Blogspot - theappallingstrangeness.blogspot.com
General Information:
Latest News:
A New Year's Resolution and The End 1 Jan 2012 | 12:00 am
I've tried, you know. I've really tried to get the enthusiasm back for this blogging malarkey, but it just isn't happening. So I think I'll set myself up with a New Year's Resolution that I can almost...
On Relativism, Pluralism and Reality 31 Dec 2011 | 12:00 am
One of the most tedious charges that has been levelled at me by people who don't really know what they are talking about is that I am some sort of relativist. This is clearly nonsense. Yeah, I believe...
The Year in Doctor Who 30 Dec 2011 | 12:00 am
I was thinking of doing a countdown/reassessment of the Doctor Who episodes of the year, but my opinons haven't really changed and a simple countdown is pretty boring*. So instead I'm offering an over...
Untitled 29 Dec 2011 | 03:32 am
Ah, a festive tradition - a Christian belly-aching about Christmas losing its essential meaning. Cue a whole host of comments, some backing the author, some trotting out the old cliches about how Chri...
Doctor Who: The Doctor, The Widow and the Wardrobe 28 Dec 2011 | 06:00 am
Well, quite simply that was the best Doctor Who Christmas special ever. It managed to take the different elements of a good Christmas story, and bind them together to create the sort of Christmas day ...
The Near Impossibility of President Ron Paul 27 Dec 2011 | 11:30 pm
Now the rest of the GOP field has peaked too early, people are adopting that predictable position - through nothing more meaningful than a crude process of elimination - that maybe the Republican nomi...
Untitled 26 Dec 2011 | 12:00 am
Merry Christmas y'all! Hope you have a good one celebrating in whatever way you see fit and whatever way works for you. Oh, and don't forget to watch this. I'll be publishing a review of it in the no...
Unlikely Festive Films 24 Dec 2011 | 09:23 am
'Tis the season to watch festive films. And what a choice you have! You can watch the curious tale (on paper at least) of a retarded angel saving a put-upon banker from jumping in the river after a pa...
On Kim Jong-Il and Idiots 20 Dec 2011 | 02:17 am
A brief missive from the blogging wilderness: Today is a special sort of a day. Today you may get incontrovertible proof that some people you know are total idiots. Because today some people, in the ...
Untitled 24 Nov 2011 | 07:05 am
Soooo..... regular readers of this blog will have noted a certain inactivity of late. When posting has happened, it has been sporadic at best. And there's going to be no apology for that, merely an ex...
