So long Vic Mackey
So it’s over - the last ever episode of The Shield was aired on Monday night. It was one of the greatest TV cops shows ever, possibly the greatest,* and in corrupt detective Vic Mackey, portrayed superbly by Michael Chiklis, it had one of the most compelling central characters in the history of the genre.
The [...]
Great debut albums
NME has a special issue this week to mark the 20th anniversary of the release of “The Stone Roses”, hailing it as “the greatest debut album ever”. Now I have to say I have never been a big fan of the Roses anyway and never really got the whole Manchester “baggy” thing but I guess [...]
A couple of farewells…
First of all I would like to wish all Mutantblog readers a Happy New Year. Sorry for the lack of posts recently, this was due to a combination of home and work commitments and laziness, but mostly laziness.
Anyway, I have been stirred out of my stupor by a couple of sad pieces of news for [...]
Who needs the BNP…
I didn’t see this on the newsstands but Anton Vowel at Enemies of Reason brought it to my attention.
Of course they will no doubt come up with the usual spurious nonsense to justify it…”raising legitimate concerns” etc. and will claim that people who complain are trying to “shut down debate about immigration”. Well bollocks - [...]
Lottery winner? Well who picked his numbers?
There was much outrage in The Sun yesterday over Colin Stagg’s £700k compensation award, his remark that he felt “like a lottery winner” and the relative paucity of the payouts to 7/7 victims. The Mail had a similar headline, although the story seems to have been toned down slightly on its website.
Now Stagg’s remarks about winning the lottery [...]