Friday Reading Still Eats Big Dinners S10E12

…rt a blog – Discontinued Notes. He writes about archive TV and music and found objects on the street and sitting on the top deck of the bus. I love it. Fundamentally, it’s still an Assassin’s Creed game. There’s still a big map with stuff to do but by changing the way I discovered those points of interest on the map, by making them a bit more of a mystery, it made me enjoy the rote act of discovery just a little more. This review has actually made…

m-orchestra – More Ghost Stories EP and live shows

…ing some archive live footage and playing out all the tracks from the EP and more. You can find that here. There will, hopefully, be some more stuff later in the month, TBD etc. Thanks very much for your time, and it would be lovely to see some of you in the comments at these events. Having said that, as I always say to my daughter when she compares my livestream numbers to Ariana Grande’s number of Spotify plays and mocks me relentlessly, a few p…

Friday Reading S11E06

…right to publish what The Inquirer chooses to publish. Why we’re removing comments on most of Inquirer.com I was absolutely fucking incandescent this week, in the wake of RTD’s It’s A Sin, to see Good Morning Britain have Piers Morgan speak to Andrew Pierce about HIV/AIDS in the 80s, and to see Pierce recount the way he was stigmatised for being an out gay man at the time, and how it was treated like a “gay plague”. He spoke about in his local pu…

Friday Reading S12E06

…2021) – although the version that went out as a newsletter appears to have come through completely mangled. “I read Sathnam Sanghera’s Empireland earlier this year which has allowed me to profoundly sharpen my perspective on how colonialism and empire shaped a lot of British thinking and popular culture without people realising it, and I think the Evil of the Daleks is a classic example of that. Kemel, played by Sonny Caldinez, is the only charact…

Happy 20th anniversary to my blog – and a merry Xmas to you

…design several times, eventually I moved from currybet.net to martinbelam.com, and now the lovely William Turrell makes it all tick for me rather than my being my own sysadmin and it breaking every six months etc, but twenty years, eh? Blimey. Imagine just how many terrible cancellable opinions about journalists I published back then. And they are all still live on the internet. Christ. Anyway, talking of Christ, I wish you a very Merry Christmas…

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