Wrestling Emily Dickinson
The life & opinions of AJ McKenna.
Saturday, 27 November 2021
Mechanical Turk
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The joke is that it never was a robot. The joke is that 'battery hens' is a reference to conditions. The joke is the advert's pr...
Monday, 22 November 2021
Trump gets an 'honorary' black belt
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In his head, he's really going to start thinking he's Frank Dux now. Telling people he was literally trained by Tiger Tanaka, a fic...
Wednesday, 3 November 2021
Cancellation, Baby!
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I want to be famous and considered blameless I want my mates promoted and my critics rendered nameless I want to be rewarded for actions m...
Tuesday, 2 November 2021
Horror Recollected in Tranquility 2: C.H.U.D. (1984)
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What does C.H.U.D stand for? One of the big twists in Douglas Cheek's film is that it doesn't stand for 'Cannibalistic Humano...
Monday, 1 November 2021
Horror Recollected in Tranquility 1: Us (2019)
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In his documentary Jerry Building: Unholy Relics of the Third Reich, the architectural critic Jonathan Meades observes that tunnels are a fo...
Saturday, 28 August 2021
You, and the choices you made
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What you have to understand, what you already do understand if you would stop lying to yourself, stop reassuring yourself that everything y...
Tuesday, 8 June 2021
This business breaks your heart sometimes
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Tonight, at the Cumberland Arms, the pub which has been the lynchpin of the Newcastle poetry scene for decades, they're holding the firs...
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