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The Semi-Visible Man 1

Posted on February 25, 2025 by

It’s taken me four weeks to write this, because I barely knew where to start.

Channel 4 showed the singular and vastly wonderful The Banshees Of Inisherin at the weekend, and as brilliant as it is in its own right, it also came loaded with all sorts of resonances and finally prodded me into action.

The equally singular and wonderful Jonathan Nash, who will be known to readers of this isolated and quiet island parish under a variety of names, died last month, of death. It was sudden yet expected, and in those respects very much the opposite of the man himself.

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Category horror, mighty powers, news from the world, weirdness

We Are All Going To Hell 14

Posted on February 01, 2022 by

I made the mistake of reading this on the BBC website today.

And I don’t think I’ve ever hated humanity more than I do right now.

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Category horror, idiots, media, misc, rage, TV

The Modern Videogames Console: A Guide 6

Posted on February 23, 2017 by

The process of simply buying the Xbox One took me either three days or eight weeks, depending on how you look at it, due to a combination of how retail works these days and the gibbering random madness that is GAME's pricing and corporate structure. But I'm not even going to get into that here.

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What you should know is what happened next.

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Category horror, idiots, videogames, wrongness

Don’t you ever 14

Posted on September 10, 2012 by

"…don't you ever / Lower yourself, forgetting all your standards"

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Category horror, music

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