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Three Days of the Condor
Rarely is the hero the one whose actions lie not in the realm of practice but in that of theory. Valour and strength typify the hero; physicality is the emblem of the hero. The champion protagonist is...
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Surviving the Game
The preceding moments were filled with trepidation. The DVD, held solidly in the hand, its contents a fog of ambiguity, returned the gaze I cast upon it. ‘What,’ I asked, ‘is this beast I’m about to...
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Death Bed: The Bed That Eats (and a tale: Twilight of the Care Bear)
It took place one night last week: an ordeal, a trauma, a hurtful jab in the guts of slumber. Mere recollection sears the memory paths, for this was the sort of nocturnal nasty destined to be forever...
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The Misattribution of Jean Claude Van Damme
A question and an answer, that’s how it started. An exchange lit by the crisp tingle of a monetary reward. The chime of the ringing phone, the disgruntled vibration of plastic on wood. A man’s death...
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Crisis on Bearded Fahey
A sanctuary no longer, an inner pit assailed by change, become a sanctum diminished beyond fix, a porcelain paradise loose of its promise, born anew in the miasmic after-burn. Death wills and toxic...
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Unsent Letters to Gary Busey: Letter 1 - Sprawling Apologies & Silver Bullet
Dear Gary Busey,Words are not your forte, I know that. The merest fart of a word is outright prolixity to you. Sentences are vulgar extravagance, needless and distracting. I know your pain about the...
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Unsent Letters to Gary Busey: Letter 2 - Information Overabundance, the Agony...
Dear Gary Busey,I refuse to have any more thoughts. That’s it, I’m done with them. Niggling though they are – and it’s incessant, the thoughts always puncture the most innocent of my pleasures, from a...
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Tornado! (Starring Bruce Campbell)
Given the usual incoherence of the morning I’m surprised I heard the banging. It was a sound from outside, it seemed, or maybe not, maybe inside. The origination was not immediately clear. An odd...
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The Seven Lives of Blanka
The street scene décor looks wooden. A few niggling cries of inauthenticity ring out, blackening the air with contrarian glee. Cleanly varnished surfaces reflect the light, a setting fresh at the...
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Repetition Roulette
It started as a memo, just another anonymous sheet of white shuffled haphazardly across the political palms. No one foresaw its catalytic potential. Neither were there fleeting images of turmoil, nor...
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Quaidscape Dream Potlatch
Free daily newspapers swarm across the train carriage. Seven teenagers cower next to the sliding doors, hands held, earphones crisscrossing, the buzzing of faint guitar riffs filling the space between...
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The First Power
Sixteen minutes, twenty yards. Time-lapse retinas screen the image. In rotation are twisted looks, unblemished contortions, signals of a face in motion, a battle endlessly fought, a soaring fable...
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Steven Seagal: Lawman – Season 1 Episode 1 – "The Way of the Gun"
Here we sit, arms interlocked, happily cohesive, happily idolatrous, happily sharing a rich platter of preconceived ideas. All thoughts point to one thing: Steven Seagal, exemplar of the arts, muse to...
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Steven Seagal: Lawman – Season 1 Episode 2 – "The Deadly Hand"
The silence is shattered by a hoarse jagged scream coming from the corner. An unseen assailant wears nothing but a frozen heroin grin. The damp night darkness dominates everything, casting a net of...
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Steven Seagal: Lawman – Season 1 Episode 3 – "Killer Canines"
Minutes are compressed into seconds. The police car speeds furiously across tarmac and pavement, bolting forward through a gauntlet of haze, the hegemony of colour obscura: the warped cerulean discord...
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Steven Seagal: Lawman – Season 1 Episode 4 – "Too Young to Die"
If the contemplation of art is united with a suitably assiduous mental effort, one can see on the canvas fragments of what might have been. Shadows of possibility lie embedded within the image, ghosts...
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Steven Seagal: Lawman – Season 1 Episode 5 – "Firearms of Fury"
There’s a gene for masochism. There has to be. How else can we explain why the people of Jefferson Parish, Louisiana persist in breaking the law? Scientists have yet to scale the double helix in the...
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Steven Seagal: Lawman – Season 1 Episode 6 – "The Student Becomes the Master"
False modesty is a disease, a damnable scourge afflicting the citizenry with pandemic efficiency. The streets are lined with countless darkened imprints of a vanished modesty. Faces skirt past...
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Steven Seagal: Lawman – Season 1 Episode 7 – "To Live or Die"
Defining the object should always be the first task of analysis. Narrow your eyes, focus on the object, trace the contours, ready the scalpel held clenched in the hand. It’s simple good practice. But...
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Steven Seagal: Lawman – Season 1 Episode 8 – "Medicine Man"
In the depths of night a strange vision occurs. Up flashes a hospital interior, lit neon white. A low electric hum is heard. Injured bodies lie propped against the walls, warbling a diminished sound....
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