Old-School Etiquette (For Men)

October 26, 2011

From the ‘Ask Men’ website in 2008.   Some points are repeated and/or Americanised, but I found it quite amusing, especially as most men I know barely follow these (although I know I am guilty of poor punctuality and cursing).  A brilliant guide to decent behaviour in an otherwise rude society. Always be polite Even [...]

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The Retro Age

October 20, 2011

A blog written in February 2009, which is still relevant as the retro age rumbles on.   A lot of this is a repeat of  my ‘Selling Out’ blog (a lot of my writing tends to cover the same theme sometimes) but also covers fashion and movies and other ‘stuff,’ to an extent. The Retro Age [...]

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Know Thy Enemy (Christopher Logue)

October 20, 2011

Know Thy Enemy, a brilliant poem by Christopher Logue (not the edited version used by many left-wing parties and in 1960s Paris); He does not care what colour you are provided you work for him. He does not care how much you earn provided you earn more for him. He does not care who lives [...]

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Hogan Knows Worst

October 20, 2011

A blog written back in June 2008.  Hogan has since gone on to divorce his wife and marry his daughter’s friend (!) and return to wrestling yet again in TNA, sadly going down the route of Ric Flair, Jake the Snake, Terry Funk etc, who all became shadows of their former selves.  Still my favourite [...]

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Accepted Prejudices

October 15, 2011

As I haven’t been uploading many new articles of my own lately (for various reasons, the main one being simply that I’ve been incredibly busy/tired of late), here’s a good one that I read back in March 2007 by an MSN journalist called Laura Simpson.  It’s quite funny, and also pathetically rather true. Gingerism to [...]

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Film Review – The Three Musketeers (2011)

October 12, 2011

The Three Musketeers (PG13) Out October 12. Paul W.S. Anderson briefly left Resident Evil territory to film his take on Alexandre Dumas’s classic tale, making it mostly action (for a 3D audience) and adding a little steampunk fantasy. The adaptation stays fairly true to the book, but like most other films the story is changed [...]

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Source Code film review

September 6, 2011

Source Code (12A) This intriguing sci-fi thriller stars Jake Gyllenhall (Donnie Darko, Brokeback Mountain) as Captain Colter Stevens, a soldier who wakes up in the body of another man on a train that is about to blow up. Joined by the man’s unsuspecting work colleague Christina (Michelle Monaghan), he learns that he has 8 minutes [...]

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Unknown film review

September 6, 2011

  Film Review: Unknown (12A) Liam Neeson (Schindler’s List, Batman Begins) heads back into recently successful action drama territory as Dr. Martin Harris, a man whose identity appears to have been taken over by another man. Dr. Harris is involved in a car crash heading back to an airport to pick up a forgotten suitcase.   [...]

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Limitless film review

September 6, 2011

Limitless (15) Bradley Cooper (The Hangover, The A Team) stars as Eddie Morra, a scruffy writer whose life is instantly changed by a strange drug in this sci-fi thriller loosely based on the book ‘The Dark Fields’. Morra’s life is going nowhere as he struggles to meet deadlines for a book and is dumped by [...]

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Water for Elephants film review

September 6, 2011

Water for Elephants (12A) Directed by Francis Lawrence and based on the novel by Sara Gruen, Water for Elephants is a historical drama starring Robert ‘Twilight’ Pattinson as Jacob Jankowski, a student vet who ends up with a travelling circus after a family tragedy. Set in the American Depression, Jacob heads off to a different [...]

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