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My Name is Joe 2 – Partial Recall

May 23, 2016EU Referendum, Mindfulness, Movies, Podcasts, Sci-fi, StrokeEnduring Love, James Bond, Joe Biden, Past Imperfect, Total Recallricky

Last week’s post on the nature of memory ended with a scene from Philip K. Dick’s Do Androids Dream of Electric Sheep? – the (loose) inspiration for Blade Runner.

‘Does she know?’ Sometimes they didn’t; false memories had been tried various times, generally in the mistaken idea that through them reactions to testing would be altered.

Eldon Rosen said, ‘No. We programmed her completely. But I think towards the end she suspected.’

But that’s science fiction, of course.

I wonder what a Philip K. Dick deep in his shroom cups would make of the #Eurovision pixelgasms pic.twitter.com/GHTtHz3Gd0

— Pat Kane (@thoughtland) May 14, 2016

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On Vacation

March 14, 2016Blog News, Digest Post, Digesta Plaga, EU Referendum, PoliticsCheerios, Withnail and Iricky

apoplectic.me is on vacation this week.

Of course they're the bloody Doctor — You’ve got to help me. I’ve gone on holiday by mistake.

I’ll look forward to writing to you next week. But in the meantime, please do take the opportunity to catch up with these recent scribblings by a bloke three years removed from a catastrophic haemorrhagic stroke:

The Hofstadter-Moebius Loop – on writing Nerd Bait’s latest short form rock opera.
Will This Do? – on Boris Johnson, in the style of a lazy, research shy, moron.
Will This Do, Too? – more #EUreferendum: why are these lying bastards lying to me?
Stroke Digest #8 – On The Revenant, Richard Dawkins, and a junior doctors’ strike update.
Survival – On The James Plays, lies, damned lies, and statistics.

All from a uniquely stroke-y angle.

Till next week…

Said Cheerio to the original name in 1945 — CheeriOats!

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Will This Do, Too?

February 29, 2016EU Referendum, PoliticsAnother 9 1/2 Weeks, Boris Johnson, Brexit, Jeremy Paxman, lies, Louis Herenricky

Last week, I posted my first blog post about the #EUreferendum. 22 February was just two days after MC Wee Davey C had held the first weekend cabinet meeting since the Falkands War, having returned from Brussels in triumph.

Now *that's* a proper suit. — “Some of you, perhaps, have already heard what this paper contains, but I would just like to read it to you: BORIS IS A SCRUFFY, TWO-FACED BASTARD.”

Since 22 February, seven months have passed, and the bloody vote won’t take place until 23 June.

[Pass the time with some whimsy over at the Apoplexy Tiny Letter.] Continue reading Will This Do, Too? →

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Will This Do?

February 22, 2016Edinburgh, EU Referendum, Politics, ReferendumBoris Johnson, EU Referendum, lies, Petronella Wyatt, SCOT goes POP!ricky

Yesterday evening, I still had no idea what this week’s blog would be about. Then, the hand of history reached out across the British Isles….

Crowds gather, waiting for Boris’s column to be posted. Make sure your children are with you. Memory to treasure pic.twitter.com/p9RVhMZTuw

— Robert Harris (@Robert___Harris) February 21, 2016

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Category Archives: EU Referendum

My Name is Joe 2 – Partial Recall

On Vacation

Will This Do, Too?

Will This Do?