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The Pete Hegseth Story, Episode 241, 'A Crisis of Confidence':   Happy Easter!

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So, JD Vance thinks that aliens are actually demons, rather than beings from other worlds.  Really?  I mean, is that the best you've got, JD?  With all the shit going down in the world today, (most of it perpetrated by a US administration of which he is part), that's what he spends his time worrying about?  Now, at this point, I could go off into a diatribe about how

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  Another episode of 'After Hours', my new podcast.   I have to admit that it isn't as polished as I'd hoped, not to mention the fact that it should have seen the light of day at least a week ago, unfortunately, however, everything got delayed by events beyond my control culminating in a family bereavement.  I'm not going to go into further detail, but it all blew off

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At first I put it down to the clocks having gone forward over the weekend, but no, it turned out that I wasn't sleep addled and misreading the breaking news I had woken up to - the world it seems really has gone mad.  I mean, this morning was already confusing enough as it was - being the start of the Easter break, it meant that the early morning sounds I woke up to didn't sound right. 

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I'm afraid that, right now, I'm running on empty.  I have stuff going on in the real world I have to deal with, so I'm pretty much out of creative inspiration, even if I had time to develop any ideas.  So, rather than skip today's post entirely, I dug this out of an old memory stick - it was the script for what was, essentially, a precursor to my current podcasts, (I actually re-used

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People worry about AI 'hallucinating' stuff and fabricating completely untrue information, yet we currently have a US president who is apparently hallucinating entire 'peace negotiations' with Iran.  Where are these negotiations taking place, through what channels and who is involved, (bearing in mind that the Trump administration keeps insisting that they've decimated Iran's leadership, it

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Cannibalism - is that going to be next racist trope peddled by extreme right and their enablers in the British press?  Obviously, they might have missed the boat on that, as cannibalism was always - wrongly - associated with 'darkest' Africa.  Well into the seventies: I well recall seeing as a child all those cartoons in newspapers and comedy sketches on TV involving hapless white

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Back in the US' bicentennial year, Universal Pictures decided to contribute to the celebrations with a pair of biopics of some of its best remembered stars.  Both Gable and Lombard (1976) and WC Fields and Me (1976) were critically panned and failed to find audiences.  Both have subsequently become very difficult to see.   The WC Fields movie for instance, I recall turning up

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When, oh when, are large sections of Britain's media going to stop making excuses for Nigel Fartage?  Remember when all those people he went to school with came forward with their stories of how he had racially abused them and taunted others with anti-Semitic taunts?  What was the response of  the likes of the Daily Hate?  'Oh well, he was young and didn't know what he was

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Despite being made as late as 1956, when nuclear bombs, mutants created by radiation and flying saucers were all the rage for B-movie topics, The Black Sleep is very traditional horror film, harking back to the Universal, or even Monogram, features of the forties.  Which shouldn't be surprising, as it is effectively a vehicle for a number of horror stars from that era and is directed by

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Another one of those odd incidents of synchronicity we sometimes encounter:  I just started one of my periodic re-rereadings of favourite early Len Deighton novels last night and I wake up today to the news that he had died.  Now, there are those who would try to read something into this coincidence, prattling on about how 'the Universe' or 'fate' was trying to tell me something. 

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As with all the best bad z-grade movies, a degree of confusion surrounds The Revenge of Dr X (1970).  For one thing, I sat down to watch this thinking that it had been made in the Philippines.  After all, not only did the streaming channel where I watch it list it as such, but the opening credits seemed to confirm this, crediting direction to Eddie Romero, a prolific producer and

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Could we be about to see a renaissance of traditional porno mags?  I only ask because it seems to me that it is getting ever more difficult to just casually browse porn online, what with all these dodgy age checks and requests for ever-increasing amounts of personal information for verification.  Which is a pity, as online porn was one of the great technological innovations brought to

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It seems that nowadays nobody believes anything until they've seen it on TV.  Not as a news item, that is, but seen it dramatised with familiar actors playing all of the main participants.  Take the Post Office scandal, for instance, when all those sub-postmasters were wrongly accused of stealing from the Post Office - some even going to jail - due to a fault with an IT system. 

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Another of those days where I'm left without a clue what to post about.  I'm sure that, yesterday, I had a vague idea as to what I was going to say today, but I've had a lot of distractions since then.  I'll doubtless remember at some point and it will become a future post.  But for now, I'm contemplating the fact that my back aches - I've had a niggling back injury for a couple of

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It's always tempting to think that all of the developments we see around us, be they in society, technology or politics, for instance, are brand new and unique to our current age.  Yet, surprisingly often, we are jolted by some artefact from the past which reminds us that, in truth, there is nothing new under the sun.  Quite recently, for example, I finally watched the Peter

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So, just what is the 'Hamasutra'?  It's a word that sprang into my mind the other day for no good reason.  As they sometimes do.  The 'Hamas' bit suggests a connection to the militant Palestinian group of the same name.  You know, the one that is frequently dismissed by politicians as being a terrorist group, yet still enjoys the support of Palestinians in Gaza, despite the

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The right-wing press in this country really can't help themselves, can they?  If there's any opportunity, no matter how ill advised, to attack a Labour government, they'll seize upon it.  Witness their recent gleeful reporting on Trump's criticisms of Starmer for having actually shown a bit of backbone with regard to Iran - all trumpeted in huge headlines.  Yet, in this instance,

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For fuck's sake!  Right in the middle of trying to watch something via my Roku box, I suddenly lost my internet connection!  Checking my router, there was clearly no broadband connection. Which meant, of course, that I couldn't use the broadband I pay for (and have just been billed another month for) to check the status of my ISP and find out what the fuck was going on.  I had to

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The title of this Roger Corman produced and directed AIP cheapie just about sums the movie up, although, to be fair, the sea serpent is the least of their worries, with most of the film's action centring on their conflict with the Grimaults, a savage tribe who take them prisoner.  The Saga of the Viking Women and Their Voyage to the Waters of the Great Sea Serpent, to give the film its full

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The past couple of days have proven somewhat stressful for me, for various reasons, so I'm following yesterday's example and being lazy with my posting today.  This is a quick video of the recent Let's Glow event held here in Crapchester every February.  This only covers the sections of the event in my local park, (which, to be fair, constitutes the main part of the light trail,

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Another podcast.  This one, unlike the last couple I plugged here, is composed of entirely new material and is, in effect, the pilot for a series of shows with a similar format, replacing the old, eponymous, podcast I used to do for Onsug.  In common with those other recent podcasts, not to mention the short Nothing is Real series I also recorded for Onsug, I don't, personally feature

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You know, the downside of the new series of Junk and Disorderly being on Blaze is that it means that I have to put up with Blaze's promotions for the rest of their whacked out programming in the commercial breaks.  I remember that, once upon a time, Blaze used to be full of stuff like Junk and Disorderly and  while some vestiges of it still remain, most of their schedule these days

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There's a lot of hysteria surrounding AI.  I mean, hardly a day goes by without my seeing a headline somewhere asking whether some proprietary AI has become 'self aware' or 'sentient'.  (The answer is always 'no', in spite of the best efforts of assorted panic-mongers and IT nerds to convince us otherwise, there is no evidence that any current AI system does anything other than process

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So, Trump's latest ploy to distract from the Epstein files is to announce that he's going to order the relevant US departments to publicly reveal what they know about aliens.  Or is it just a ploy?  Is he hoping that in these 'Alien Files' there will be documents, better still photos, implicating previous presidents, preferably Democrats, in having sexual relations with underage aliens.

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