December 2010
18 posts
Dec 26th
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Life in the angelocracy
tentacular: A disgusted Lucifer goads the spineless, time-serving, obsequious functionary angel Remiel for siding with a totalitarian status quo. ‘What would you have done, had I won?’ Lucifer muses. ‘Told me that you’d always supported me ideologically? That you were secretly cheering me on the whole time?’  So. Vince Cable, then. It’s for a less-than-virtuoso attempt to play Remiel’s game...
Dec 23rd
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“Thatcher’s anti-union laws, left in place by New Labour, are on the statute book...”
– at last | the m john harrison blog
Dec 20th
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“Identities stripped: A: The more I think about it, the more aggravated I get...”
– nihilistic_kid: Too Funny for Facebook
Dec 20th
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Dec 15th
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WatchWatch
tentacular: The scene: a mass demonstration in Tehran/Harare/Rangoon/Pyongyang/&c. The police are filmed shoving a 20-yr-old demonstrator with cerebral palsy from her/his wheelchair & dragging her/him across the pavement, to the horror of onlookers. Footage of this event is sneaked out & publicised. Accordingly, Iranian/Zimbabwean/Burmese/North Korean/&c state broadcasters cannot...
Dec 14th
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“So, the BBC has responded to the furore over its ludicrous interview with Jody...”
– LENIN’S TOMB: Shameless
Dec 14th
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“Soon after seeming to congratulate police for not shooting protestors, Boris...”
– Why these protests are more dangerous than politicians realise
Dec 14th
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“The student protesters of this winter of discontent are my heroes. Instead of...”
– Student protesters: teaching the left’s old guard a thing or two | Billy Bragg
Dec 14th
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“Inevitably, the ‘mob’ - the subject of official invective - is...”
– I am the mob
Dec 13th
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My Top 5 Artists (Week Ending 2010-12-5) →
Blizzard Entertainment (14) The Great Explainer (12) Museum Mouth (10) Castevet (8) I Hate Myself (8) Imported from Last.fm Tumblr by JoeLaz
Dec 10th
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“It is completely unsatisfactory for us as punters, as citizens, as taxpayers, as...”
– Trying to make sense of Julian Assange and Wikileaks « Enemies of Reason
Dec 7th
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“Two hundred students from Goldsmiths, the Slade, St Martin’s, Camberwell...”
– New Statesman - Protesting the Turner Prize: is this the death of irony?
Dec 7th
“The president of the National Union of Students has refused help to student...”
– New Statesman - Student occupiers call on NUS president to stand down
Dec 5th
rejectamentalist manifesto: Out of the mouths of... →
tentacular: If Naomi Klein, say, were to describe the fundamental job of television as ‘selling available human brain time to Coca-Cola’, the snorts of derision at such tedious & passé Dave Spartery would be deafening. Spoken, however, by the CEO of an actual television channel, describing…
Dec 2nd
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“Hundreds of angry protesters besieged Lewisham town hall in Catford last night,...”
– Lewisham anti-cuts protesters have been pushed to the edge | Richard Seymour
Dec 1st
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“The set up as we got to Trafalgar Square was glaringly apparent. Police vans...”
– LENIN’S TOMB: Day X 2
Dec 1st
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“Glenn Greenwald is strongly recommending this startling BBC interview with Bill...”
– Making Light: Holding US journalism in contempt (BBC interview quoted)
Dec 1st
November 2010
15 posts
My Top 5 Artists (Week Ending 2010-11-28) →
Young Adults (31) Blyth Power (27) Go Rydell (24) Museum Mouth (20) Castevet (15) Imported from Last.fm Tumblr by JoeLaz
Nov 30th