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When Comedians Attack

Jonathan May-Bowles, a.k.a. Jonnie Marbles, is due for a recall to the comedy factory. After 17-and-a-half minutes of undeserved fame, he has conspicuously...

Asking Questions of Pilger’s Research

The beginning is a good place to start a story. The Euro-American attack on Libya has nothing to do with protecting anyone; only the terminally...

Confessions to a Cruel Internet

Dear friend, I like to start my notes to you as if we're already in the middle of a conversation. That was a...

The Movie Demagination Index

Sex in the City 2. Predators. Iron Man 2. Jackass 3D. Saw VII 3D. The Twilight Saga: Whatever. ...

Music of the Marionettes

Five. Four. Three. Two. One. It seems hard to believe that Gerry Anderson, pioneer of Supermarionation and producer of classic kids' television like Thunderbirds and Captain Scarlet might have...

The New Paradigm of Print: Many and Few, Novel and New

Gutenberg and his Bible... The Little Red Book from Mao Zedong... The Guinness Book of Records setting the bestseller record for a copyrighted series...

The Tao of Sporting Punditry

When an accident occurred during an F1 Grand Prix, Murray Walker, the motor racing commentator would sometimes tell the audience "we can't see what's...

News is No News

If I told you what I did today, you probably would be left unimpressed. Rather obviously, I spent a part of today writing...

Lily Allen: The New Arthur Scargill

Enjoy this blog as a podcast here or at iTunes. George Orwell wrote about Salvador Dali: "One ought to be able to hold in one's head...

Ideas: Worth Less, Worthless, or Worth Even More?

When the US was a young nation, it was greedy to learn and to grow. A good example is Benjamin Franklin a famous...

Derren Brown: Magician or Charlatan?

Stage and television magician Derren Brown is something of an enigma. That is not to say his 'magic' or his stage persona is...

Digital Division: Brown’s Roadmap to Nowhere

This week saw the publication of the British Government's Digital Britain report. Whatever else it told us, it confirmed one thing: we are...

About Halfthoughts

This website showcases content created by Eric Priezkalns, who also uses the pen name Ray Blank when writing science fiction. It includes stories, essays, poems, short films and audio recordings.