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private matters and public things: Mockupy Wall Street
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Private matters and public things. A blog about comedy and jokes. Tuesday, November 15, 2011. It has been crushingly unsurprising to witness the rampantly dishonest, patronising, and snarky coverage of the Occupy Wall Street movement(s), from the freebie rags (the AM and Metro syndicates) to the populist servants of the rich. The New York Post has been chomping at the bit, frothing over their front pages:. OWS are "shits"; they're "animals". Fox Nation managed to transmit one article. I have become incre...
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private matters and public things: Say what?
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Private matters and public things. A blog about comedy and jokes. Sunday, September 11, 2011. Not having bothered to blog in a while (during which time, this blog escaped and went feral, submitting posts under its own name on bizarre astronomical and eskimo-porn web-sites; I wrangled it back this morning with the promise of cookies, and then subdued it with a benzodiazapene-spiced cracker), I had no real inclination to blog today. If I didn't have anything to say, why say it? They are, in many ways, like...
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Unspeak » The book
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8220;Should be required reading for reporters and editors everywhere” Slate. 8220;Compelling… at its satirical best,. 8216;s implacable rage harks back to the thundering tirades of the Augustan era” Daily Telegraph. Is in the best sense a stimulus and a provocation. Unmasking unspeak is addictive, and anyone can play.” Times Literary Supplement. From the passage on Intelligent Design. And from the chapter on Freedom. The book can be purchased from amazon.com. And amazon.co.uk. And also a review of reviews.
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Unspeak » Education
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Is an important key, yes. September 15, 2011 5 comments. Isn’t impressed with. Or any general worries about the increasing practice of making young people (at least those who can afford it) work for free, in times of sharply increasing youth unemployment. But forcing employers to provide pay and benefits and comply with lots of red tape is surely the quickest way to put them off, thereby depriving young people of an early experience of the future of work. The future of work is… unpaid? Now means, I deduc...
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Unspeak » Functionally insane
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Amis and madness redux. November 18, 2011 4 comments. Don DeLillo, one of the world’s greatest living writers, has a new short-story collection out. I reviewed it here. And Martin Amis reviewed it here. Gaily wasting the first 500 of his allotted words on a tedious and dubious theory about why when we “love” a writer’s work, that really means that “we love about half of it”. Rdquo;. ( Previously in “Martin Amis”: Any ethnicity. He’s got no talent. For Amis, it seems that people in literature are just to ...
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Unspeak » Media
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Don’t you wonder sometimes about sound and vision? 8220;Learning Jargonese”, Battle of Ideas panel discussion, Institute of Ideas, 2 November 2008:. Who Touched Base In My Thought Shower? Better Zen through gadgetry? Rationality and its discontents. Sends the wrong message. On drugs and horses. Some sort of fascist. Against the Orwell cult. Not a kind of biscuit. What to call Scientology. Porn and thoughtcrime redux. Fault between brain and mouth. Martin Amis's call to racism. Child porn and thoughtcrime.
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Unspeak » FAQ
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What does ‘Unspeak’ mean? Is it the same as spin, or doublespeak, or Newspeak? Please read the extract from the book’s Introduction. Which explains the idea in detail. Who are you anyway? Why should I buy your book? You don’t have to! But the material in the book is not on this blog, as the book came first. Also has that lovely paper feel; the print is pretty legible, and it smells quite nice. Have a look at the extracts. To get more of an idea of what it’s like. And maybe I will! 8216;A magic carpet rid...
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Unspeak » Any ethnicity
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Martin Amis, abandonment of reason. September 11, 2007 53 comments. Martin “I am a serious” Amis celebrates the sixth anniversary of 9/11. With a lengthy “ analysis. 8220;, about which the following things might be said:. As richard pointed out. This part, I must say, really does read as though it was written by Craig Brown:. Why did Amis not want to give the etymology of “decorum” directly before slyly translating it into “seemliness”? Simply means “fit” or “proper”, with no nece...On the matter, that A...
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private matters and public things: A Sad Day for Melancholia
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Private matters and public things. A blog about comedy and jokes. Tuesday, January 24, 2012. A Sad Day for Melancholia. Absolutely no Oscar nominations for the Best Film of 2011, starring the persons who deserved Best Actress, Best Supporting Actress and Best Supporting Actor? Sammy Wheelock aka "SW". THEREFORE YOU ARE WRONG. January 25, 2012 at 6:08 AM. January 25, 2012 at 2:52 PM. Subscribe to: Post Comments (Atom). Sammy Wheelock aka "SW". View my complete profile. Go the Fuck to Sleep.
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