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Tag: comedy

  • In The Loop Review (spoilers)

    This is magnificent — and it is true! It never happened; yet it is still true! What magic art is this? Robin Goodfellow in Sandman #19 by Neil Gaiman In The Loop was generally what I expected and hoped it would be – a hilarious, somewhat unsettling satire on how we managed to stumble into…

  • You are all individuals! (Obamamania)

    I didn’t watch Obama’s inauguration this evening. Instead, I sat on the bus reading the coverage on Twitter. For some reason, reading all these excited 140-character messages about Obama bigging up the atheists and getting down with the gays (or possibly not) – interspersed with irrelevancies – reminded me quite a lot of this:

  • Godless carols

    On Sunday, the gf and I went to the Hammersmith Apollo to see the final performance of Nine Lessons and Carols for Godless People. By coincidence, albeit perhaps not that much of a coincidence given that both being plugged into a lot of the same networks, we hear about a lot of things at around…