Greetings! Welcome to The Wasteland, or indeed welcome back if you are a returning reader of my reviews. The big news is, today, I am embracing a little tech and updating the way I post. From today, most reviews and commentaries will include a voice note / single person podcast, where the same review I … Continue reading The Wasteland Podcast
With over 2 years backlog of cultural artifacts to rate and review it has been daunting getting around to full 5 paragraph reviews for everything since I started work full time. So, it occurred to me an alternative to giving up was to publish some micro-posts with a 2/3 sentence summing up, plus a decinemal … Continue reading Micro Posts
Way back in January 2020, not very long after rebooting The Wasteland, I wrote a post called True Crime Trio that looked at the growing interest (fuelled almost entirely by Netflix) in the obsession and phenomenon of killers and their often bizarre, sometimes not entirely straightforward, or even solved, case histories and life stories. The … Continue reading 12 of the Best… True Crime Documentaries
Yes, Sunday 24th January 2021 marks the 100th post on this iteration of The Wasteland! This is it - this is the 100th post - ironic and post modern or what!?It has taken just over a year to do so, which makes it a 2 post average a week, and that includes periods during lockdown … Continue reading 100th Post
Look what I found! http://kbswasteland.blogspot.com http://kirkswasteland.blogspot.com These are the archives of The Wasteland when it first began - there are literally hundreds of posts to go back and read if so inclined. If nothing else it gives a fascinating glance at the state of pop culture in those days. Hats off to Blogger that they … Continue reading The Old Wastelands
As of Tuesday 21st July, The Wasteland is now on twitter! Find A Million Ways to Waste a Day @TheWasteland5
As Ricky Gervais cheekily crow-barred in to his opening speech at the 2020 Golden Globes a few weeks ago, it is possible to watch all of After Life series one in less time than it takes to watch The Irishman. And that is exactly what I did; binged the whole thing on autoplay until it … Continue reading After Life
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