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Category Archives: culture
On Dawkins and boorishness
Also in The Guardian, Charlie Brooker who is usually so spot on, gets caught up in the angry, self regarding world of Richard Dawkins who is on TV this week extolling the virtues of his own ideas Charles Darwin.
Darwin’s theory of evolution was simple, beautiful, majestic and awe-inspiring. But because it contradicts the allegorical babblings of a bunch of made-up old books, it’s been under attack since day one. That’s just tough luck for Darwin. If the Bible had contained a passage that claimed gravity is caused by God pulling objects toward the ground with magic invisible threads, we’d still be debating Newton with idiots too.
And that’s the problem right there. I don’t know why anyone would be looking to the Bible for any view on an issue of science, and by the same token why we should consider a scientist to have any authority on any subject outside his chosen field of study. Continue reading
Category culture, Uncategorized
Tags faith
Jonathan Berstein on Generation Kill
Like The Wire, Generation Kill is unstinting in its support of the men on the front line. Like The Wire, this series deplores the bureaucracy that stops the marines doing their job effectively and disdains the decision-makers who abandon them… Continue reading
Category culture
Tags david simon
Kevin Kelly on paying for things we can get for free
People buy stuff, but what we all crave are relationships. Payment is an elemental type of relationship. Very primitive, but real. Thank God that the world isn’t full of people who think as little and talk as much as Mike… Continue reading
Category culture
The music industry needs more people like Mike Batt talking for them
If you could download a loaf of bread free you would. But you can’t, thank God, because otherwise bakers would cease to exist and there would be no bread to download. Then we’d all be dead, and good riddance to… Continue reading
Verbosity is no substitute for good manners.
Giles Coren vs The Sunday Times Sub-Editors part 2
Category culture
the freqs come out at nite
What with secret theo gigs and those freaky aint it black dudes, there seem to be loads of good parties on at the moment. One that deserves special mention is manny’s celebration of all things 808, nitefreq. There’s a great… Continue reading
Category culture
A rest from The Wire
What’s with the Guardian’s relentless coverage of the final season, I’m getting dangerously close to Wire overload. I need to chill-ax and come back fresh in a year or so, start from scratch, take my time. When I do, I’ll… Continue reading
George Monbiot vs Channel 4
Whatever happened to the Channel 4 I used to love? More often than not these days, it feels like I’m watching a series of 5 minute ‘filler items’ from daytime TV, extended into morbidly brainless 30 minute chunks. The fact… Continue reading
Category culture
Hidden Depths
Talking of Theo, San Miguel have been in touch and apparently he’ll be playing next week as part of their excellent ‘Hidden Depths‘ season of events. The ‘secretsundaze‘ hosted night takes place at the T bar, Shoreditch and is free… Continue reading
Category culture
Tags theo parrish
Theo Parrish is an angry man.
Underground dance music, which is not controlled by the industry directly, is where we exist, but also have a lot of control, because to get music out we have to start our own labels usually. But the copying goes on… Continue reading