by Didact | May 23, 2016 | Uncategorized
Damn. I did NOT expect to wake up yesterday and read this headline: Menza was performing with the band OHM at the Baked Potato in Studio City, CA when he reportedly collapsed from a heart attack. […] Mustaine wrote on Twitter: “TELL ME THIS ISN’T TRUE! I...
by Didact | May 22, 2016 | Uncategorized
Commenter Kapios sent over some (as it turns out, old) news that is actually some of the best I’ve seen in months: Unfortunately, the news that Clarkson, Hammond, and May are all going to be on Amazon Prime from now on did not go down well with everyone. It...
by Didact | May 20, 2016 | Uncategorized
Back in 2009, a certain madcap genius wrote and published a certain book which, if you read it today, makes it seem like the author had one hell of a powerful crystal ball sitting in his living room. The funny thing is, when I first read the book, I have to admit...
by Didact | May 19, 2016 | Uncategorized
Gentlemen, suppose for a moment that we were all transported to a parallel dimension, where normal and sensible things did not happen very often. Suppose that, in such a universe, a certain (overhyped) MMA fighter named Ronda Rousey were taken seriously in her claims...
by Didact | May 19, 2016 | Uncategorized
I don’t hold much with mainstream music, but I’ll make an exception for this one song: I actually came across it while binge-watching a truly brilliant crime drama series called Longmire. Now that is a GREAT show. It stars Robert Taylor as a Gary...
by Didact | May 18, 2016 | fat girl jihad, Uncategorized
The Telly’s resident proboscis monkey “feminist comment writer” is back with yet another intellectually diarrhoetic explosion of nonsense- this time concerning the question of whether it’s sexist to tell a woman that she’s tired in...
by Didact | May 18, 2016 | Uncategorized
Classic RAM JAM track:Southern deep-fried rock just doesn’t get much better than that- at least not this side of LYNYRD SKYNYRD, or CREEDENCE. Share this: Share on X (Opens in new window) X Share on Facebook (Opens in new window) Facebook Share on LinkedIn...
by Didact | May 17, 2016 | Uncategorized
Courtesy of some bloke called @BakedAlaska: Well, he’s sure as hell baked on something. And the excessive use of autotune is, to a purist like me, highly irritating; as far as I’m concerned, if I want to listen to some one using autotune to disguise her...
by Didact | May 16, 2016 | Uncategorized
There are certain pairs that just go perfectly together somehow- tea and biscuits (for those of us from civilised parts of the world, where the Godly and lawful sovereignty of Her Majesty the Queen is still acknowledged, of course); ice cream and waffles (if...
by Didact | May 13, 2016 | Uncategorized
mp3 raised an interesting point with respect to the ascension of Trump-Muad’dib: Perhaps I have become very jaded and cynical. I am skeptical about everything. The 90’s were the best period in the US before NAFTA kicked in. Everybody had jobs and people...
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