CONTAINS SPOILERS FOR BOTH BETTER CALL SAUL AND BREAKING BAD. I WILL BE DISCUSSING BOTH IN DETAIL. Hello everyone, it’s Alex here, and I’ll start by asking a question: have you ever watched something that is critically lauded, heralded as a work of greatness, and just felt completely isolated from […]
Culture
Bulbous Salutations Versus Google Translations – Literary Loitering 129
Sherrington’s New Steampunk Balls – Literary Loitering 128
The cultural anarchists venture forth across pandemic-riddled wastelands in their quest to find something good to read, and along the way they find strange tidings that include tales of someone doing something nice on Twitter, Logjam Day, re-issuing books under their author’s original pen-names, stage performances on Zoom, lectures from […]
Wes Anderson’s Tommy Knockers – Literary Loitering 127
The Liberace Pocket Guide (With Checklist) – Literary Loitering 125
It’s time for another dose of the cultural anarchy that cures all ailments (medically proven by travelling salesmen in the Old West). In the news this week are Waterstone’s “controversial” idea about displaying books, why you shouldn’t microwave books, yet another tell-all book about Donald Trump, things that make you […]
Nietzsche’s Happy Days Fandom – Literary Loitering 124
Literary Loitering returns for another round-up of interesting things that have happened in cultured world, and kicking things off is yet another Twitter gaff. Oh Twitter. How you amuse us. After that it’s the good news that poet Michael Rosen was finally released from hospital after suffering from Covid-19, an […]
She’s All About The Joust – Literary Loitering 121
Attack Of The Light Novel Raccoon – Literary Loitering 120
Targaryen Pterosaurs Versus Raptor Jesus – Literary Loitering 119
After a short hiatus (for several reasons which include an attempted podcast coup-de-tat across The Geek Show), the cultural anarchists are back where they belong. Where that is remains a mystery. Anyway, this time we’ve got the long-awaited continuation of Game of Thrones-watch featuring Grr Martin and flying dinosaurs. In […]
Attack Of The Phallocratic Entryists – Literary Loitering 114
Donald Trump Jr. has apparently been upholding the family’s traditional methods of inflating book sales figures, which we really should have expected so I’m not sure why anyone’s surprised anymore. On the other hand, somebody hiding LGBTQ, gun control, “women’s fiction”, and anti-trump books in a public library in Idaho […]