Andy is a self-righteous Guardian-reading philosopher. He uses excessive redundant and superfluous adjectives (and too many brackets).
articles
- Doctor Who: The One With Hitler Andy G didn't really like Let's Kill Hitler.
- Minotaurs and submarines Andy G explores the world of Lego board games
- Harmony, harmony, oh love Andy G enthuses about Robot Unicorn Attack
- Wittgenstein, Martians and Hunky Young Men Musings on the film Wittgenstein and why Terry Eagleton is a bit of a prick.
playpen posts
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at 12:58 on 10-04-2013
(Not that Thatcher-hate *necessarily* has to take the form of celebration)
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at 12:54 on 10-04-2013
Her death is obviously only of symbolic rather than practical importance by this stage, but I think that much of the Thatcher-hate has involved explicit acknowledgement of her ongoing legacy a...
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at 12:16 on 09-04-2013
It's long been portrayed as a day that her enemies would celebrate, but in fact it's been more of a heyday for her supporters because they get a chance to moralise about people celebrating her...
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at 16:03 on 21-03-2013
Regarding gamebooks, I think most only ever have one "successful" outcome but multiple ways of getting there (main honourable exception I can think of is Heart of Ice, which has four ...
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at 12:47 on 27-02-2013
I'm rather baffled why you would think my comment was offensive, so I can only assume we're talking at cross purposes, and I am sorry if I have inadvertently caused offence. In particular, my ...
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at 22:51 on 26-02-2013
I don't think the issue is having a political agenda as such (if anything, I think it's admirable to be upfront about your political agenda rather than disguising it in a pretence at neutralit...
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comments
- 13:40, 14-05-2013 on Ho There Jim Lad:
With regard to film/TV rather than music, I've found it frustrating that although I'm perfectly happy to pay for DVDs/subscripti...
permalink - 15:34, 13-05-2013 on Ho There Jim Lad:
As an aside, did anyone hear the amusing story that the makers of the "You wouldn't steal a handbag" ad were themselves <a href=...
permalink - 22:50, 08-05-2013 on Thoughts on Braid:
Was going to post about Braid in the Playpen to ask if anyone had played it, but I see there was indeed already a Ferretbrain ar...
permalink - 15:31, 10-04-2013 on Ferretbrain Presents: The Complete Works of Shakespeare Episode 0 - Introduction:
Also, while I remember, apparently Two Gentlemen of Verona (up next?) features the only dog in any Shakespeare play.
permalink - 15:13, 10-04-2013 on Ferretbrain Presents: The Complete Works of Shakespeare Episode 0 - Introduction:
On the quiz show Pointless today, they gave 100 people 100 seconds to name as many of the 14 "non-eponymous" Shakespeare plays a...
permalink - 18:20, 24-03-2013 on Taking the Michael:
Suspect many of you may already have seen this, but <a href="http://www.guardian.co.uk/commentisfree/2013/mar/24/stweart-lee-mic...
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