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A Legacy Contorted: The Facts About Dimebag Darrell And His Opinion Of Seven String Guitars

2012-01-15T15:15:00.000Z

I rarely deal with the subject of music aside from the sporadic and very blue moon posts about certain issues that I find infuriating because they might be genuinely rife with irrationality, or be of a patently false nature. This is one of those topics that contains ample quantities of both vices – irrationality and falsehoods, spawned from the very ignorant depths of the Metal Community.

Greatness Passes, But Its Impact Remains: A Farewell to Christopher Hitchens

2012-01-10T22:11:00.001Z

So another eventful year has passed, it was both mundane and predictable, but not without its own hints of the unexpected. Anyway, I would like to address one of the expected but personally saddening events: the passing of Christopher Hitchens at age 62 from pneumonia brought on by his cancer. It's funny since just days before his passing on the 15th of December, 2011, I was contemplating the

London Riots: Criminality and its Causes – Mutually Exclusive Subjects?

2011-08-28T16:10:00.007+01:00

Given the recent events in London, I was watching Sky News on the following Friday morning after having endured the chaos of the London riots over the earlier leg of the week. Many of my supposedly educated and enlightened contacts over the social network were posting brief little blurbs about using extreme force on these rioters, and perhaps even having them shipped off to Somalia or some other

Late as Always – One Boring Wedding, And One Snappy Funeral!

2011-07-21T20:39:00.012+01:00

In keeping with the trend that I have established for myself over the many years, I am going to address two pieces of news that are almost four months too late. As my old Course Leader, Anne Karpf once paraphrased one of her peers, “News shouldn't be called news, it should be called Olds.” Heh, I absolutely agreed with that axiom and strive hard day in and day out to be the most lazy bastard

An Inconvenient Leak

2011-01-12T15:51:00.004Z

The following is coming months late, but whatever. I know this is coming after a new year; we're in 2011 -- another year of staunch declarations for both the hopeless and those with iron-will. Yeah, I'll just pretend like it's another day and move on with the discussion. Not so fresh off the press--or as I like to call it, out of the horse’s ass—there’s international media drama over the

A Long Overdue Homage

2010-11-22T11:10:00.008Z

In this life of shenanigans and vulgar theatrics, all of which I appreciate and revel within, there’s a key note of timing that is always missing. This disrupts and detracts from the charm of such antics and with such glorified gimmicks execution is a cornerstone to perfection. Without it, you simply have a pointless exhibition devoid of any self-reflection or depth.