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Behind the Screens
One afternoon, Father Power pointed up at a red light to the left of the altar and said that when that light was glowing, God was in the house – it was powered by Him. I looked up at it, a red glowing bulb in an ornate brass cage, and asked why – if God…
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Get Pumpt
The backlash against heat pumps had only just started last time I talked about environmental politics here. We’re now so high on the fumes of the whole saga that it’s tempting to cheer when one businessman pops up to tell another one they’re talking pish. Having spent a bit of time considering the question of…
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The Matrix Resurrections, revisited!
The problem with the Matrix movies has always been that you can’t live in the future. This might be true on a philosophical level but in cinematic terms there is a more immediate problem: the future world of the films has never looked or sounded like a destination. Resurrections tries to rectify that, filling the desert of…
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Footwork #1
On Saturday 12th August I made a mistake: I crossed the river Clyde when there was an international cycling tournament in town. I’d had some experience of this the week before, when I’d skipped round heras fencing and made my way to Buchanan bus station in the early hours of the morning on my way…
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A Tornado in My House
The fourth in a series of posts about Six Feet Under Previously: Meanwhile, in the mid ’90s: In my last post on this subject I made a passing reference to Six Feet Under being weird about bisexuality. This is a theme that really flares up in the third season, when Claire goes to art school…
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Run That Back #2
Still alive, still linkblogging, still avoiding the attentions of a disapproving god!
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