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Tuesday Roundup 31-10-2006

By Gregon

A strange assortment to get you through the week…

  • This week’s Binnall of America audio interview is with Scott Corrales on the Chupacabra mystery (mp3/podcast or streaming Flash player).
  • As a Halloween special, Loren Coleman gives you his Top 50 cryptids.
  • Filip Coppens looks at the message behind V for Vendetta.
  • Skeptic Randi’s latest newsletter does all the critical thinking for you. Filip Coppens and friends (Gary Osborn, Mark Pilkington) make their appearance for the third week running. Well done lads!
  • UFO Casebook #229 is now available for your reading pleasure.
  • In case you missed it – Graham Hancock was on Whitley Strieber’s Dreamland radio show on the weekend, you can listen to the show at the Dreamland website (click on the ‘Listen Now’ at the top right of the page).
  • Watch The British UFO Files online.

Enjoy!

Greg
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Greg is the owner-editor of The Daily Grail, as well as the author of a number of books including Stop Worrying, There Probably is an Afterlife.
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One Comment

  1. V For …
    V For “I’ll read anything I like out of the story regardless of what the author originally intended”.

    Alan Moore sums it up brilliantly:

    After reading the script, Moore remarked that his comic had been “turned into a Bush-era parable by people too timid to set a political satire in their own country…. This film is a thwarted and frustrated and largely impotent American liberal fantasy of someone with American liberal values standing up against a state run by neoconservatives – which is not what the comic ‘V for Vendetta’ was about. It was about fascism, it was about anarchy, it was about England.”

    As a teenage fan of the comics in the late 1980s, I was aware that V was a direct allegory for England at the time of the Thatcher Government. And like Moore, I was appalled when I found out what the Wachowski Brothers were doing to it. Not nearly so appalled as when I saw the League Of Extraordinary Gentleman film (I’m still scrubbing the horror of seeing it from my mind), but I was pretty bloody annoyed. The Wachowski Bros are either culturally ignorant, or they just didn’t give a toss about Moore’s story and are simply culturally arrogant. But then, I’ve read theses and essays arguing that Peter Jackson’s film adapations of Tolkein’s The Lord Of The Rings are allegorical for the War on Terror so maybe I’m expecting too much from the conspiracy theory obsessed (and the Wachowski’s are self-confessed conspiracy otaku).

    Still, I guiltily enjoyed the V For Vendetta film. 😉

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