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Framed Documents #084: 1984

BristleKRS wrote 9 months ago: Post 84 gives us this snippet of Newspeak from the 1984 screen version of Orwell’s Nineteen Ei … more →

Tags: The Pictures, Framed Documents, GEORGE ORWELL, Nineteen Eighty-Four, 1984

Framed Documents #060: Reds

BristleKRS wrote 9 months ago: Louise Bryant visits Jack Reed in Reds: PROPERTY is THEFT WALK IN. … more →

Tags: Framed Documents, History, Herstory, Ourstory, Politik, The Pictures, Jack Reed, John Reed, Louise Bryant, property is theft, Reds

Wikipediaphile: Force de frappe2 comments

BristleKRS wrote 1 year ago: Fifteen years ago, I borrowed a book called The Samson Option from a friend called Mike. I’ve … more →

Tags: >> White Coats & Rubber Gloves, History, Herstory, Ourstory, Readings, Inventions + Discoveries, More Wars, Mid Least, Wikipediaphile, My Lai, Force de Frappe

Poděkujte mým jménem kuchaři!

BristleKRS wrote 1 year ago: Been busy the last week or so, redecorating and whatnot here at the BunKRS, but it’s pretty mu … more →

Tags: Food Porn, hungary, Mitteleuropa & Yurp's Exotic East, Poland, Personal, Česká republika, Adriatic, Austria, Bosnia

HonkWatch #082: Jarhead2 comments

BristleKRS wrote 1 year ago: The other day I watched Operation Homecoming, a documentary about a project helping soldiers to reco … more →

Tags: Afghanistan War, Eh? Sure, History, Herstory, Ourstory, HonkWatch, Iraq War, Mid Least, More Wars, The Pictures, Afghanistan

Piss & Vinegar #026: A Cock And Bull Story

BristleKRS wrote 1 year ago: Young Tristram Shandy taking a pre-sash-assisted circumcision slash in the Michael Winterbottom/Fran … more →

Tags: Piss & Vinegar, The Pictures, Tristram Shandy, Michael Winterbottom, Frank Cottrell Boyce, Steve Coogan, A Cock and Bull Story, Laurence Sterne

Frayling at the edges

BristleKRS wrote 1 year ago: The other day I watched a programme in a series called Nightmare: The Birth Of Horror*, in which Chr … more →

Tags: Funnybone, People, The Gogglebox, The Pictures, Christopher Frayling, frankenstein, Mary Shelley

Kentish Ken, The Dark Duke & The Wonder Boy3 comments

BristleKRS wrote 2 years ago: I never realised that infamous rave-busting Kent copper Ken Tappenden had entered showbiz… It … more →

Tags: People, Politik, Funnybone, * Drucqs, Clubs+Gigs+Fests, Cops & Crims, CatKillers, Space Raiders

HonkWatch #009: Sharpe's Rifles

BristleKRS wrote 2 years ago: It’s been a while since the last Motion Picture Motions post, so imagine my delight – th … more →

Tags: History, Herstory, Ourstory, Pulp, The Gogglebox, HonkWatch, Yurp

How to make a home made feature film about the Nazi invasion of Britain (and only take eight years doing it)6 comments

BristleKRS wrote 2 years ago: How It Happened Here is a memoir by Kevin Brownlow, about the making of the extraordinary ‘wha … more →

Tags: History, Herstory, Ourstory, Let’s Make Movies, Readings, The Pictures, Review

Back to Baxendale2 comments

BristleKRS wrote 2 years ago: The opening programme of the BBC4 ‘Comics Britannia’ season – which focused on the … more →

Tags: Personal, Bristol, People, Comics, NEWS STAND, The Gogglebox, West Country, Draughty Corner, the beano

Miners' Strike Redux

BristleKRS wrote 2 years ago: A recent thread on TCTE asked the question “Did the Welsh scab on the Geordies?” in rela … more →

Tags: Politik, History, Herstory, Ourstory, The Gogglebox, Watchings

Comics Britannia season on BBC4!2 comments

BristleKRS wrote 2 years ago: Lumpy let me know that this was coming – it’s a short strand of programmes on BBC4 about … more →

Tags: Comics, The Gogglebox, Draughty Corner

Tuesday's link

BristleKRS wrote 2 years ago: The End is Near — In These Times Brief essay by Kurt Vonnegut on the GW Bush vs JF Kerry US Pr … more →

Tags: People, Politik, Thought for the day


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