At The Coffee Shop of Curiosities by Heather Webber - Tor Publishing, 2023 - In reading contemporary fiction, I was coming to the conclusion that dystopias, crime, murder and mayhem were the only things on the menu - obviously far easier for writers to imagine than utopian bliss. It appears now that I wasn’t reading …
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Warlight by Michael Ondaatje - McClelland & Stewart, 2018 - If you have fond memories of ‘The English Patient’ you will likely enjoy this book by Ondaatje. It’s written in the style of a memoir with the main character, Nathaniel Williams (called Stitch by Rose, his mother), reflecting on his life when he was a …
Heading into the fall, ‘Murica is now facing a Prez election - a prospect that has voters in the country headed off in droves to their favorite watering holes to kick back a few brewskies. In fact, a large part of the electorate is hoping the ballot will offer a box with ‘Neither Candidate’ in …
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The Duke - 2020 Netflix based on a true story from the 1960's and The Bank of Dave - 2023 Netflix based on a ‘true-ish’ story from the 2010’s England has a long tradition of eccentric nonconformists and their stories are often as entertaining as the characters are colorful. These aren’t the kind of nitwits …
Alabama’s Supreme Court has now declared frozen sand grains to be viable children. In their ruling, the Alabama Court cited the Bible, (Matthew 16:18) in which Jesus says: ‘Thou art Peter, and upon this rock I will build my church;’ The Chief Justice asserted that their ruling was a natural progression. Since Peter was a …
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Wonka - 2023 on Amazon Prime Wonka is a ‘prequel’ to Roald Dahl’s classic ‘Charlie and the Chocolate Factory’. Directed by Paul King, it stars Timothée Chalamet as the young Willy Wonka, full of ambition and ready to make his mark in the world. Arriving in the big city with dreams of starting his own …
Pierre (Cluck-Cluck) Poulet, that feisty bantam-weight pugilist and leader of the Consumptive Party of Kanadoodle, has smoothed down his tail feathers, trimmed his talons and had his beak polished for his latest television advertisement promoting his suitability for the highest perch in the land - Prime Ribber. Yes, it’s a warmer, kinder and gentler Cluck-Cluck …
I was browsing on Facebook the other day and saw a post being circulated by some ‘conservative’ group. It was a split picture, one side showing a smiling transvestite crouching down in order to greet a small girl and the other side pictured a lion cornering a baby gazelle. Really. Sadly, it’s an all too …
Have you heard the howls and seen the bitter tears from the billionaire Elong Musk-rat now his car company’s remuneration has been overturned by the courts? I’m sure Musk-rat pleaded with the judge about how hard it is to get by on a measly $56 billion a year, but it seems his lamentations fell on …
Who Lost Russia? by Peter Conradi, Oneworld Publications 2017 (revised 2022) - The question at the heart of Conradi’s book is how Russia went from the collapse of the Soviet Union under Gorbachev, through a disastrous attempt at becoming a western style ‘free market’ economy under Yelstin to the rise of Putin and his war …
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