Author Archives: dermot

there’s no tomorrow

Posted on 2012/02/13 by dermot

This has been a long time coming! I began tentatively in 2005, and only completed it a few weeks ago. Finally, it’s fit for public consumption!

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the pledge

Posted on 2011/05/31 by dermot

Was lucky to see these guys – “The Whitest Kids you Know” live in LA in a small venue a few months ago (and absent TV, had never seen them). A treat!

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lego has guts

Posted on 2011/05/27 by dermot

Via the living brick:

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skreevers & scriobh(ers)

Posted on 2011/05/20 by dermot

From “Down and Out in Paris and London” (1933) by George Orwell, in which he writes about the street slang of the homeless in London: About half of these words are in the larger dictionaries. It is interesting to guess … Continue reading →

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wigan pier, the machine

Posted on 2011/05/17 by dermot

From “The Road to Wigan Pier” by George Orwell, 1937: “To begin with, there is the frightful debauchery of taste that has already been effected by a century of mechanisation. This is almost too obvious and too generally admitted to … Continue reading →

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cheer up mr. shimizu!

Posted on 2011/04/15 by dermot

Yes, the job has been hard work the last few weeks. No sane man would want to be President of Tepco during a radiological emergency. So, take off your shoes, sit back with a nice sake, and enjoy a movie!

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china’s ghost cities

Posted on 2011/04/01 by dermot

The noggin, it spins:

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joe bageant

Posted on 2011/03/29 by dermot

First: Joe Bageant, author of “Deer Hunting with Jesus”, passed away. Damned Cancer strikes again. And there’ll be more of that killer, anon. Joe described himself as a redneck socialist, and he was. He was profoundly concerned with the fate … Continue reading →

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do we have plans…

Posted on 2011/03/02 by dermot

…to invade the Middle East? From “Three Days of the Condor”, (1975):

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fission chips

Posted on 2011/02/15 by dermot

This starts slow, then really hits it’s stride in the 1950s: James Howard Kunstler has called Suburbia “the greatest mis-allocation of wealth in the history of the human race”. Well, second greatest, at any rate.

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reagan’s snarl

Posted on 2011/02/07 by dermot

John Dolan shows his mettle again. Essential reading for an understanding of the political condition of modern America, through memories of Ronald’s time as Governor of California: Reagan’s Cheshire Snarl Reagan … managed to destroy everything that was best about … Continue reading →

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dmitri orlov interview

Posted on 2011/02/03 by dermot

Dmitri Orlov, author of “Re-Inventing Collapse” gives a 1/2 hour explanation of why the U.S. in a worse place today than the U.S.S.R. back in the 1980s: Dmitri’s blog: http://cluborlov.blogspot.com/

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you need space

Posted on 2011/02/02 by dermot

A digital orrery. It has two settings: Earth centered (Tychonian), and Sun centered (Copernican). You can select any time to see the positions of the planets, by clicking on the outer ring at the zodiac: The Kepler spacecraft has found … Continue reading →

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