Like most people, I am a fan of comedy. I have only personally known one person (an assistant head teacher) who claimed to not like comedy at all – not only stand-up comedians but anything. She literally found nothing funny. Nothing. I wasn’t there when she confessed this nugget, but if I had been I wouldn’t have known whether to make a joke about it or not. It surely would’ve been a waste of energy. Continue reading “Stewart Lee – Funny, Seriously”
Category: Reviews
Reviews vs. Reflections
[I have only just realised, after writing this whole post, that this is really just a PR plug for a podcast I’m involved in, ‘The Proof is in the Podcast’. Feel free to just go straight to the chitter-chatter first.]
There are clearly many forms of writing which have become well established over time: The Novel, The Short Story, The Poem etc. We know these forms, so we know what to expect e.g. we know that a short story can probably be finished whilst travelling on The District Line between Earl’s Court and Tower Hill – with a twist hopefully kicking in somewhere near Monument. Now, just another one of these forms, which has become quite as ubiquitous as the others, is The Review (a poor example of which I sort of ‘coughed up’ down below). And I have to confess that there are some aspects of reviews that I just don’t get. Continue reading “Reviews vs. Reflections”
Review of ‘Batman: Arkham Asylum’
You obviously have to be wary with games linked to film franchises, but then again why take any risks these days when metacritic can all but guarantee 90% satisfaction? More generally, you should be wary about making any assumptions, and here I made the false assumption that this was linked to a film franchise in the first place. It’s actually linked closely to the original comic book and animated TV series, I am told. This is good, because you’re just ‘being Batman’, you’re not ‘being Christian Bale being Batman and doing all the things you already know he’ll do because you’ve watched the film, like, five times’. Continue reading “Review of ‘Batman: Arkham Asylum’”
Zeph Auerbach 