Essays & Opinion

Winning the Ultimate Popularity Contest

Only a nation that encourages its citizens to vote for its public prosecutors and prom queens could deliver the ultimate in popularity contests. ...

No Objection to Objectification

A relatively minor news story grabbed my attention this week. Or rather, I noticed it briefly, and then kept remembering it as I...

If Zombies Were Real…

We live in a pretty strange society. Walk up to a stranger at random and start talking about habeas corpus and they will...

How Lettuce-eating Cyclists Kill our Planet

Did the title grab your attention? Cannot believe it is true? It IS true. The dots are there, people just refuse...

How to Make Enemies and Annoy People

I should be happy. Yesterday, my other blog, the boring one about what I do for a living, set a new record for...

Where Does Art Start?

If you are like me, you get mildly annoyed when people wander through a museum and feel the need to run their hands all...

Talking Hawking

Stephen Hawking makes for an improbable celebrity. He hardly moves at all, and he tends not to make any noise. If you...

Game, Sex and Match

Wimbledon must rank as the most eccentric of sporting events. Strawberries and cream, Pimms and Lemonade, sporting outfits designed to look like evening...

Actors that Run

Actors can act lots of different things. They can act happy, sad, horny, drunk, even Irish. On queue, they will laugh, cry,...

What Can the Matter Be, Shami Chakrabarti?

This post is about Shami Chakrabarti. If you are interested in current affairs, and live in the UK, and are not just pretending...

Save the Emo

I was at the Reading Festival (a music festival in Reading, Berkshire, England - not a festival about reading books) a few years ago,...

Oil’s Well That Ends Well

A few thousand years ago, God and the Devil were winding down after a day of hard negotiation on the Heaven and Hell Entrance...
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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.

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