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"I just want to say, I was here fifteen years ago or something, and, uh, I had no idea what I was doing," said Ben Affleck in his acceptance speech when his unremarkable political intrigue thriller, Argo, won Best Picture at the Oscars, "And, uh, I went out, you know, and I never thought that I would be back here. And I am--because of so many of ( Read more... )

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Happy birthday, Kirsty MacColl, the penultimate chapter of my web comic, The Casebook of Boschen and Nesuko, is now online for free.

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This is one my favourite Kirsty MacColl songs. It's sweet and sort of optimistic while at the same time it paints a portrait of a certain kind of misogynist I've encountered all too often and how guys like that can ( Read more... )

If stale beer on mouldy linoleum had a soundtrack, it would be country music. Holy shit. There are some guys working on tearing up the floor in the kitchen right now and they brought their own little radio which they've tuned to the local country station. Somewhere in my mind was an awareness of how bad country music is but I'd kind of forgotten. ( Read more... )

I can't say Argo is the most overrated Oscar Best Picture nominee I've ever seen. Because I've seen the Paul Haggis version of Crash. But the fact that Argo has ended up on so many top ten lists of 2012 movies around the world is puzzling to say the least. It's not exactly a bad movie. It's an involving story, it creates some effective tension and ( Read more... )