Ken Campbell and Robert Anton Wilson: Theatre Perilous
Tom LennonCosmic Coincidence Control Center: Ken Campbell's 70s stage adaptation of Robert Anton Wilson and Robert Shea's Illuminatus!
Naughtie Boy
Tom LennonThis morning, I was getting ready for work while listening to Radio 4’s Today Programme. That’s just the way I roll. I skipped breakfast, which […]
“Does Humour Belong in Politics?”
Tom LennonCan you honestly imagine Lenny Bruce or Bill Hicks submitting to the discipline of the Whips?
That was the Right Honourable MP for Ealing North, Stephen […]
The Secret World
Tom LennonRadio 4’s The Secret World is billed as a ‘comedy series that offers an insight into the private lives of the famous’, […]
Philip K. David Davis
Tom LennonFormer shadow home secretary David Davis was just on Radio 4’s Today programme. He was discussing the role of police crowd control following the […]
Danse Macabre
Tom Lennon“Sometime in mid-July 1518, in the city of Strasbourg, a woman stepped into the street and started to dance.”
There was a fascinating piece on this […]
When life turns into a Robert Anton Wilson novel
Tom LennonIt was 8am and I was driving to work, listening to Radio 4’s Today Programme as John Humpreys […]
Latitude Diary: Day 2, Part 1 – Just a Bloody Minute
Tom Lennon- 09.45 Emerge from sleeping bag.
- 10.20 Emerge from tent.
- 10.30 […]
Only Forward
Tom Lennon
“Yet more than all this, the really lethal thing about the whole language of business – is that it is so brainlessly upbeat. […]
Latitude
Tom LennonIt’s early days yet, but the line-up for this year’s Latitude Festival is already shaping up rather nicely.
As I’ve probably mentioned before, Latitude […]
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Tom LennonIt’s a bit late in the day, but I can’t talk about The Pogues without at least mentioning the recent brouhaha over the re-release […]
Beowulf
Tom LennonTonight I went to the cinema to see Beowulf. It was the 3D version, so I’m currently suffering from a mild bout of sensory overload. […]