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- Dear Esther
- Evolution: The biggest lie ever told!
- A page stage by stage
- Jeremy Clarkson: wrong, and a wally, but ultimately irrelevant
- Dear Jason…
- Chapter 4: planning sketch for the town panorama
- Why does it still have to be said that comics are a medium not a genre?
- Capital punishment is only part of the problem
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Dear Esther
I played Dear Esther around two years ago, I think. Possibly more. It’s one of the best games I’ve ever played and definitely the best mod. The game involves no running, shooting, stabbing, driving, flying, blowing up or indeed down, no stomping, belching, inventorying, levelling up or in fact any concrete goals of any kind, [...]
Evolution: The biggest lie ever told!
Earlier today (and, in fact, yesterday too – but ‘today’ gives the whole episode a pleasing unity, so I’ll stick with it), I had an exchange with someone on Twitter about evolution. Their viewpoint could be summed up as, broadly speaking, religious. Here’s a little of the exchange which led up to this post what [...]
A page stage by stage
End of the week, and it’s been a busy one. I’m in a play that’s on in about a week – A Christmas Carol, and I’m playing Marley’s Ghost, which means I essentially get to be as scary as possible while covered in more chains than a fetishist’s pushbike, which we all know is what [...]
Jeremy Clarkson: wrong, and a wally, but ultimately irrelevant
Guanoman said it pretty well on Twitter the other day: Much as I find the man repugnant in every way, I can’t help but think the reaction to Clarkson has been a massive own goal. Clarkson is a bit of a wally. This is putting my feelings mildly as, who knows, my mother might read [...]
Dear Jason…
(This here will bring you up to speed as to why I feel I must write to Jason.) Dear Jason – may I call you Jason? No? Oh… Dear Arsenugget – may I call you ‘Arsenugget’? Goodo. You are campaigning for student election at LSE. Well done. It’s good to participate in the political process. [...]
Chapter 4: planning sketch for the town panorama
I’ve been taking a break from The Boy with Nails for Eyes for a few weeks, and I intend to do nothing more on it for a few weeks more, while I work on a few other, shorter projects. So I’ve got most of Chapter 4 planned out, and I’ve started a few preparatory sketches [...]
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Why does it still have to be said that comics are a medium not a genre?
In today’s Guardian, an article was published entitled ‘Frank Miller and the rise of cryptofascist Hollywood‘. It was written by Rick Moody, whom I presume to be the American novelist and short story writer (the Graun doesn’t provide any details in the byline). In the article Moody discusses the current output of mainstream Hollywood cinema [...]
Capital punishment is only part of the problem
Writing in yesterday’s Telegraph, Brendan O’Neill highlighted an apparent hypocrisy surrounding the recent, unsuccessful campaign to prevent the execution in Georgia of Troy Davis. The article is short, and makes its point pithily. Here’s what Brendan had to say: Yesterday in America, two men were executed, but you will probably only have heard of one [...]
A counterpoint of view: John Gray and religion vs science
John Gray’s latest article for the BBC’s A Point of View – Can religion tell us more than science? – begins with an account of the conversion of novelist Grahame Greene: [Father Trollope, Greene's converter] was a convert who became a priest and led a highly ascetic life, and Greene didn’t warm to him very [...]
Three limericks for a national daily
There was a paper of fear, hate and pap That refused to donate for a snap: “And stop blocking our ads You horrible cads! How else can we pay for our crap?” There was a paper of flesh boob and butt That headlined: “Just look at this smut!” But don’t worry, you’re clean, You can [...]
