Cathy Leaves

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• America's Dad

  "Walz has been an outspoken supporter of abortion rights, one of Democrats’ top issues this election. And unlike President Biden, a Roman Catholic who previousl... Read more

  Posted on 08 August 2024 BOOKS, ENTERTAINMENT, MOVIES, TV & VIDEO

• Reading List: July.

  Non-Fiction: James Belich: The World the Plague Made. The Black Death and the Rise of Europe.Louise Young: Japan's total empire. Manchuria and the culture of... Read more

  Posted on 31 July 2024 BOOKS, ENTERTAINMENT, MOVIES, TV & VIDEO

• Links: 29/7/24

  

  Politics: What a two weeks of politics it has been! The failed assassination attempt on Donald Trump, the Republican convention in which Ohio Senator JD Vance... Read more

  Posted on 29 July 2024 BOOKS, ENTERTAINMENT, MOVIES, TV & VIDEO

• “uncharted Waters in the Days Ahead”

  Joe Biden has withdrawn from his presidential re-election race and endorsed Vice-President Kamala Harris to take his place at the top of their party’s ticket, a... Read more

  Posted on 22 July 2024 BOOKS, ENTERTAINMENT, MOVIES, TV & VIDEO

• ...

  I've been having a difficult time thinking about US politics in the run-up to the election. Just one recurring thought: the greatest weakness of the debate is... Read more

  Posted on 17 July 2024 BOOKS, ENTERTAINMENT, MOVIES, TV & VIDEO

• Reading List: June.

  Non-Fiction: Hampton Sides: The Wide Wide Sea: Imperial Ambition, First Contact and the Fateful Final Voyage of Captain James Cook.Hampton Sides: Ghost Soldiers... Read more

  Posted on 30 June 2024 BOOKS, ENTERTAINMENT, MOVIES, TV & VIDEO

• I Saw the TV Glow

  

  They stop attacking if you don't think about them / The longer you wait, the closer you get to suffocating.Since watching I Saw the TV Glow, I’ve been thinking... Read more

  Posted on 25 June 2024 BOOKS, ENTERTAINMENT, MOVIES, TV & VIDEO

• Links: 12/06/24

  Politics: The UN has added Israel "to the global list of states and armed groups who have committed violations against children". Read more

  Posted on 12 June 2024 BOOKS, ENTERTAINMENT, MOVIES, TV & VIDEO

• Pamyo/Exhuma

  

  2024 feels like an interesting year to think about Godzilla. The big scaly boy has been present for a few years now in the American Monsterverse series of... Read more

  Posted on 11 June 2024 BOOKS, ENTERTAINMENT, MOVIES, TV & VIDEO

• We Are Lady Parts

  

  Stuck in the master’s house with the master’s tools. In the penultimate episode of We Are Lady Parts, it feels like the titular band has finally fulfilled its... Read more

  Posted on 03 June 2024 BOOKS, ENTERTAINMENT, MOVIES, TV & VIDEO

• Reading List: May.

  Non-Fiction: Judith Butler: Antigone's Claim.Caroline Finkel: Osman's Dream: The History of the Ottoman Empire. Adam Shatz: The Rebel's Clinic: The Revolutionar... Read more

  Posted on 31 May 2024 BOOKS, ENTERTAINMENT, MOVIES, TV & VIDEO

• Pretty Little Liars: Original Sin

  

  The original Pretty Little Liars, based on the books by Sara Shepard, ran from 2010 to 2017. On a recent rewatch, what struck me was that it was so easy to trac... Read more

  Posted on 22 May 2024 BOOKS, ENTERTAINMENT, MOVIES, TV & VIDEO

• Random Mixtape - Can't You Come Back?

  

  yeule | anthem for a seventeen year-old girl. mount kimbie | shipwreck. princ€ss | crying. taroug | jewels i. sonic youth | becuz. yeah yeah yeahs | no no no.... Read more

  Posted on 16 May 2024 BOOKS, ENTERTAINMENT, MOVIES, TV & VIDEO

• Saltburn

  

  "I don't think you're a spider, you're a moth. Quiet, harmless, drawn to shiny things, banging up against a window, and begging to get in. Well, you've made you... Read more

  Posted on 02 May 2024 BOOKS, ENTERTAINMENT, MOVIES, TV & VIDEO

• Reading List: April.

  Non-Fiction: David Hunt: Girt. David Hunt: True Girt. David Hunt: Girt Nation.Thomas Keneally: A Commonwealth of Thieves. The Improbable Birth of Australia.... Read more

  Posted on 30 April 2024 BOOKS, ENTERTAINMENT, MOVIES, TV & VIDEO

• Fallout, Or the Least Bad Place to Be After the Apocalypse

  

  Having watched a lot of post-apocalyptic television over the last few years, the thing that keeps popping into my mind again and again is the question of how,... Read more

  Posted on 22 April 2024 BOOKS, ENTERTAINMENT, MOVIES, TV & VIDEO

• Links: 15/4/24

  

  Politics: Back at the end of March, the UN Security Council passed a resolution demanding an immediate ceasefire in Gaza. It was passed with 14 votes in... Read more

  Posted on 14 April 2024 BOOKS, ENTERTAINMENT, MOVIES, TV & VIDEO

• Reading List: March

  

  Non-Fiction: Sara Wheeler: Cherry.Leslie Jamison: Splinters.Lyz Lenz: This American Ex-Wife. Fiction: Elizabeth Hand: Waking the Moon.Nick Fuller Googins: The... Read more

  Posted on 31 March 2024 BOOKS, ENTERTAINMENT, MOVIES, TV & VIDEO

• Random Mixtape - Only Marks and Only Flaws.

  

  warpaint | bees. gossip | tough. sleater-kinney | six mistakes. laura marling | devil's spoke. burial | boy sent from above. four tet | 31 bloom. jlin feat.... Read more

  Posted on 30 March 2024 BOOKS, ENTERTAINMENT, MOVIES, TV & VIDEO

• Drive-Away Dolls

  

  In the 2007 comedy Itty Titty Bitty Committee by Jamie Babbit, a group of feminist activists disappointed by their lack of reach (in a devastating scene, they... Read more

  Posted on 30 March 2024 BOOKS, ENTERTAINMENT, MOVIES, TV & VIDEO