Friday, 7 March 2025

Performing and performing

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  A bit of self-promotion to start with: on Saturday March 15th I'm performing at Transtock , an all-trans music and poetry festival at ...
Thursday, 6 March 2025

Christmas is the Dragon

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Brian Kiteley, author of The 4 A.M. Breakthrough , a book of 'unconventional writing exercises' I am currently reading because I am ...
Monday, 3 March 2025

Who Stays Cancelled? Who Decides?

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  Yes, I know I used this yesterday. I'm going to use it as the actual thumbnail when I record the last entry for my YouTube channel as...
Sunday, 2 March 2025

Midcult and Morality: What (Almost) Everybody Gets Wrong About Tàr and 'Cancel Culture'

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  I am, to an embarrassing degree, a fan of Cate Blanchett. And yet, for a long time, I resisted seeing her Oscar-winning performance in Tod...
Thursday, 27 February 2025

An Apology and a Recommendation

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 In retrospect it was an act of supreme hubris to commit to updating this blog more regularly the week before I managed to acquire a copy of...
Saturday, 22 February 2025

Christ, What a Whiny Bitch: on Street Preachers and Jesus on Film

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 Since we seem to have gotten into something of a groove discussing movies about Christianity lately, let's roll with it and talk about ...
Thursday, 20 February 2025

The Bodies and the Lucky Ones

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 You know, for a queer lapsed Catholic heretic I sure like a lot of movies about priests.  John Michael McDonagh's Calvary makes a good...