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A Bottom Line Where Human Life Has No Value At All (Kerblam!)
“Union busting is cool.” It’s November 18th, 2018. Ariana Grande remains at number one with “Thank U, Next.” Lady Gaga & Bradley Cooper, Little Mix ft. Nicki Minaj, Halsey, and Freya Ridings also...
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Just a quick fly-by to say that IDSG is back. Here’s the brand new mainline public episode, on The Collapse of the National Justice Party. And here’s a ‘news brief’ minisode, possibly the first of many...
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Qui Quae Quod (The Witchfinders)
Sexless bondage is one of the lesser remarked upon pieces of Saward-era nostalgia in the Chibnall era It’s November 25th, 2018. Ariana Grande continues to be on top of a top ten chart that is basically...
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With You Behind The Mirrors (It Takes You Away)
It can’t even ride a fucking bike It’s December 2nd, 2018. Ariana Grande continues her dominion over the charts. The rest of the top ten simply shuffles, save for the entrance of Ava Max to the top...
View ArticlePop Could Never Save Us! Series Two PREMIERE. Taylor’s Eras…
https://podbay.fm/p/pop-could-never-save-us/e/1709064761 Part 1 https://podcasts.apple.com/gb/podcast/eras-tour-special-part-2/id1665362470?i=1000647973586 Part 2 The epic return of the only popcast...
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Everything Tastes Wrong (The Battle of Rintrah and Uveth)
I think this is called “symbolism” It’s December 9th, 2018. “Thank U Next” hasn’t gone anywhere. Mark Ronson ft. Miley Cyrus, James Arthur & Anne Marie, Dalton Harris ft. James Arthur, and Mariah...
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Eating Their Own Relatives (Resolution)
The one thing Chibnall learned from the Moffat era: don’t make fat Daleks. It’s January 1st, 2019. Ava Max is at number one with “Sweet But Psycho,” with Wham, Mariah Carey, the Pogues featuring Kirsty...
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The Demon Hero
Penn and I made a six page comic featuring a non-trademark infringing cartoon mouse character! But before we get to that, some business announcements. First, Whittaker-era TARDIS Eruditorum will be...
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Review: Cuckoo by Gretchen Felker-Martin
. Patrons had access to this two weeks ago. For just $5 a month, you could be as cool as them. Throughout Cuckoo, characters talk about helping each other. This starts from the very first page, a...
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Retrospective: The Passion of the Christ
Jesus of Nazareth falls to his knees, drops of blood pouring down his face. He is on his knees in Gethsemane. He is on his knees as the Romans tear out chunks of his flesh with a cat o’ nine tails....
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The Longful Garden
. You ever just have a name for something sitting around for years and then suddenly you’re holding a field recorder up to the drain pipe up the street from your house? … Anyway, The Longful Garden is...
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Constellation Review
Some nine years ago I wrote an essay about Peter Harness, then primarily known as a Doctor Who writer, perhaps most notable for writing Kill the Moon, a story for which I wrote a rave review that was,...
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Review: Civil War
If Civil War is Alex Garland’s last movie as a solo director, his body of work is going to last a while. There are images in Civil War that will haunt me for years. And it’s not always a haunting I’ll...
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Counter-Review: Civil War
. As with most things I find myself liking while everyone else is at best, like my daughter, conflicted, I find myself starting from what the question of what the film thinks it’s doing. The beginning...
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Anarcho-Trumpism: A Thesis
If you’re one of the Doctor Who nerds this first bit is aimed for, this is really funny in context. And if you’re not, just scroll down a bit. Hello! A fun coda to what’s probably my favorite essay in...
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Space Babies Review
Back in college, Alex used to have a sign on his dorm room door that read BABIES: FUN TO MAKE AND FUN TO EAT. And who am I to disagree? First off, a note on how I did these, given the oddness of the...
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The Devil’s Chord Review
They should have had Jinkx Monsoon pretending to be Bonnie Langford. Now that’s something I haven’t seen before. What is perhaps most impressive is the way in which it drops the hammer and simply never...
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Boom Review
Portrait of the reviewer having a weird fuckin’ day at work. The classics are classics for a reason, and there’s little more classic than letting Moffat run rampant on some formalist bullshit. The...
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73 Yards Review
The real tragedy of this being Doctor-lite is that we get so little of Gatwa’s best fit of the season. There’s a lot here that’s fantastic. The first eighteen minutes—the bit where we burn through the...
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Review: Kingdom of the Planet of the Apes
Kingdom of the Planet of the Apes has the unenviable task of following up Hollywood’s finest blockbuster series since The Lord of the Rings. The Caesar trilogy is a needlessly moving, unsettling,...
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