Category Archives: Culture & Stuff

The Green-Eyed Monster by author Mike Robinson – review by Tom Conrad.

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Question: if a writer continually taps his keyboard in California, could it really cause an avalanche in the sitting-room of a London reader? A seemingly odd question, perhaps, but not if you consider the focus of Mike Robinson’s second book, … Continue reading

Review of Skunk Ape Semester – début novel from author Mike Robinson.

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Skunk Ape Semester By Mike Robinson Published by Solstice Publishing 2012 Available: Amazon Kindle “Doogie Howser MD meets Bramstoker, and they take a road trip to find Bigfoot.” (The Indie Pedant 2012) : Skunk Ape Semester begins with the bizarre … Continue reading

No excuse not to download ebooks – Kindle for the PC.

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‘Download my ebooks.’ ‘But I don’t have a Kindle wotsit.’ ‘You have a PC?’ ‘Erm…’ ‘If you have a PC you can download a Kindle book for the PC.’ ‘Oh… uhm, I don’t have a PC.’ ‘WHAT?!?’ ‘I don’t have … Continue reading

‘What Happened Here’ by Another Costume Party – music review by James Kennedy.

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Describing themselves as alternative indie-rock, Another Costume Party’s 8-track digital album has just been released.  Perhaps one of Brighton’s best-kept secrets, this energetic young band have been compared to Incubus and Muse.  I wouldn’t disagree with this, but their songs … Continue reading

We LOVE/HATE semicolons! The Goodreads’ group sticklers & punctuation rebels should join?

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“Do not use semicolons,” Kurt Vonnegut once said. “They are transvestite hermaphrodites representing absolutely nothing. All they do is show you’ve been to college.”  George Bernard Shaw said: “Not using semicolons is a symptom of mental defectiveness, probably induced by … Continue reading

Social Media, is this feeling of connectedness just an illusion? – words of Juliet Conway.

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It’s happened to all of us: that terrible moment when you get caught in a torrential downpour without an umbrella – or any other kind of protection for that matter. Your hair (which you may or may not have got just … Continue reading

Mark Lanegan, Blues Funeral – album review by Jack Kelly.

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If you haven’t heard apparently the devil makes the best tunes, he also may care and care enough to serve us the pipes of one Mark Lanegan. He begun In the Psyche, a blues hard rock outfit, proceeding then to … Continue reading

The Vaccines, new album ‘Come of Age’ – Review by James Kennedy.

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The Vaccines new album ‘Come of Age’ is released on September 3rd, 18 months after their hugely successful ‘What Did You Expect’. The new album bursts into life with the excellent single ‘No Hope’, a buoyant self-reflective song about coming … Continue reading

Pixar’s Brave: Five Reasons Why Everyone Should Go See It And Love It!

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“If you had the chance to change your fate, would you?” 1. Merida. Merida, Merida, Merida. She is without a doubt the best Disney heroine and has replaced Princess Leia as my favourite princess of all time. Sorry Leia, I … Continue reading

Rumble Fish – a 1984 masterpiece by Francis Ford Coppola.

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“Rusty James can’t live up to his brother’s reputation. His brother can’t live it down.” That’s the tagline for this Francis Ford Coppola masterpiece and if you haven’t already seen Rumble Fish (1984) you should. Ignoring the novelty factor of … Continue reading