Censorship, Freedom and Privacy

Today has been one of those days that came around far too quickly. My dissertation supervisor asked me a couple of months ago whether I would be interested in coming back to the University to guest spot in a lecture concerning censorship, freedom and privacy and today was to be the day it was done.
The [...]

Gorilla Biscuits…

…kicked it Saturday night. Pure class. I feel like I’€™ve waited my entire life to see them and unlike Bold (who jumped on the reunion bandwagon a couple of years ago) they were still so tight! Funny too.
Highlights: New Direction and Start Today (obvious intro and outro), old faces, Dead Kennedys cover (courtesy of Fast [...]

Persian Picture Perfect

Iran as a Nation of Nose-jobs is another one of those repetitive cliches that, putting it politely, really gets on my nerves. Since beginning my research into Iranian blogging I have collected a mass of editorials that, like Hitchens, although seemingly attempt to depict ‘Iran’s Other Face‘ or ‘Lift the Veil‘ do little more than [...]