Anime generation

Printmaking.

I’m having a slow kind of day and don’t know what to do with myself. My painting is going nowhere fast and yet I need to do something. The colours don’t blend properly and the paint doesn’t end up where I want it to be on the paper in front of me. Everyone else seems really into their work and not up for talking. I don’t want to disturb them, but I don’t want to carry on doing what I’m More

The demise of My So-Called Life

My first encounter with the erstwhile teen television show My So-Called Life was reading a novelization of the TV series that I had checked out of my local library as a teenager. Needles to say, it was great fun, and I made sure that I gave the show itself a few hours of my viewing pleasure. The show was surprisingly good, too. Set in the aptly-named Liberty High, the show revolves around a group of extremely self-aware and precocious teenagers, More

American Gothic: other options?

American Gothic is, far and away, one of the best shows I have ever had the privilege to watch on television. The show, a horror series created by Shaun Cassidy, and starring Gary Cole as corrupt sheriff Lucas Buck, first aired in 1995, around about the time when shows such as the much-loved X-Files were just starting to come on to the scene.

However, while shows such as the X-Files found tremendous success and endured for many seasons, American Gothic More