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The legendary
Ken Campbell has died. Interested in
everything, apparantly. Just as excited to visit
Damanhur as he was to go to
CERN, just down the road. Fluent in Bislama, the creole of Vanuatu, into which he translated
Macbeth. Founder of the Science Fiction Theatre of Liverpool, which performed epic productions of
The Warp,
Illuminatus! and
The Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy. Not quite Doctor Who (he was beaten to the role by former protogé Sylvester McCoy). A fount of knowledge on the theatre, comedy, Fortean strangeness and science and anything else you care to mention, all of which he spun together with extensive flights of imagination into glorious, hilarious one-man shows. Totally irreplaceable, and devastating loss.
posted to MetaFilter by Grangousier
at 1:35 PM on September 1, 2008
(16 comments)
In some ways, Gary McKinnon is indeed a complete idiot. Well, he is a likable and intelligent geeky man who did many, many idiotic things. What he is not, his friends and supporters reckon, is someone who deserves extradition and
70 years in an American jail.
posted to MetaFilter by Grangousier
at 3:22 AM on July 9, 2005
(59 comments)
The following sing I a book.
a book of art. of mind art as that which he hid reveal I.
Tom Phillips made his first
Humument pages in 1966 and continues to make them. He drew new meanings out of a forgotten Victorian novel -
A Human Document by
W.H. Mallock - by painting over or otherwise obscuring most of the words on the page, leaving pithy fragments. The result is wonderfully allusive, poetic and occasionally wise as well as beautiful to look at. He's used it to comment on Dante's Inferno and
Joyce's Ullysses, made a sort of opera out of it, and it's
dead postmodern to boot.
posted to MetaFilter by Grangousier
at 3:00 PM on September 17, 2002
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"Comedy is dead, but
Some of the Corpse Are Amusing".
Earlier today, SOTCAA themselves posted a message on their forum saying that the site would be pulled "in a few weeks". Well worth a visit before it is. (more inside)
posted to MetaFilter by Grangousier
at 10:41 AM on August 3, 2001
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Last night's Brass Eye special was mysteriously pulled from the schedules, seemingly because it concerned "an army of paedophiles". Apparantly,
this is not the case
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at 9:46 AM on July 6, 2001
(15 comments)
I wanna be your dog.
So people are flocking to the opportunity to appear in an "and finally" spot on the news. Nowt so queer as folk, as they say up north.
But just because it gets people's attention, does that mean it's going to convey any useful information? Perhaps if dog-mistreaters were sentenced to being treated like a stray...
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at 1:45 AM on June 7, 2001
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