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August 2026

Three Chords and the Truth
a bit more on the culture and music of the Ulster Scots of Appalachia
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Dolly Parton, A Mercury Tilt Switch Bomb and the Meaning of Life
In Northern Ireland in the 1980s I used to get a ride to school with a man who was a Major in the British Army and thus a prime target of the IRA.
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Father of the Year
rewatching the Aussie drama Mr. Inbetween
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Razorback
a largely forgotten Ozploitation movie about a killer pig terrorizing the bush which is more beautiful than it has any right to be and which fired my…
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James Bond: The Last Agent
a few years ago I was asked by the Ian Fleming estate to pitch a James Bond novel to them; I had an idea for a gritty 1970s Bond and I wrote a little…
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Chapter 26 A Short Film About Killing
Mist in the sloping sheep field somewhere in the Blue Stack Mountains of Southern Donegal.
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