I disagree with nearly whole-heartedly, but it does at least make some int...
Trailer: Daylight 19 Jun 2011 | 03:50 am
The art of making a compelling trailer for a film is not one lost or forgotten, just often neglected. The vast majority of trailers you see follow a very similar pattern of establishing the basic narr...
