Category: Blog Post
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Comedy Review: Bridget Christie
Edinburgh Festival 2011 – Housewife Surrealist I was standing, as is my will to do, yesterday at the Virgin half-price ticket desk looking for festival bargains while tirelessly trying to avoid the endless repeats of Puppetry of the Penis, Titanic 2 and the many many productions of some second rate Sarah Kane show by undersexed…
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Film Review: The Guard
Sometimes as you get to the end of a long week at work, mentally exhausted, desperate to leave the reality of working life behind as you head into the weekend, tired of tension and stress you need to relax, sit back and laugh. I found myself at the end of a very long week in…
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The Failed Writer – Preface
The preface of any book is usually written after the book has been completed. It’s the section where the author thanks his loyal audience for purchasing this “essential read” and for embarking upon an “emotional rollercoaster” with this the sole occuping project that has filled their lives for the previous few years. They also usually…
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Shared Houses
I’m 26. Now when I became 26 i realised that it meant that I am, as my good friends kindly informed me “closing in on 30”, “life ends after 25” or as one more pessimistic friend, and I use the word friend conditionally said, “getting ready for death.” I’ve found it weird to be honest…
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Film Review: JCVD
Some actors are born great, some acquire greatness and some have greatness thrust upon them. However for some the road is less easily trodden, they glimpse greatness, come crashing down, appear in Streetfighter the movie (alongside Kylie) before being seemingly cast away on the scrapheap of actors who we laugh at for their previous errors.…
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Facebook (Part 3)
Now around that time my work life was collapsing in around me, that’s not to say that I was made unemployed, that simply was not the case. In fact it was considerably worse than that, I was spending too much time at work, because I liked it. Now I’m aware that is not a phrase…
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Facebook (Part 2)
So essentially this is how it begins. It’s three and a half years ago and I am sat in the kitchen of a house I don’t like, have never liked, yet, for reasons unbeknownst to myself I found unable to leave and I am unhappy. I should also mention that perhaps it wasn’t entirely the house I…
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Facebook (Part 1)
Enter to applause. Good evening Ladies and Gentlemen, thank you very much that’s very kind, possibly excessively kind some might say, but I won’t say that as I’m aware that there are very few jokes in the next 60 minutes and I need to take all the ego-boosting possible to get through it. In a…