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August 15, 2017

[SNED] The Jewish Cultural Quarter

It was a sadly appropriate day to become immersed in the Holocaust, it being the same day that has Trump refused to condemn neo-Nazis...


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Published on August 15, 2017 04:15

[SNED] Meatless District :: Hail Seitan!

An incredibly tasty burger that was also so succulent and so sinewy and so mouthwateringly luscious that if I'm being honest, I fell a little bit in love with it.


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Published on August 15, 2017 03:24

June 29, 2017

The Real Problem With Vegans

I'd been feeling sporadically guilty about eating meat ever since a two-year relationship with vegetarianism ended in a drunken assault on a chicken carcass in the summer of 1999...


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Published on June 29, 2017 10:47

June 27, 2017

In the Footsteps of Henry Miller…

I came across a piece of writing by Henry Miller the other day. Here is is here: Henry Miller on Writing. I'd seen it before, and admired it before, but this time it felt like I really needed it. So I copied, pasted and modified it to suit my own needs and bad habits...


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Published on June 27, 2017 10:10

June 26, 2017

Cycling (and Crashing) in Amsterdam :: A Numbers Game

I think about having accidents a lot as I cycle round Amsterdam, so it wasn't particularly remarkable that I'd been doing so just before the car pulled out in front of me.


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Published on June 26, 2017 16:08

April 25, 2017

Nightmares

So I've started having nightmares. Just two so far but two is two too many when you've swallowed all your teeth and you've started killing children...


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Published on April 25, 2017 11:13

March 17, 2017

Feedback Friday :: A Rite of Spring

I'm a little bit wrecked, mostly mental exhaustion, partly Spring Fever, partly weed. It's nice that I've been up all night though. I'm enjoying it. Staying up is like an act of rebellion. An act of rebellion is a rite of Spring.


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Published on March 17, 2017 02:17

March 13, 2017

Logan :: Melancholy, Poignancy, Repugnant Violence, Jokes…

Logan is the story of a depressed, loveless alcoholic with a relatively tidy beard and eight foot-long flick-knives hidden in his knuckles. It's funny and moving and shocked-laugh-inducingly violent...


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Published on March 13, 2017 08:06

A Monster Calls :: Lessons in Coping with Death…

A Monster Calls is the story is of a 13-year-old boy named Conor who is visited by a talking tree voiced by Liam Neeson. It is about death...


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Published on March 13, 2017 07:50

Life, Animated :: When Storytelling Saves Lives…

From the very first moments of Life, Animated — as long as you're not a sociopath — you start to ache with empathy for the Suskinds, the family at the heart of the story...


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Published on March 13, 2017 07:31