Wrestling Emily Dickinson
The life & opinions of AJ McKenna.
Sunday, 15 February 2009
Triumph of the Force: Star Wars and Fascism
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Thanks to Jonah Goldberg's laughable Liberal Fascism , I've been reading a lot of definitions of fascism lately, both on the interw...
Wednesday, 4 February 2009
Frank Gallagher pulls on his waterskis
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One hates to accuse a television show of jumping the shark , but after having watched the second episode of the new series of Shameless , I ...
Tuesday, 3 February 2009
Third Bookshop review - A Love Supreme
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(Note to readers of this blog: the following review does not, as yet, appear on my bookshop's site, so this marks its first publication....
Second Bookshop review - Anchorman
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(Note to readers of this blog - I think the main value of this review lies in the quality specimen of the cheesy ending with which it conclu...
First bookshop review - Cultural Amnesia
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(Note to readers of this blog: one of the things you need to take into consideration when working at a bookshop is that when recommending a ...
I can do short too, y'know
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What I notice about the three preceding reviews is that they're frackin' long pieces, and the reader's spirits may understandabl...
This low and violent art - reading 'The Wrestler'
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1. In her essay ‘The Joy of Sesquipedalians’, Anne Fadiman writes about a pleasure which will be familiar to many readers of this blog: the ...
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