Tag Archives: Darth Vader

Donald Trump appears to have contracted COVID-19

Donald Trump, the man who sentenced well over 200,000 Americans to death when he purposefully downplayed the severity of COVID-19 and refused to take coordinated action, appears to have now contracted the disease himself. Having read more than my fair share of Shakespeare, I’d always thought that this incredibly surreal chapter in American history would […]

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Start Wars: The Force Awakens… don’t call it a sequel, when it’s a remake

I liked the new Star Wars movie. As a fan of the original, I didn’t really have much of a choice about it. I mean, it’s pretty much the same film. I don’t fault Disney and J.J. Abrams for approaching it this way. In their shoes, I would have done the same thing. They essentially […]

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Shadow Art Fair 2012 (part two)

Sorry I only made it a few hours into my Shadow Art Fair live blog before I had to bail out. You’d think that I’d know better by now, having tried to document these things live on several occasions over the past half dozen years. I always think, “this time, it’ll be different,” but it […]

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The coordinated effort to kill the Occupy movement began this morning

As you all know, riot police descended on New York City’s Zuccotti Park at about 1:00 AM this morning, forcefully evicting Occupy Wall Street protesters, and destroying their possessions. There have been reports of pepper spray and billy clubs having been used, but there’s little documentary evidence, as police sealed the area off to reporters, […]

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