Mona Lisa descending a staircase

Found this truly devastating short film directed by Joan C. Gratz, in which images of the human face are subtly morphed to communicate the graphic style and emotional content of key 20th century artworks. It won the 1992 Academy Award for best animated short film. The soundtrack is pretty amazing too.

Someone has to do it

I have a friend who has recently found it difficult to write. Since he writes well — and always with sincerity — I don’t believe he has a problem.
I, on the other hand, do.
You see, the difference between my friend and I is that he longs to write for profit (no, I’ll re-phrase that: he [...]

U2 and Green Day “The Saints Are Coming” video

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America’s Lost Highway

LIKE GEORGE W’S
WAR ON TERROR
A MOEBIUS STRIP
IS A TWO
DIMENSIONAL SURFACE
WITH ONLY ONE  FACE.
A MOEBIUS STRIP REPRESENTS INFINITY.
WHEN YOU CUT A MOEBIUS  STRIP (Afghanistan) IN HALF LENGTHWAYS 
YOU GET A DOUBLE MOEBIUS STRIP (Afghanistan + Iraq).
IF YOU CUT IT AGAIN YOU GET A TRIPLE STRIP (Afghanistan + Iraq + Iran) AND SO ON INTO INFINITY.
WHEN YOU RIDE A MOEBIUS STRIP IT’S LIKE GOING BACK TO THE BEGINNING (Vietnam) IN SPACE ON A ONE-DIMENSIONAL SURFACE: YOU MUST CONTINUE AND CONTINUE AND YOU WILL NEVER CROSS YOUR STARTING POINT AGAIN.
LIKE [...]

Baghdad flip-over?

The Tet offensive by the Viet Cong and the NVA in january 1968 was the flip-over point of US involvement in the Vietnam conflict, exposing the hollowness of Pentagon claims that America was in control of the war and precipitating American withdrawal seven years later.
When ABC’s George Stephanopolous asked George Bush to comment on Tom [...]

Americans ask me…

… why I hate America.
I tell them: “I don’t, I think it’s one of the best countries we ever stole.”
(Image courtesy of Violator of the Regime) 

Mirza: “Murder by a thousand cuts”

Yesterday (October 18) the session judge in the case of Mirza Tahir Hussain issued a fresh warrant for the Leeds man’s execution. According to Adiala jail authorities Mirza’s family were informed that he would hang at 06:30 am November 1st, a date which would have coincided with a visit to Pakistan by a member of the [...]

Correction

My attention has recently been drawn to a typo in a piece I posted back in June about former underworld figure and author Paul Ferris.
I would like to make it clear that, to my knowledge, Paul has never been an informer and the piece should have read: ruthless enforcer.
I apologise for the error.