After careful deliberation, Edith decided Queenie’s plan was a goer OK, here’s the deal: POSTCULTURIST.COM (er, here) will be the place where animations, random film snippets, playlists, podcasts (um, work in progress) and magpie-style multimedia nuggets get stashed. QUEENIEHARRISON.COM will be the place where any serious (ha! oh, that was meant to be serious) bloggage [...]

After quite a few years of meandering, flailing, senselessly ambling, patience-shredding, friend-losing, opportunity-shunning, self-doubt-crippled dilettantism… I have decided to get some focus. Normally I’d chuck a self-deprecating joke in here about my own hopeless inability to crack on with the job, ha ha, ever the hapless goon. But not this time. I might cross-pollinate my [...]

It’s here! It’s evolved! It changes colours every time you refresh! (the joy…) It’s Postculturist 2.0. We won’t be calling it that though, don’t worry. That would be Lame 3.0. The site’s got a proper focus now – culture, in all its glorious forms – and it won’t just be me writing either. There will [...]

I went to the Isles of Scilly a little while ago. While I was there, I was struck by how weirdly tranquil it was. A world apart from the mainland, a mere 20 minute helicopter flight away. And that bit of the mainland is Penzance, a gorgeous fishing town. Hardly the Bronx. It took me [...]

Last week, the proprietors of Pirate Bay were found guilty of being accessories to copyright crime. The site is a popular and well-used free repository of links to copyright-ignoring media torrents. The debate has turned cartwheels ever since, in the mainstream media and in blogs. Was a custodial sentence really warranted? Should the entertainment industry [...]

or Why I’m not paying into my pension any more, in three easy steps So what is postculturism? I promised you an explanation and, dash it all, you shall have one. The Derrick Jensen quotation in the sidebar says it all, really: “The age of grotesque exuberance is over.” You don’t have to empathise with [...]

UPDATE: A better explanation can be found in the post Postculturism for beginners A good question, and one I’ve been asked literally, ooh, twice. So I’ll be preparing a proper About page on it soon. Roughly, ‘postculture’ is the flippant answer to “What comes after postmodern?” And if that’s as clear as mud, don’t panic. [...]