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Creative Writing > Poetry Poetry: Syd Barrett: 1 of 6

Syd & Roger There's a fine line between genius and insanity. I have erased this line. Oscar Levant Syd was a thunderclap musician, a firestone rocker, A calico leopard in tigers' stripes, A madman crawling around his stage-cage, A granite tipped epidramatic sound god! Syd's pink-purple psychedelic raven haired mane contained...
Entertainment > Television (Other) Rhetorical criticism of the TV show, Desperate Housewives: 1 of 2

Wear a condom before watching these housewives. The first part of this is pure distilled hatred wrapped up in bilious polemical diatribe. The focus of my opprobrium? Desperate Housewives - and in particular its creator Marc Cherry, a man who is a million miles away from the ersatz glamour of his TV show. Marc Cherry is a man...
Politics, News & Issues > Football News & Opinion Comparing the NFL and the Premiership: 1 of 1

McCarthyism in the UK. It is strange how situations end up flipping, cart-wheeling onwards through time; on February 9, 1950, Joe McCarthy said famously: "I have here in my hand a list of 205a list of names that were made known to the Secretary of State as being members of the Communist Party and who nevertheless are still w...
Politics, News & Issues > Sports Archives Thoughts on the 2007 Champions League soccer final: 1 of 1

Police and Thieves AC Milan 1-0 Liverpool I have always had a soft spot for the Rossoneri, my dad and I used to watch Italian football on lazy languid Sundays - and AC were always "our" team. Liverpool occupy a different spot in my body; they play with all the fanfare and panache of two 80 year olds playing a chess game. Liv...
Society & Lifestyle > Immigration Issues Speaking with an accent: What's easy and what's hard?: 6 of 11

Today one of my work colleagues was talking about his favourite film Hot Shots Part Deux , or as he pronounced it "Part Dookes", I had to stop myself from going over there to throttle him, but it started me thinking..... I have lived in the US for over two years and I have never been under any illusions that I am in a foreig...
Sports & Recreation > Sports & Recreation (Other) Comparing football, rugby, and soccer across the globe: 4 of 6

The ugly stepsister of "the Beautiful Game" This article was written after going to "The Big House" a huge college American Football Stadium over 3 times the capacity of Goodison. The match was postponed for about 90 minutes after it started raining because of fears of lightning strikes. I once read that Pele used to snooze ...