Posts by Craig Ranapia
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OnPoint: Election 2011: GO!, in reply to recordari,
Step Three: Buy a black hat.
Only if you're going to shout me a trip to London, and stand the price of one of these. If it's good enough for Mr Steed...
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Muse: TV Review: Good Gods Almighty!, in reply to Russell Brown,
Bet Gin Wigmore’s pleased nobody saw that coming…
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Hard News: Only what we would expect a…, in reply to dyan campbell,
Tony Veitch is not a journalist who posed questions to which Key was required to respond. He one of the hosts of a tv show that has a tacky, sadly out of date format.
And at the risk of throwing petrol on a guttering fire, when it comes to "tacky, sadly out of date formats" I cringed a lot every time Clark demeaned herself to go for the women's magazine demographic. Which, to be fair, she's far from the first politician to go down that PR road to lady-hating hell.
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Muse: TV Review: Good Gods Almighty!, in reply to F. Beazley,
The fact that they were working together in the first place suggests they think alike.
Certainly not - you could argue, and others have, that they both come out of a very English tradition of taking your heroes seriously enough not to take them seriously at all.
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Muse: TV Review: Good Gods Almighty!, in reply to Leopold,
PS – Why this fixation in the present-day West for Norse gods, anyway?
I hope James will drop by and speak for himself, but like most writers his own background (he's a real life Norsewood God) is the foundation of his work. But, of course, there are plenty of creatives whose mythopoetic kitty isn't quite so Euorcentric. Nalo Hopkinson's science fiction is wonderful, and her Jamacian heritage puts a deliciously Afro-Futurist spin on some very tired tropes.
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Muse: TV Review: Good Gods Almighty!, in reply to BenWilson,
It's bordering on spoof, but it's clearly going to be a social drama/commentary rather than fantasy escapism.
Does it have to be an either/or deal, though? I always liked Neil Gaiman's take on the idea of godhood in The Sandman and his novel American Gods: We take our gods with us - they change, wax and wane as we do. And what happens to a God when nobody believes in him any more?
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Hard News: Book review: 'Wikileaks:…, in reply to Russell Brown,
Turns out there's quite a story there. We'll cover it in the show.
Let's just hope we're not being primed for another Operation Leaf...
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Hard News: "Orderly transition" in #Egypt, in reply to recordari,
’nuff said.
Well, I guess Clinton could have said “we’re not going to give Mubarack or his supporters a pretext to brand the opposition American agents” – though that may be a tad counterproductive.
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Hard News: Because it's about time we…, in reply to Jackie Clark,
They went for Bill Nighy, after I told them about Craig’s assessment of it. Well, I didn’t give a detailed one, I just said he said it was crap. That was enough for them.
Oooh, the power... :)
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OnPoint: Election 2011: GO!, in reply to giovanni tiso,
Surely they ought to EMPLOY competent and friendly adults.
I'd say that about a lot of commercial entities (yes, I am looking at a certain supermarket that uses The Walking Dead's pilot for staff training), but there you go and here we are. :)
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