Nah, the central concept of a belief in conspiracy theories is that the believer is living life on the outer of all policy and public decisions and watches time and time again as those 'in power' gain rewards for seemingly inept and bankrupt living, so to re-insert said 'loser' as central to his own life, we have a…

We have never had a generation with less prospects and more hyped up demands, adding into that mix the insanity of keeping up social media appearances, something's gotta give!

Yes please read it, the central ghost story is one of the most saddest, most beautiful, most horrific and most wondrous redemption journeys I have ever taken.. Don't be overly concerned with the settings and meaning applied to all the various framing devices and conceits, let every word wash over you and do its work,…

<blue>House</blue> Of Leaves > Crickets > More Crickets > {[Crickets all the way down]}

Have it sat here on the shelf and whenever I open this up at any random page and start reading i feel like I want to cry - the emotional pull between the lines, the negative space, the what is not said, the what should not be accessible via a novel but is palpable within every breath of every page, this is where we…

If you haven't seen him in Funny Bones you will thank me, although maybe not for the Oliver Platt part..

The Oscar one was fine, and also more controversially, that final part of Eat Pray Love, the rest, meh..

Jami Gertz is famous for Twister according to George and Jerry..

<blue>House of Leaves</blue> is the best horror movie filmed in any medium in the last fifteen years, little solace comes
to those who grieve
when thoughts keep drifting
as walls keep shifting
and this great blue world of ours
seems amoments before the wind

Doesn't end with a bang or a whimper buts ends tomorrow arvo aprox. 2pm AEDST after watching the last ever episode of Generation Kill, one of those bona fide classics which this site listed as a clean sweep of A grades. Bravo company is my liberal wet dream of an army, and if I was Obama I would keep the US…

Wednesday comes after Pugsley

<tw>this is not for you </tw>

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An interesting, enlightening and slightly unsettling side by side comparison of the futures available from the perspective of two types of modern male, on the one hand an ascent into entropy and less-ness of the American Liberal in the aftermath of Hurricane Sandy and the counterpoint of an ineffective European…

Gourmet food that taste less like prunes than stew does..

Bravo Company, Generation Kill
Bartlett's staff, The West Wing
The Bluths (not a trick)

Leo is the present favorite for the award, well equal favs with Fassbinder and Brie Larson..

tl;dr

Try Kathe Koja, specifically The Cipher, Alexandra Sokoloff, and always Shirley Jackson.

I feel like I am in the minority here but I am still trying to come to terms with the last few pages of the first section, and his world setting of the next..

Halfway through Houllebeqc's Submission and getting an American Psycho feel, were that skewered shallow capitalism and naive amoral narcissism, this seems wet-dream made for a balding conservative centre-left type, a resignation to whatever and a polemic on the ordinariness of non-polemic politics. The enemy of my…