December 2010
83 posts
WatchJohn & Jehn: I Can See You
WatchJohn & Jehn: 20L07
WatchJohn & Jehn: Oh My Love
Because I like making new, slightly odd, slightly unsettling musical discoveries on the last day of the year. And they’re French, too.
“I have a nuclear option; it’s like fighting a war. They know I have...”
– Vince Cable: I could end coalition
Well, Vince, what the hell are you waiting for? Do it. Please.
I Like Trains: Last Christmas - I know, I know, a...
Retail giants face taxing day of Uncut action →
One of the few reports about today’s day of action against corporate tax dodgers, being staged by UK Uncut on high streets up and down the country. Mostly, unfortunately, it seems like another case of virtual media blackout.
WatchCage Against The Machine perform John Cage’s 4’33” in a bid for the Christmas Number One slot.
See also: What John Cage’s silent symphony really means
Madder Rose: Swim - Early ’90s sometime? I...
Top 10 Cases Of Human Cannibalism →
Informative. I feel peckish.
Guaranteed to be the male fashion accessory for 2011 - will someone buy me a ‘combat codpiece’ for Christmas, please?
“The post-1945 settlement of the welfare state is about to be permanently...”
– Phil Shiner: If you want to protest, prepare to be kettled
Oh, and ...
… it was never my plan to turn Unreliably Witnessed into some kind of political rant link-log. Really, it wasn’t. While I previously posted occasional political content, I preferred the mix of images, music, fonts (!), design, humour, etc that still sometimes manages to appear on this tumblr. Ultimately, however, it’s difficult to avoid the various horrors that this supposedly...
The press coverage of Jody McIntyre suggests that... →
And here is a very good summary of the dehumanising changes to Disability Living Allowance.
Warning: this is a Daily Mail link →
I felt I should give you fair notice, just in case you prefer to keep your internet browser free of the Daily Mail’s usual rampant bigotry and hate-filled invective. But the story that the above link takes you to - as UK Uncut has already pointed out this morning - is quite remarkable. Even the staunchly right-wing Mail is now pointing out the injustice of billion-pound business dodging...
WatchPerformance/conceptual art by Nate Hill. I want Death Bear to come to the UK. Now.
“The student protesters of this winter of discontent are my heroes. Instead of...”
– Billy Bragg
We are Generation Wiki →
Not embedded, because for some reason my tumblr has chosen to break animated GIFs so they don’t work (gah), here’s a fantastic flick through of Edward Gorey’s The Gashlycrumb Tinies. Oh, how I love peculiarly grisly manners of death. [via that’s my name, don’t wear it out]
