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A weekly strip by Fraser Geesin

The book Dream Date by Tim Leopard and Fraser Geesin is available from Running Water Press or from Amazon.

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It’s a slow one for us, so we have joined forces like Voltron, whatever Voltron is (I know what Voltron is because I bought a very cheap Voltron DVD the other week. It was a ripoff – Voltron is a load of old shit). This could get more like one of those old Sugarhill Gang tracks that goes on for ever actually, on eof those ones where they’re just talking about their socks, what they had for dinner, and, most rivetingly, about how their neighbourhood has got, like, a really cool bridge or some shit like that…

These are the comics that have hit us in our brainless brains this week.

A weekly strip by Fraser Geesin

The book Dream Date by Tim Leopard and Fraser Geesin is available from Running Water Press or from Amazon.

• If you spend all day on your hands and knees with no one to talk to then a good podcast can really perk you up.  In particularly dire situations an amusing man may even save your life.   Paul Foot has amused me greatly of late since his Resonance FM show has been made available in podcast form.  His mode of address is charming, like he’s being constantly distracted by his own head until a gush of comedy concept pours fourth.  He look a bit like a Roxy era Brian Eno too! (gl)

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  Not pranksters. Serious men

  After watching the Coen’s latest film A Serious Man, I found myself dwelling upon the fact that many, many film critics simply aren’t up to doing their job. Far from being the architects of empty cathedrals of meaning – a description of their work that is heavily implied if not outright stated in far too many positive and negative reviews – the Coen’s movies are and perhaps always have been very concerned with tackling deep and important issues. The fact that there are paid critics out there who don’t understand that A Serious Man, amongst other worthwhile things, poses difficult questions, troubles me immensely, but thankfully notable pundit Matt Zoller Seitz isn’t amongst them. Even better, he’s written an essay (one of ten on the best film makers of the decade) that attempts to undermine the popular and specious view outlined above. Personally I don’t think his analysis goes deep enough in that he seems to miss the point that much of the Coen’s work is explicitly philosophical – I doubt that anyone who knows anything about the studies of epistemology and intentionality would fail to see that A Serious Man has Serious things to say on those subjects. (z)

• Sesame Street + Phillip Glass + the geometry of circles = wonderful (z)

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Added bonus!  Why don’t you head on over to my blog and check out ‘How To Make a Terminus’ a special behind the scenes look at how the Beast’s creative juices flow…

What’s that, crow-like Carnevale mask? There’re going to follow a plural of what?

Stolen from here, btw, in the interests of credit due. Creepy fucking buddy. Fifteen apparitions have I seen/The worst a coat on a coat-hanger

A weekly strip by Fraser Geesin

The book Dream Date by Tim Leopard and Fraser Geesin is available from Running Water Press or from Amazon.