Entertainment Vs Irritation

'Seeing a murder on television can help
[you] work off one's antagonisms.
And if you haven't any antagonisms
the commercials will give you some.'
-Alfred Hitchcock

The Life We Turn On And Off In The Corner

'Television is more interesting
than people, if it were not
we would have people
standing in the corners
of our rooms'-Alan Coren

A Self Portrait by D. H. Lawrence

Self portraits were not the only paintings he painted.
In 1929 he put on show in a private gallery a series
of paintings that were as sensual as they were primitive
in the techniques with which they were painted.
Ninety years on, what remained of the original
paintings was shown again to a more sympathetic response.
Please read about it here.

Choice in Disbelief

'When I told the people of Northern Ireland
that I was an atheist, a woman in the audience
stood up and said, 'Yes, but is it the God
of the Catholics or the God of the Protestants
in whom you don't believe?'-Quentin Crisp 

The Evening News

is when presenters
and say 'Good Evening'
and proceed tell the public
who it was not so good for.

National And Personal Delusion

Long before Rohypnol created amnesiac victims
of sexual assault absolute power, self censorship,
and corruption to the point of total misinformation
have made people yield and submit just as effectively.

The Easy Life

The road to Hell often presents itself 
as the path of least resistance,
how else would it appear to so attractive?