Tag Archive | "News"

Congratulations to the Lady

Sunday, April 1, 2012

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Watching the historic news of Aung San Suu Kyi being elected to the Burmese parliament after years of house arrest, again Guy Delisle’s wonderful Burma Chronicles springs to mind; in his pages detailing his long stay in that country I learned that during her incarceration the Burmese people referred to her as “The Lady”. If [...]

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A nice John Hughes tribute from Cliff Chiang

Saturday, August 8, 2009

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Writer and director John Hughes sadly passed away this week at a far too young 59 (BBC story and links). He was responsible for some of the most memorable and era-defining movies of the 80s, particularly for those of us growing up at the time. It doesn’t really matter whether you like them or not [...]

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Harker update….

Saturday, August 8, 2009

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You may have realised by now after 3 glowing reviews (here, here and here), that I’m pretty keen on Harker, the refreshingly good crime procedural produced by Roger Gibson and Vince Danks. The good news is that more and more comic retailers are picking up on this fact and there’s a long list at the [...]

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Death by chocolate

Thursday, July 9, 2009

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The BBC site has news of a horrible and very unusual industrial accident where a man fell into a vat of hot chocolate at work and sadly lost his life. And I know it is rather ghoulish, but it suddenly reminded me of David Yurkovich’s very interesting Death by Chocolate, in which our central character, [...]

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