Will the Blogger

Reviewer of films, telly and books. Mulholland Drive obsessive. Bear aficionado. Collector of silly web videos.

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“It is happening again”

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Delicatessen Counter by Wayne Thiebaud, 1961

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Sandwich Platter by David Gilhooly

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In the sport’s heyday, two snookering archetypes seemed to be at war, and television dramatized the duality. There were the champions, clean-cut automatons who ruled the game for years at a time before abruptly burning out: Ray Reardon, a former policeman, in the nineteen-seventies; Davis, in the nineteen-eighties; Stephen Hendry, a baby-faced Scot who won a record seven world titles, in the nineteen-nineties. And there were the broken and the beautiful, who produced exquisite passages of play but couldn’t keep their heads together: Kirk Stevens, a Canadian cocaine addict who played in a white suit; Alex (the Hurricane) Higgins, who died, furious and alcoholic, of throat cancer, in 2010; and Jimmy (the Whirlwind) White, who reached six world finals and lost them all.

Follow the White Ball, The New Yorker

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Thanks for rubbing it in, wealthy global elite

Spotted at Tottenham Court Road Tube Station, London

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The Red Egg, Otto Kokoschka

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The Operation, Max Oppenheimer

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Car, Josef Bolf, 2005

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Large Meal, Mikuláš Medek,1956

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Little Red Riding Hood, Michael Rittstein

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All sorts of lurid scenarios would flash into his mind like tableaux vivants: Mrs Fox's skirts catching on the branches of a tree, and being torn right off; Mrs Fox being attacked by a degenerate ruffian, who might succeed in baring her bosom before Henry Smote him down; Mrs Fox's clothing catching fire, necessitating his prompt action; Mrs Fox sleepwalking to his house, in the night, for him to restore to dignity with his own dressing-gown.

Henry Rackham is helpless with impure thoughts about Mrs Emmeline Fox in The Crimson Petal and the White by Michael Faber.

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Fashion show scene from Liquid Sky.

Music by Keyboard Cat.

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Flag of Anadyr - Smug bear clutches a fish

Flag of Zheleznogors - Fierce bear splits the atom

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The perfect customer is dissatisfied but hopeful, uninterested in serious personal development, highly habituated to the television, working full-time, earning a fair amount, indulging during their free time, and somehow just getting by.

David Cain, at Raptitude.com

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Fan fiction is a way of the culture repairing the damage done in a system where contemporary myths are owned by corporations instead of by the folk.

Henry Jenkins (Director of media studies at MIT)

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Over the Rainbow by Rachel Maclean.

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Video artist Rachel Maclean is interviewed by Kirsty Wark as her new show Happy & Glorious opens at Glasgow's CCA.