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Jason Cook: grit, determination, a cracker of a story and a new movie...
Jason Cook on his phone in Borehamood
Jason Cook has turned up occasionally in this blog.
The last time was in December 2021 when my opening sentence was “You need grit and determination – and nowadays, ideally, the potential for sequels – to get movies made…”
Jason Cook has grit and determination, is indefatigable, has a staggeringly fertile creative mind and he has sequels and now a…
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#ADHD#Borehamwood#cocaine#Cookster#crime#Darkest Days#Djonny Chen#drugs#dyslexia#Elvira Devinamira#gangsters#Genesis cinema#Indonesia#Jason Cook#London Independent Film Festival#movies#No Room For Jugglers#Pirates of the South#Rats in Space#Silent D
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The trouble with "The Trouble with Jessica" movie is I don't want to tell all
Way back on 12th September last year, I saw the preview of a movie called The Trouble with Jessica.
Awkwardly, it’s one of those films I didn’t feel I could say too much about because there’s a whacking twist relatively early in the film. Well, it was a whacking twist to me because I was settling back thinking it was a leisurely British domestic drama.
The trouble is the twist is the central…
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#Hitchcock#marketing#Matt Winn#movie#Parkland Pictures#plot twist#promotion#Tarrac#The Road Dance#Tom Stewart#Trouble with Harry#Trouble with Jessica
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Our trip from a Canadian strip club via US neo-Nazis, South Africa to Rhodesia
David Hughes in the 1980s…
This all started, three blogs ago, as a piece about David Hughes, who worked as a doorman/cashier/DJ at the Le Strip club in Toronto from 1982 to 1994.
It then began to divert via undercover work for the CSIS (the Canadian Security Intelligence Service), neo-Nazis, a massive counterfeiting scheme, planned terrorism in the 1980s, a far right Christian Identity…
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#Army#Bush War#Canada#Canadian Pacific Rail#Christian Identity#CSIS#Darryl Winkler#David Hughes#Le Strip#military#police#politics#racism#Rhodesia#Rhodesian Armored Car Regiment#SAS#SIS#South Africa#South African Defence Force
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The Canadian spies, white supremacists and South African secret agents affair...
This all started three days ago with a blog about a Canadian striptease club called Le Strip.
Life seemed so simple then.
Yesterday’s follow-up blog was titled: THE NOT-SO SIMPLE TALE OF A CANADIAN STRIP CLUB AND TERRORISM IN THE 1980s.
It was about David Hughes, who worked as a doorman/cashier/DJ at Le Strip 1982-1994… and as a trainman on the Canadian Pacific Railway system 1986-2019… and as a…
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#ANC#apartheid#Army#BOSS#Canada#CSIS#David Hughes#Grant Bristow#Heritage Front#Le Strip#Max French#new Nazi#politics#Rhodesia#secret agent#Security Intelligence Review Committee#South Africa#spy#strip club#Toronto#undercover#Val Meredith#white supremacy
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The not-so simple tale of a Canadian strip club and terrorism in the 1980s
Yesterday’s blog involved reaction to a Comment on an October 2014 blog I posted about a Toronto striptease club called Le Strip.
Le Strip during its heyday in the 1980s…
The person who reacted to the Comment – David Hughes – had worked as doorman/cashier/DJ at Le Strip from 1982 to 1994.
In the reaction he posted, he mentioned an exotic dancer with the stage name ‘Black Magic’, a spy story,…
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#Black Magic#BrocVogel#Canadian Pacific Railway#Canadian Security Intelligence Service#Christian Identity#counterfeiting#CSA#CSIS#David Hughes#Gencraft#Grant Bristow#Heritage Front#Howell Michigan#Ku Klux Klan#Le Strip#Max French#new Nazi#Ontario Provincial Police#politics#racism#Robert E Miles#Robert Mathews#Security Service#Silent Brotherhood#The Order#Toronto#Vice#white supremacy
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My blog and Canadian 'Black Magic', a spy story, neo-Nazis and counterfeiting
GenCraft AI’s idea of what this specific blog might be about…
One of the fascinating things about this blog, which I started in May 2010, is that people sometimes pick up on posts from the past and comment on them… and on previous Comments on them.
For example, today there was a Comment about a blog I posted almost ten years ago – in October 2014.
The headline for that particular blog…
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#Anna Smith#Bill Dunphy#Canada#Canadian Security Intelligence Service#counterfeiting#CSIS#Don Cullen#Grant Bristow#Heritage Front#Le Strip#Max French#neo-Nazi#strip club#Toronto Sun
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"Late Night With The Devil". Not really a movie movie, but the eyes have it...
Late Night With The Devil poster
I don’t normally post reviews on here, but I saw a preview of Late Night With The Devil earlier this week. It opens in UK and US cinemas today and it opens up a whole can of interesting worms.
I guess the elevator pitch was something along the lines of The Exorcist meets The Blair Witch Project on a late-night US chat show – although ads are plugging it as…
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#Blair Witch#chat show#David Dastmalchian#exorcist#horror#Ingrid Torelli#Johnny Carson#Late Night With The Devil#movies#Night Owls#Rosemary&039;s Baby#television#US#willing suspension of disbelief
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AI picture generators prefer porn to Middle English, but do read Chaucer?
I tried inputting “Summer is icumin in” (and “Sumer is icumin in”) on an AI picture generator and got the reply:
“This prompt doesn’t abide by our content standards. Please try again with a different prompt!”
AI is obviously trained in American porn but oblivious to Middle English …
Although, to an extent, it’s relatively keen on Chaucer.
When I suggested:
“Whan that Aprill with his showres…
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'President of Africa' cleared by Reuters of US invasion threat to support Trump
Last week, I blogged here about the fact that the Reuters news agency was investigating – for a second time – whether ‘President Obonjo’ (aka comedian Benjamin Bello) really is the president of an African country.
In fact, this time, the worrying suspicion was that he is actually the President of the whole of Africa and that he had threatened to invade the US in support of Donald…
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#Africa#Benjamin Bello#comedy#Donald Trump#Fact Check#fake news#Ian Hawkins#Instagram#LAFTA Republic#President Biden#President Obonjo#Reuters#satire#TikTok
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The Iceman melts himself via AI...
As my blog yesterday mentioned performer/artist The Iceman, I thought I would ask Gencraft AI to create an image of “a man made of ice attempting to melt himself with a flame-thrower”.
It seemed like a good idea at the time.
This was the result.
It’s an interesting idea, but is this an example of Artificial Intelligence taking the piss…?
Is Artificial Intelligence taking the piss…?
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Writer Robert Wringham returns to live comedy. Plus a chicken sexing fall-back.
Robert Wringham is what Americans would call a hyphenate. He does all sorts of things. Basically he is a writer of humorous books; plus he has written two histories of alternative comedy; and he is editor of the New Escapologist magazine which “takes the stance that work has too central a position in Western life”.
He has appeared in previous blogs here and is currently co-producing Melt It! a…
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#Annotated Audiobook#audio books#chicken sexing#Chris Lynam#comedy#eddie izzard#Glasgow Comedy Festival#Iceman#Landis Blair#Melt It#New Escapologist#Robert Wringham#Simon Munnery
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Ariane Sherine aka Ariane X: "Why I wrote an album for my daughter..."
Today, Ariane X – aka Ariane Sherine, writer of multiple books, newspaper & magazine columns and music – has released a pop album entitled Better.
Why for her daughter? Why Better? Why Ariane X?
Here, she explains in her own words…
Pop stars don’t really write songs about their kids. I can think of a couple: Little Star by Madonna, Lullaby by Mel B… but, generally, they prefer to write about…
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#album#Ariane Sherine#Ariane X#Bandcamp#better#british#family#Indian#mixed race#motherhood#music#online#pop song#Secret Asian#writing
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Reuters suspects that a comedian may secretly be a real-life African dictator...
With all the misinformation swirling around, it is good to know that the Reuters news agency takes its journalistic responsibilities seriously when supplying worldwide news and media sources with facts.
But a joke’s a joke.
Reuters employs around 2,500 journalists and 600 photojournalists in about 200 locations worldwide.
In August last year, Reuters fact-checked President Obonjo, a British…
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#African#Benjamin Bello#comedy#dictator#Donald Trump#Instagram#LAFTA Republic#Melissa Tate#misinformation#politics#President Obonjo#Reuters#satire#TikTok
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Comedian Njambi McGrath has written a revenge novel...
Njambi’s latest book/first novel…
Well, that is it in a nutshell… Comedian Njambi McGrath wrote an autobiography in 2020. (There’s a blog about it HERE.)
Now she has written a revenge novel.
So I chatted to her about it…
JOHN: You’re now being described as “a stand-up comic, author and political commentator”. So you’re on a roll. Shamefully I’ve not seen your show An African in New York on…
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#1980s#Africa#Comedy Dynamics#Jacaranda#Kenya#Next Up#Njambi McGrath#novel#rape#Residents of the Ministry of Works#Rinsing Mukami’s Soul#Through the Leopard’s Gaze
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RIP pirate radio and mainstream TV broadcaster Keith Martin, 1934-2024
I was at a book launch in London tonight. A comedian’s first novel. A new beginning, perhaps.
So inevitably – because real life is badly plotted – about five minutes after I arrived, I found out via Facebook that Keith Martin had died.
A young Keith Martin (in the 1960s?) flanked by fellow DJs Keith Fordyce (L) and Keith Skues (R)
He was born on 2nd April 1934, so he was 89.
Keith at Anglia…
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I meant to write a blog...
(Image via UnSplash and Gencraft)
I meant to write a blog earlier.
I meant to write a blog now.
Well, to transcribe a recorded chat to become a blog.
But I got distracted by ice cream.
And desserts.
And chocolates.
And ablutions.
And … erm… look …
I got distracted.
I’m an old man.
I get easily distracted.
I’m worried about the price of chocolate.
Do you think monkeys eat chocolate in…
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The Chinese miracle of Wan Hua Oil...
I know nothing about medicine. I know nothing about medical matters, but…
Back in the mists of 1991, I got hit by a large – a very large – articulated truck. I was standing on the pavement at a corner; the truck turned the corner. I was hit by the edge of the corner of the trailer suddenly protruding beyond the width of the driver’s cab.
My collar bone was broken – I was told the medical word…
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