SATURDAY MATINEE 5 – WHY WE FIGHT

This week we have Eugene Jarecki’s Why We Fight which, amongst other things, examines the lies that are used to manipulate the public into supporting wars…

WHAT’S THE FORM?

About three hours ago I was in a situation where I felt that whichever thing I did would have been rude in a different way. I was working and needed the caretaker to open a door for me that was up a flight of stairs. She was a middle-aged woman but quite infirm and extremely [...]

HURRY UP AND QUALIFY AGAIN

The most galling thing about Scotland not qualifying for major tournaments is that we have to put up with the same nonsense every 2 years about Scotland supporting England…or more accurately…NOT supporting England. At least the next time we qualify, we will have less of this stuff. I won’t be supporting England (better known as [...]

GREASED LIGHTNING LANDED

Instead of writing bad reviews, my usual tactic with films and things I don’t like it is simply not to mention them in the hope that they just go away. It doesn’t often seem to work. I have always hated Grease but and it has unfortunately not gone away. I thought  I would therefore make [...]

IT WISNAE THERE

I did a quick internet search a moment ago to see if i could find a conjugation of the verb “to be” in Scots instead of English. There didn’t appear to be one so I thought I would have a go. I know there are different dialects all around Scotland so this might just be [...]

300,000

In the next couple of hours it will be 300,000 hits on the site so thank you all. I hope I haven’t bored you too much. To celebrate, here is an unrelated scene from catch 22

JUST BECAUSE WE ARE PARANOID, DON’T MEAN THEY ARE NOT AFTER US

This is the first thing I have done about Celtic (fc) in a while and it is just a small comment. Watched the game today and saw Robbie Keane our new superstar score the winner. I also saw his disbelief at the yellow card he got. I shared that. I know he is only here [...]

SATURDAY MATINEE 4 – THE MIAMI MODEL

A film about the errrmmm… ‘enthusiastic’ policing at the FTAA protests in Miami 2003. My review of it is here.

BIT OF A SURPRISE

A few days ago I was looking at some things about nepal when I found a link to a tourism site there. The thing that immediately caught my eye was the slogan which says “Once is not enough”. Now, that happens to be the same title as my book (which you can download on the [...]

SATURDAY MATINEE 3 – HOLLYWOOD AND THE PENTAGON

A shortish but good documentary about the history of Hollywood and the pentagon working together. I also wrote a review of it which you can read here.