In a world where changing your appearance is as simple and as dispassionate as taking your “Stack”, which houses the essence of who you are, and placing it into another “sleeve” or body, cultivating and retaining a sense of self is a very real and vital thing. Especially if you Continue Reading
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The COVID-19 sitcom you’ve been waiting for: Staying at Home
COVID-19 is really making a mess of our world at the moment. One of the many consequences of its unceasing trampling of normalcy are the lockdowns which have taken place in countries as diverse as India, France and the UK, forcing people used to a life of restaurants, farmers’ markets Continue Reading
Weekday pop art: When pop culture and reality seamlessly merge
SNAPSHOTI visit film locations and re-create scenes through the use of a camera & some imagination! …Film has been a huge part of my life since I was small and the passion has only increased as I’ve grown. I’ve always had a thirst for adventure and creativity so it was Continue Reading
A Douglas Adams trio of TV shows: Upload, The Midnight Gospel, Never Have I Ever, What We Do in the Shadows (s2), Nailed It! (s4)
COVID-19 is a nasty piece of work and as such does not have a lot of redeeming features and precious few silver linings. One of the few things it does have in its favour is that it offers the chance, with cinema offerings gutted down to just about zero and Continue Reading
Weekend pop art: It’s not a yolk – cute cartoon characters end up on eggs
SNAPSHOTJapanese mom Etoni Mama turns fried and boiled eggs into adorable cartoon characters. Etoni Mama is also a culinary artist in her own right and a published author. The title is “Saiji-ki Foods For Children” This book is full of recipes that offer a fun and delicious take on seasonal Continue Reading
COVID-19 strikes again – #Eurovision 2020 has been cancelled
To my great sorrow, COVID-19 has claimed yet another event – the Eurovision Song Contest 2020. It is nothing compared to the suffering it has caused countless people worldwide and you could well argue it’s cancellation is a minor thing in the grand scheme of things. But it’s something I Continue Reading
Star Trek: Picard review: “Nepenthe” and “Broken Pieces” (S1, E7 & E8)
SPOILERS AHEAD … AND A HEADY MIX OF NOSTALGIA AND THE FUTURE … JUST LEAVE YOUR SYNTH AT HOME OKAY? Your mobile phone is a threat to the galaxy. Well, that’s not strictly speaking true but if it were to suddenly to develop sentience and start talking back to you Continue Reading
Still feeling Insecure? Of course you are! (season 4 trailer + poster)
SNAPSHOTAside from the seemingly inevitable conflict between Issa and Condola, Issa and Molly’s relationship could be put to the test in Season 4. Never have the two really dated men from the same circle, and they’ve both kept those parts of their lives relatively separate from their friendship with each Continue Reading
That Was Your Life: The Good Place final season review
SNAPSHOTThe series focuses on Eleanor Shellstrop (Kristen Bell), a deceased young woman who wakes up in the afterlife and is welcomed by Michael (Ted Danson) to the “Good Place” in reward for her righteous life; however, she eventually discovers that Michael’s “Good Place” is a hoax, and she is actually in the “Bad Place”, Continue Reading
Weekend pop art: The anatomically correct fun of “Cartoon Fossils”
You’ve no doubt heard people shopping for a home, or the real estate agents tryiong to sell them one, say that a house has “got good bones”. It’s the ultimate compliment and means that while house may look ill-kempt or unloved, that it’s basically got the makings of sound and Continue Reading