Blood, Blades, and Beyond: Unveiling 12 Brutal Anime Masterpieces of the 80s and 90s and WATCH
In the year 199X, familiar animation was the likes of The Real Ghostbusters and Transformers. Bit of Trap Door and Count Duckula. Morph. A young 10-11-year-old was about to get his first dose first mind-blowing Japanese anime at a friend’s house. No idea where he...
Whilst shoppers are in fear of COVID. Shopkeepers are in fear of masks.
As the Lockdown restrictions come to a sort of end here in BJs Great Britain against a backdrop of Operation Fear and media frenzy circus. The medical-industrial complex ticking away to ensure greater profits. Fears of another lockdown down the line omnipresent.
The hallmarks of a new religion within the new normal.
Often we would see memes and statements, of how 1984 was not meant to be an instruction manual. Little knowing that in 2020, would be Orwell himself raising an eyebrow to the extent of the control grid has manifested in the wake of the COVID-19...
Corona-Quarantined!
From the title, you can likely surmise that I’m currently under home isolation. 14 days under lock and key, thankfully my own lock and key. At least for now. As the world runs out of toilet roll and hand sanitizer. These few walls here will...
Reflecting: Embracing the chaos and 21st Century Wire
First weekend of May for the last 4 years has played host to Alternative View conference at Horwood House arranged and hosted by Ian R Crane. A weekend of considerable quality guests and presentations. Plus 21st Century Wire broadcasting live from the venue, they are...
Peter Pan in Nottingham – Blog / Behind the scenes / making of
It is a conversation with Nottingham living historian Robin Hood, Tony Rotherham that began this journey and the film. Could the Arboretum really be the inspiration of Neverland? JM Barrie once lived very nearby in his tenured youth working for the Nottingham Journal albeit for...
Memory fading…?
Memory fading…? Our own personal worse fear. More than any height or the spider in the bathroom. The sense of existing forever we all feel inside confronted by the stark face of mortality when it starts to break down. Where did I put those keys...
Flying Rod sighting, explainable. Yet coincidence played its part
Leaving work, 16.15 Sunday 30/07/2017 walking in an Easterly direction towards the Noel Street tram stop after a 10 hour shift at work. With the Silver aluminium cladded Pinnacle tower to my right, a tall block of private flats in the centre of the Hyson...
Having a beard does that makes you a terrorist?
BeardLivesMatter! Beards come in all shapes and sizes, as do the people who grow them. The diversity of styles remarkable. The spectrum of cultures across the world value beards differently, indeed like fashions they come and go. For some they are proud symbol of status....
Mothering Sunday and Mother’s Day what do they mean?
Went looking into the origins of Mothers Day and Mothering Sunday this morning. Just a year ago, lost my mother her birthday last year coincided with Mother’s day 14th March 2016. Followed by her death on my birthday of 22nd March 2016. Sinking in a...