The Silent Age.

Some thoughts about a frankly bloody brilliant game.

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Stereotypes.

I met Damon Albarn backstage at a Blur concert in, what, 2003? It was definitely during the interregnum without Graham, when they were playing with Simon Tong. Dark days. And Damon was very fucked and had a huge and terrifying minder standing behind him. For my part, I failed totally to convey the incredible kindred spirit that I had sensed between us listening to his music. In fact, I didn't manage to say a word, just sort of drooled. Very impressive. Anyway, here's some thoughts on 'Stereotypes' that occurred to me as I was walking around this morning and it came on over my headphones.

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HAIR APPARENT.

I love women. And now, having said it, I want a chance to explain why that's not the benighted sexist crap you might otherwise take it for.

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Who Watches The Watchmen?

I’m preoccupied by the idea of corporations becoming more powerful than nations and turning into the de facto power-brokers to whom governments defer. Here's a few more thoughts on the subject, and where the phenomenon might lead.

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Boggle.

Sitting in a café this morning, waiting for my coffee and pão na chapa, I picked up a magazine called Veja. In the course of browsing through it I stumbled, quite at random, on three details that seemed to me, when taken cumulatively, to pinpoint the ongoing and pretty much blatant dominance of patriarchy within Brazilian society.

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