I’ve written a new song inspired by The Dying Citizen, a recent book by American historian Victor Davis Hansen.

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The Dying Citizen

I never liked Interstellar either. While I enjoyed his earlier films, I'm sick of Nolan's new experiments in sound mixing. The muddy soundscape of Interstellar literally put me to sleep in the cinema, and Tenet had a similarly muddy sound design.

Nolan has claimed that this is all part of using more production audio instead of doing post-…

Christopher Nolan is ‘Mid’

Today I went out with

to film My Son in Amerikay, a song written by Alf MacLochlainn about an Irish mother’s attempts to contact her son who had recently emigrated to America.

I haven’t tried out the video functionality in Substack before, so hopefully this video embeds successfully…

While it is satirical, I think Cyril Northcote Parkinson's idea of how to select a political leader could be effective in the real world:

"Wanted: Prime Minister of Ruritania. Hours of work: 4 A.M. to 11.59 P.M. Candidates must be prepared to fight three rounds with the current heavyweight champion (regulation gloves to be worn). Candidat…

Political Leaders and Leadership

Big Ape, Small Ape #10

Big Ape Sound Alarm

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Ape Town Market Day

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Small Ape Sick In Bed

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Big Ape Like Spreadsheets

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Big Ape Not Need Tool

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and I are hard at work on our new comic series Mix & Master. In the meantime, we’ve made 5 more Big Ape, Small Ape sketches.

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