Posts Tagged by murder
Breaking Bad
| February 4, 2013 | Posted by Ellys Sugarman under entertainment |
Being ill sucks. I’m ill right now: I have a cold. I know that a cold doesn’t sound all that serious, but being a guy I’m incapacitated. So naturally I haven’t been in college all week, after I learnt my lines (I’m a performing arts student) and finished my other homework – actually I lie, I haven’t done any of this because I’m ill. I’ve been sitting around getting bored and lonely. Something had to give, I needed entertaining, so I searched for something to do. Watching the tellybox seemed the obvious choice, but as usual there was nothing on. A few days beforehand, however, my mum had suggested watching an American show called Breaking Bad, and boy is it amazing.… more
Don’t judge a book by its cover
| July 13, 2012 | Posted by Joanna Starzynski under creative writing |
“I am in darkness now,” I muttered to myself. A crazy old man, that’s what I was – crazy. My hands were covered in blood, and like Lady Macbeth I felt doomed and powerless to a vicious fate. I looked at her body lying there half-tainted in shadow, the other half purified by the sun. The dagger was in my hands as I stumbled, astounded by my sin. I took a long drag from the cigarette, hoping it would relieve my pain, but it didn’t. I knelt down to check her pulse: nonexistent. She was a burden weighing me down, I contemplated as the darkness crept into my mind. She held me back; I wanted to fly but she had… more
Abort, Retry, Fail? 1-2: You saw nothing
| June 27, 2012 | Posted by S.A.Perkins under ARF? |
I apologise to my friend Sam, who had to take the hit and be the guest character in this comic. I hope I did him well enough not to get joked at, but something tells me that’s going to happen anyway. Aside from which, the promise to do consistent comics has held true, and the story continues! I’m not sure if power of deniability is actually a legal term, but I wish it was. more
The devil’s advocate: The problem with procreation
| March 21, 2012 | Posted by James Harle under lifestyle |
It’s hard to believe now that before 1935 you did not need to pass a test to drive a car on UK roads. Not only has this practice become so ingrained in our society that we no longer think of it, but also the good sense of the test is manifestly evident. Even the most recalcitrant learner – I personally hated learning to drive – would have to acknowledge that in the wrong hands a car is a deadly lump of speeding metal. The driving test stops the car from getting into the wrong hands, and driving lessons help you turn the wrong hands into the right hands. It’s a great system. In 2012, no license is required to procreate… more
The devil’s advocate: In defence of murder
| March 7, 2012 | Posted by James Harle under lifestyle |
Is it worse to kill an animal or a fellow human being? The presiding opinion is not only in favour of killing the animal, but strongly in favour of it – animals are slaughtered on a vast scale to service the needs, and more commonly the desires, of human society. A good working definition of moral evil might be that moral evil occurs when a body consciously acts to the detriment of another body. This seems simple enough to be going on with, but it also seems evident that for a poor man to steal from a rich man is less evil than for the rich man to steal from the poor. I would therefore suggest that, in fact, moral… more
Should I read… Death Note?
| March 6, 2012 | Posted by Emma French under should I read...? |
I thought that this week I would consider something a bit different from the usual reading recommendations you get from friends. If you are working through a busy period of your life – perhaps exams, or, like me, a mammoth lump of coursework – you don’t always have time for a novel like Captain Corelli with its 500 pages and mighty-small text. And at those points, you can’t always be bothered either. After marathon research periods spent staring at textbooks, a serious classic novel feels a bit too much like hard work. So, while I’m not advocating manga as a replacement to a good novel, it is a good alternative if you want a lot of action and less reading.… more
Why hate the last few minutes of the BRITs when you can hate all of it?
| February 25, 2012 | Posted by Cameron MacLeod under entertainment, satire |
This isn’t so much an article as a smug lecture from someone who didn’t waste two hours (or however long it was) of his life watching the BRIT awards on Tuesday. Or rather, someone who wasted that time watching Alex Polizzi’s The Fixer and then deciding whether or not he had just viewed a repeat, who then later had to research and view clips of the event when writing this article. In any case, enjoy. As far as self-congratulating formalities of reality TV go, this particular uncompromising turd was so utterly unpolished that even BBC3 ought to have turned its crack-eroded nose up at it. The fact that Adele’s entirely predictable monologue in acceptance of her grotesque and dubiously prestigious statuette… more
Should I read… Pigeon English?
| February 1, 2012 | Posted by Emma French under should I read...? |
So, having just finished Stephen Kelman’s debut novel Pigeon English (shortlisted for the 2011 Man Booker Prize), I felt like I had to write about it. This is not just because of the somewhat awesome qualities of the book, but also because of the sense of frustration it has eventually left me with. First, I would like to place on record that I have nothing but praise for the book, and would definitely recommend it, particularly to fans of The Curious Incident of the Dog in the Night-time, as the book follows much of the same premise. The narrator, Harrison, a year seven immigrant to Britain from Ghana, tries to uncover a murderer after a stabbing takes place in his London… more
The Girl with the Dragon Tattoo
| July 8, 2011 | Posted by Jess Kadow under culture, reviews |
The Girl with the Dragon Tattoo by Stieg Larsson presents a captivating and thrilling adventure full of secrecy and intrigue, which makes you constantly attempt to guess the next moves and thoughts of the characters to try and piece together the puzzle before it is too late. Despite the monstrous size of the book (spanning over 500 excitement-filled pages), the novel maintains the fast pace of a thriller combined with the sense of curiosity and mystery of a detective novel. In many ways, this book seems almost like a film in its speed and the fact that it sometimes leaves the reader unaware of the main character’s thoughts, forcing you to come to your own conclusions as you try to solve the mystery yourself. The… more
