Demon Barbarity
The Sweeney Todd opera/musical has finally opened. Me and Lisa saw this a few weeks ago. It’s great. Loud, crass, and with a high body count. Rips off Nosferatu for the entrance of Sweeney...
Monthly Archive: October 2005
Dancing Skeletons
I was looking at some old Hallowe’en posts on this blog and I found that the 2001 site linked for the Dancing Skeletons had disappeared. But on the Internet, nothing stays lost forever…
Monkey Sex Magic
One of the greatest learning experiences of my childhood was watching “Monkey” (Saiyki). Because of the bad dubbing and incomprehensible Buddhist allusions, I had very little idea of what the fuck was going on...
Badr and Sadr – Together Again
Three of Iraq’s most powerful Shiite Muslim religious parties on Thursday formed a reshuffled alliance to field a slate in December’s legislative elections, raising the prospect that balloting will once more break along ethnic...
Nudge Nudge Wink Wink
Documents obtained by CNN reveal the United States knew about, and even condoned, embargo-breaking oil sales by Saddam Hussein’s regime, and did so to shore up alliances with Iraq’s neighbors … Estimates of how...
Microsoft Word Is *Hard*
THE United Nations withheld some of the most damaging allegations against Syria in its report on the murder of Rafik Hariri, the former Lebanese Prime Minister … The names of the brother of Bashar...
The 1% Solution
Up to 65 per cent of Iraqi citizens support attacks and fewer than one per cent think Allied military involvement is helping to improve security in their country.
Deep In The Core
A video of what is currently thought to be the closest star to the supermassive black hole at the centre of our galaxy. The star orbits the black hole in a highly elliptical orbit...
Biased But Worth Reading
Loyalist musical culture is an almost entirely self-contained one. The bands and singers perform almost exclusively in specifically Loyalist venues; often social clubs which are linked to paramilitary organisations. The CDs and tapes sell...
GTA Ireland – Colostomy Wars
Ireland’s criminal gangs are more dangerous and unpredictable than ever … Their lives are fast and short, their violence is said to be almost psychopathic. Some who lost kidneys in shoot-outs continued to wage...