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Which of these is coldest?
On a scale of 1 to 10, rate these terms (with 10 being coldest and 1 being least cold). And I mean in a non-undestated sense (such as "it's a bit parky" meaning it's brass monkeys).
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Noir
As Roger Ebert says, "The most American film genre, because no society could have created a world so filled with doom, fate, fear and betrayal, unless it were essentially naive and optimistic." I'm reading Lee Horsley's The Noir Thriller. This covers three periods of Noir, literature and film, each with its own areas of interest, representing the ( Read more... ) -
Is this really that funny?
Perhaps it was the combination of listening to the Rangers v Celtic game on headphones at the same time, or having just watched the new Simon's Cat animation, but still. I laughed so much I cried.
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Possibly excellent podcasts
The Last Tuesday Society has some podcasts on its website but the links don't work properly. So I've examined their HTML and extracted these links for your enjoyment:
Sir John Soane and his collection
Crypto-zoology
William Burroughs and the Torso Murderer
Bataille and Haiti
Women of the Golden Dawn
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Hurrah for Octavius
I was born in Walthamstow, not in Whipps Cross, the larger hospital where David Beckham was born, but in the smaller Thorpe Combe. It's now a psychiatric unit. It was built, as Thirpe Combe House by Octavius Wigram, one of the London and Westminster Light Horse who turned Queen Caroline away from Westminster Abbey in 1820 when she tried to force ( Read more... )
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