Monthly Archives: August 2011
Metaphor Watch: A new series
Metaphor Watch #1: ‘Benefit Dependency’. The first in a new series in the lead-up to the election. Continue reading
Filed under Politics
The fatal saga of Jack Fate (episode two)
The second installment of a short story: Jack had been born into one of those memorable times in history. From his earliest memories, he’d known there was something fucked about the world, the feeling becoming more articulate as he aged. The year he turned 14, the military-industrial-congressional complex or MICC secretly birthed what later came to be widely regarded as the first artificial human intelligence. Continue reading
A Sore Shoulder
AHD visits the Mauritshuis in The Hague with a sore shoulder and wonders whether he’s getting older. Continue reading
Filed under Culture and Society
If I paid 15 dollars to see Horrible Bosses, you can pay 20 to see The Passion of Joan of Arc
For the past month and half, I’ve been doing something entirely new to me. I haven’t become a pleasant and forgiving person, though possibly that will be the next stop on my journey of self-redefinition. No. But once a week … Continue reading
Filed under Arts
The fatal saga of Jack Fate (episode one)
The first installment of a short story. “It wasn’t the first time that Jack had been plunged into the clammy, frozen locker-room smell of a meatboat. He’d worked one about 8 years back. It transported allsorts of lab-grown: poultry, duck, beef, pig, deer, salmon, human, you name it. The boat worked for R*liance – once the pride of Indian capitalists, now a trusty asset of the enormously vertically and horizontally integrated G**gle Inc.” Continue reading
Mental Illness, Normativity, Cricket and Iain O’Brien
AHD discusses Iain O’Brien, cricket, madness and patriarchy in the wake of O’Brien’s admission that he suffers from depression. Continue reading
Filed under Culture and Society
