by Didact | Mar 13, 2017 | Uncategorized
Before continuing with this post, I have to say that I find myself in the odd position of having to apologise for someone else’s cock-up. The reason why this is the first article since Friday, and the reason why my usual Friday T&A segment is missing (which,...
by Didact | Feb 25, 2017 | Uncategorized
Martin Steene and Kirk Bacharach aren’t exactly household names, even among metalheads, but over the last year or so I have come to greatly appreciate their work in a Danish band called IRON FIRE. The lineup is really a revolving door of musicians with an...
by Didact | Feb 19, 2017 | Uncategorized
President Donald Trump- dear Lord Almighty, I don’t think I’m ever going to get tired of saying those words- held a press conference on Thursday which was… quite the performance. Actually, a correction is in order there. The event was...
by Didact | Feb 17, 2017 | HALO, Uncategorized
HALO WARS was not, by any stretch of anybody’s imagination, the best HALO game ever. It wasn’t even in the top five. It is difficult, after all, to imagine an RTS game making much sense in a universe generally defined by what was originally a...
by Didact | Feb 15, 2017 | Uncategorized
One of the absolute best things about being an Amazon Prime subscriber has GOT to be the fact that TOP GEAR series 2-17 are all available, FOR FREE, as part of one’s subscription. Which allows petrol addicts like me to binge-watch the great heresies of the...
by Didact | Feb 14, 2017 | Uncategorized
Those of you who were introduced to the balls-out batshit insanity that is BABYMETAL probably know this already, but when it comes to music, Japan is actually considerably crazier than you might be led to believe initially. This is especially true when it...
by Didact | Feb 9, 2017 | Uncategorized
I once saw a little-known power metal band called ARCTIC FLAME open up for the granddaddies of the genre, GAMMA RAY, back in, oh, about 2010. By metal standards, the entire band might as well have pensioner passes; every single one of the band members must have been...
by Didact | Feb 7, 2017 | Uncategorized
Being somewhat familiar with the state that is known as “the armpit of America”- that is to say, New Jersey- it would be easy for me to give into the stereotypes and argue that nothing much of any good ever comes from around here. After all, this is the...
by Didact | Feb 5, 2017 | Uncategorized
I came across a reference to this poem in the superb book, The Great Heresies by Hillaire Belloc, which I am currently devouring as fast as I can after (foolishly) putting it down like a quarter of the way through in the middle of last year. In the chapter...
by Didact | Feb 2, 2017 | Uncategorized
Boys, I have some truly sad news: THE GRAND TOUR, that manliest of manly men’s shows, is coming to an end… Say it isn’t so!!! Well, to put it slightly more accurately, the current season of THE GREATEST TV SHOW OF ALL TIME is coming to an...
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