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  • WolfmanOz at the Movies #44

    Demonic Possession It’s now 49 years ago that William Friedkin’s supernatural horror classic The Exorcist was first released (actually at Xmas in 1973). The film is based on the novel by William Peter Blatty, which it follows very closely in depicting the demonic possession of a young girl and her mother’s attempt to rescue her through…

  • US 2022 Mid-Terms Thread

    The latest indication of national sentiment:

  • Meme of the Day #62

  • Open Thread – Tues 8 Nov 2022

    Suicide of Saul, Pieter Bruegel, 1562

  • A tangled web of electric make-believe

    I looked it up. Apparently, pylons are needed each 75 to 100 metres to support high-voltage overhead transmission lines. In England and Wales there are 7000 kms of high voltage overhead transmission lines and 90,000 pylons. Roughly one pylon per 80 metres. Seems about right. I’ll use this number. Peter Dutton referred in Parliament to…

  • Let’s Lift Wind Literacy

    Reading literacy appears to be in decline and that is causing concern but spare a thought for the prevalence of “wind illiteracy.” This means lack of awareness of the wind supply, especially at the continental scale. Wind illiteracy has enabled the biggest peacetime policy blunder in our history, that is, connecting intermittent energy sources from…

  • Rabz’ Radio Show November 2022: Movie Soundtracks

    The use of music in movies generally takes two forms – building or essaying the mood of a particular scene, (“the score”) or the use of a particular song (or theme) to emphasise a scene’s context. I’ve only got about four movie soundtracks in my collection that I’m aware of – they include: Betty Bleu…

  • Mater’s Musings #62: “Real-life skills” indeed

    Do the fees include the super glue, or is that extra?Is it issued before or after graduation?

  • Open Thread – Weekend 5 Nov 2022

    Erminia and the Shepherds, Eugene Delacroix, 1859

  • Weekend Reading #11

    Henry George in The Critic wades into the mire that is Jonathan Last’s recent criticism of the conservatism of Roger Scruton. Two essays on the demands for ‘pandemic amnesty’, recently request by the Regime via their Atlanticist envoy, the reply from Sohrab Ahmari was Nyet and from Pedro Gonzalez was Punish. Pierre Manet reviews Émile…

  4. I wonder what can be done about these cockroaches in black robes? Ignore them of course. Can the judge enforce…

  5. Brace yourselves for the ugliness; Giordano Bruno@GioBruno1600·11hWell, well, look who had his chubby fingers in the USAID cookie jar. https://x.com/GioBruno1600/status/1888262370222342415

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