HARD NEWS 10/04/03 - Looking forward
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Next, please |Apr 10, 2003 09:43
Russell Brown's Hard News
There can be few sights more powerfully symbolic than the toppling of a dictator's statue. And Saddam Hussein's regime
has certainly allowed for that scene to be played out over and over, as his ubiquitous images are torn down by his
former subjects...
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Desert island selection |Apr 09, 2003 11:07
Now playing in the Muse Lounge
Daniel Clowes has observed that female teenagers are licensed to be emotional in a way that other people aren't. He made
this point extremely well in an interview which my friend Ian found in a remaindered magazine, kept, and forwarded to me
by surface mail. In turn I read it, noted the passage, tore the interview out and filed it for future reference. I don't
know where it is now. But trust me, Clowes was ...
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HARD NEWS 09/04/03 - Like nobody really died
My customary ranting, and a superbly-turned post from Debra. You should read it.
Cheers,
RB
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Like nobody really died |Apr 09, 2003 10:39
Russell Brown's Hard News
"We share sacrifices. We share grief. We pray for those families who mourn the loss of life; American families, British
families ?" George W. Bush let the sentence hang in the air. I genuinely thought he was about to say "Iraqi families".
It would have been a decent and thoughtful thing to do. But he didn't...
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3 Michaels and a Leonard on Fear |Apr 08, 2003 16:13
Debra Daley's astral plane
When future journalists writing for magazines and weekend supplements pin an epithet on this decade, I'm betting a high
hand to nothing that they'll sum up this zeitgeist along the lines of "The Age of Anxiety". After all, the millennium
started off with a lot of scarifying about the Y2K bug and then, while everyone was still distracted by the fakery and
broken promises of technology, terrorism exploded into previously safe havens of western consciousness ?
ENDS