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From the Gilt Press: A personal response to a talk I attended over a month ago written after careful contemplation having lost some initial joy de vivre

April 26, 2013by theoystersearrings Leave a comment

A great difficulty a reviewer can face in reviewing an experience is that the mind is perhaps even more efficient than one should like it to be. By which I mean that […]

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Features: The Gilt Press, Theatre
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Something I’m Not Working On #1: Sarah Sharp

April 25, 2013by theoystersearrings Leave a comment

The Strange Case of the Justified Cannibal: Some Thoughts on Representations of Cannibalism in Nineteenth Century Shipwreck Narratives Introducing a new feature to the O.E., ‘Something I’m Not Working On’. […]

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Author: Sarah Sharp, Features: Something I'm Not Working On, History, Literature
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And You’ll Be a Man, My Son

April 24, 2013by theoystersearrings 1 Comment

  by Matthew Wilby All men are bastards, or so I’ve been told, and generally speaking, yes, as a gender, historically, we have been pretty shit on the whole. Years […]

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Author: Matthew Wilby, Film, Media, Politics
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Figure Ground

April 23, 2013by theoystersearrings Leave a comment

Chiara Zuanni is an archaeologist and figure skating enthusiast based in Manchester. She has covered and photographed skating events for the Italian-language website ArtOnIce and for her own blog Dreaming […]

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Art, Author: Chiara Zuanni, Sport, Technology
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Trial & Error

April 22, 2013by theoystersearrings Leave a comment

by Luke Healey A year or so ago, me and my now-wife were listening to a Friday night Tom Ravenscroft broadcast on BBC 6 Music. Rob St. John – the […]

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Author: Luke Healey, History, Music, Politics
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Merry Christmas from The Oyster’s Earrings

December 20, 2011by theoystersearrings Leave a comment

Dear all, New Year will bring new posts. In the meantime, here are two gifts. The first is a playlist of the best things I’ve heard all year (just click […]

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Author: Luke Healey, Literature, Music
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Two Pear-Shaped Pieces

December 9, 2011by theoystersearrings Leave a comment

This is my response to having just completed the busiest semester of my life. Occupied with Ed Ruscha, Gerhard Richter and Dan Graham for most of the last few months, […]

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Art, Author: Luke Healey, Media, Music, Philosophy, Technology
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Going to seed

October 20, 2011by theoystersearrings 1 Comment

Next month will see the close of another round of qualification for a major international football tournament, as the final participants for Euro 2012 are decided. Unfortunately (or fortunately if […]

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Author: David Jackson, Sport
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Comedy=Time+Twitter

September 9, 2011by theoystersearrings 1 Comment

The process of building a following on twitter has been of interest to me for some time. I had come to the conclusion that twitter consisted, rather strictly, of ordinary […]

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Author: David Jackson, Comedy, Media, Technology
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Must try harder

September 2, 2011by theoystersearrings Leave a comment

On Tuesday night I saw Pedro Almodóvar’s ‘The Skin I Live In‘, for which I would struggle to find an equal out of the admittedly limited selection of films I […]

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Art, Author: Luke Healey, Film, Literature

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