Posts by Craig Ranapia
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Muse: TV Review: Good Gods Almighty!, in reply to Steve Parks,
I haven’t seen any of Davies work outside of Doctor Who, so it’s hard to tell. His DW is certainly patchy.
I'll agree to disagree but fair enough, that's an argument without end among Whovians - the SF fandom that make Trekkies look downright sedate. :) And, with all due and sincere respect to James, least said about Diplomatic Immunity soonest mended.
But I would suggest tracking down Queer as Folk -- though I promise you'll never be able to watch Sons of Anarchy's Jax again without blushing. Not actually my favourite of Davies' work (I prefer Bob and Rose and The Second Coming), but it certainly grabbed my attention.
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Can journalism survive the internet?, in reply to Peter Calder,
Does no one else feel even slightly dispirited that there are two responses to this – one from the originator – and, so far, 87 responses to the question of whether one should refer to the area shaved in preparation for a vasectomy as the scrotum or the balls?
First, bloody great interview - as usual, guys.
Um, no – because over Public Address’s life there’s been dozens of posts, and tens of thousands of comments, on new and old media. Also, I could feel glum that out of the 120+ PAR pieces I've done, only a handful have attracted any comments at all but, you know, it doesn't hurt to have your ego put in its place. :)
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Hard News: Book review: 'Wikileaks:…, in reply to giovanni tiso,
+1. Watching QoT slap down Gordon Campbell is awesome (because she is) and depressing - because I expect a lot more from Campbell.
Now, I've got to go have a cry because Geoffrey Robertson has taken a long, stinky dump on whatever respect I used to have for the man.
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Speaker: Medical Journal, Chapter V, in reply to Lucy Stewart,
Not to start the competition thing again, but I understand that the counselling for vasectomies is nothing compared to the hurdles faced by women wanting tubal ligation, because, you know, all women want babies. Always. Without exception.
Try being gay and infertile - double baby-batter guilt trip! Can we just stipulate that it sucks for anyone to be told (however passive-aggressively) that their value lies in a viable reproductive system, and move on?
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Speaker: Medical Journal, Chapter V, in reply to Hilary Stace,
Otherwise unimpressed. Try pregnancy, childbirth, miscarriage, D and C, cone biopsies, smear tests etc etc.
Or you could try being married to a douche bag who refuses to have a vasectomy (or wear a condom during sex) because his orgasm and ego was more important than the health and safety of a woman whose last miscarriage almost killed her.
True story, and thankfully it has a happy ending. The woman concerned kicked that prick to the curb before he (literally) fucked her to death. She's happily re-married to a man who respects her - and himself - enough to take ownership of his own fertility and how it affects others.
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Muse: TV Review: Good Gods Almighty!, in reply to Amy Gale,
@Amy: Crap sticks, of course you didn’t. Sorry, I hit reply to you and didn’t cancel it before pasting in your quote from another comment. Apologies for the munged attribution.
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Muse: TV Review: Good Gods Almighty!, in reply to Amy Gale,
Outside of American Gods, I can’t think of another pop culture appearance of the Norse pantheon off the top of my head.
There was also Roger Langridge’s Thor: The Mighty Avenger – which, naturally, was too sweet-natured, humane and bereft of shrink-wrapped Zeppelin-tits doing ultra-violence not to get cancelled after eight issues. Knuckles The Malevolent Nun would have kicked those fuck bags at Marvel right in the slats, then threaded their shrivelled balls on piano wire to use as rosary beads.
I had to read this interview with Langridge through tears of geek rage. But I have even more sympathy with Dylan Horrocks' decision to run away from the American comics “mainstream" as far as fast as he could.
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Hard News: Book review: 'Wikileaks:…, in reply to Neil Morrison,
But I was a bit reluctant to go there.
I’m very reluctant to go there because of stuff like this. I'm not qualified to diagnose neurotypical cognition in anyone, but the reports of his extradition hearing suggest something much more banal.
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Muse: TV Review: Good Gods Almighty!, in reply to Russell Brown,
You guys are awesome.
Rachel Lang and James Griffin are the Jane Espenson and Russell T. Davies of New Zealand television. Discuss.
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Muse: TV Review: Good Gods Almighty!, in reply to James Griffin,
any white supremacists who would adopt the Johnson brothers as their poster-boys would truly be the most tragic pond scum on that particular cess-pool.
I will be awesomely pissed off if Emmett Skilton and Keisha Castle-Hughes don’t have one tender, awkward, prophecy-and-flat-destroying, white supremacist-enraging sex scene. Extra points if she accidentally pokes out one of Axl’s eyes, and I get to serve up the awful Twitter-sized Whale Rider gags I prepared earlier.
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