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Last Updated: 26/11/2008 15:37:16
Silver Fox is a hugely talented writer who's contributions to thisisUll.com include Humber Mouth reviews, music, theatre and art reviews, opinions and many poems.
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Silver Fox contributions are listed below..
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Columns - Martians, Venusians and Other Figments of the Popular Imagination By the Silver Fox
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Firstly, an apology to the more nerdly of you who may, from the above title, have expected a stimulating and wide-reaching reappraisal of populist science-fiction - Battlestar Galactica, Dan Dare, and the like. Perhaps another time though, as such matters are rarely far from the thoughts of most cultural types. It will have a far more apposite title,
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Columns - Giving the Axis of Evil Another Spin By the Silver Fox
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While most people doubtless saw their festive holidays rocked by the latest cataclysmic
revelations on the annual bonanza of doom that is the Eastenders Christmas episode, one or two of us may have been more put off of our turkey sandwiches by the far more disturbing developments that developed so disturbingly in the real world.
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Columns - Democracy - Not Everyone's Bag - The Silver Fox
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First things first: I ought to clarify what I'm doing here, taking up valuable space on your monitor -
a space that I realise that so many of you consider an inviolate sanctuary for pictures of amusing
deformity or make your own Semtex recipes.
The fact is, it's all something of a mistake.
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Fiction - The Artist By The Silver Fox
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Pencil in hand, he stands immobile. His eyes are locked onto the pristine expanse before him as though searching for some secret buried within the paper itself; an image that his pencil will simply be highlighting rather than creating. Above and beyond his eye line, the graphite point gleams dully in the harsh light that cascades down onto the easel.
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Fiction - 100 Words Competition - The Flat By The Silver Fox
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He emerged from the oven to see the landlord eyeing him as though enquiring as to what he'd expected to find in there. He adopted a knowing expression - as though saying that he hadn't found it and was disappointed.
"Seventy a week?"
"That covers your water rates," came the expansive reply. He nodded, fearing that further conversation would bring
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Fiction - 100 Words Competition - The Prescription By The Silver Fox
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The pen flashed across the pad like a magic wand. Jeff watched, appropriately spellbound. The prescription was pushed across the desk with neither comment nor eye contact.
"Not much of a bedside manner."
"This isn't a bedside."
Pain sent a stinging retort flying to Jeff's lips; need bit it back.
"Not funny," he mumbled, leaving.
After an agonising moonwalk
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Fiction - 100 Words Competition - Kids Like That By The Silver Fox
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The abuse, though muted by the noise of the engine, was clear and vile in the thick afternoon air. It poured onto the bowed head of the smaller boy; rank as his sweat and tears. He pressed down upon the accelerator and the car shot forward, elongating the bully's last insult into a thin scream.
He was out onto the hot road before the broken bundle had rolled off of the bonnet.
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Columns - Look After the Pennies and the Self-Serving Will Look After Themselves By the Silver Fox
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The disbursement of public monies to various groups has always been a hot topic,
being, as it is, one that affects pretty much everyone in one way or another.
Public money is, of course, literally that - our money; the pounds and pence we
fling at the government with desperate and reckless abandon, so humbly
delighted and grateful are we to make a
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Fiction - Mr Keith Fortner By The Silver Fox
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In assessing the nature and worth of Mr Keith Fortner, it helps to be acquainted with one or two salient facts about his background. This is true of anyone, of course; understanding can rarely come without some awareness of their past experiences and emotional development after all.
Even the vast majority of people who tend to exist in a very limited context - the parameters
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Columns - Those Old Playpenitentiary Blues by The Silver Fox
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Long time no see, www.catsandkittens.com; hell of a long time, come to think of it. Now, far be it from me to suggest that people who spend long enough on the Internet to pick over the detritus that litters the scrubby grass verges of this particular Information Super Lay-by don't lead full and busy lives - buying tat on Ebay, looking for dwarf porn
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Columns - Oh My God - They Killed Kenny - You Hirsute, Scottish Bastard! By The Silver Fox
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Against every humanitarian plea, against every civilised instinct, against reason and sense themselves,
they did it.
Ken Bigley is dead; a victim of a struggle about which he (like many of us)
neither wished to participate in nor particularly understood.
His headless corpse
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Columns - Here I Go Again, On The Moan By The Silver Fox
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Crikey, www.catsandkittens ; been a while, hasn't it? How things seem to have changed since
last we got together. I love what some of you have done with your hair, I must say,
and how long has that been there? No, no - it's nice, it really is ... you just don't
see many of them these days, that's
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Columns - I'd Like To Teach The World to Shut The Fuck Up By The Silver Fox
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What with Wimbledon, Euro 2004, Hell's Kitchen, Big Brother 5, and the recent healing of
the lesbian storyline on Emmerdale Farm, some of you may have noticed that
actual news has been a bit thin on the ground lately.
Oh, I'll admit that things have happened - it's not like the international movers and
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Columns - Poor Little Reich Kids By Silver Fox
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Much as it pains me to say it, this week has found me thinking that we may - as right-thinking
people (and if you're not a right-thinking person, what the hell are you doing hanging
around my information super-lay-by? Piss off over to www.you'vebeenstillborn.net where the
likes of you are better
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Columns - Ronald Reagan - An Apology By Silver Fox
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Let's not beat around the bush, www.catsandkittens; last week, some harsh words were said.
I - in an unprecedented and regrettable lapse - allowed my integrity and even-handed,
dispassionate analysis of Things As They Are to become compromised by personal opinion:
there, I've said it. I admit fully that
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Columns - Rupert, Ted and the Phantom Stink of Catpiss By Silver Fox
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According to a recent survey, Britain's international prestige has taken something of a knock of late.
Foreign nationals either living in or visiting dear old Blighty have been asked what they think
of www.mcunitedkingdom.com and many - and not all that varied - have been
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Columns - The Buck Went Thataway By Silver Fox
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Firstly, I'd like to thank anyone who's pointed-and-clicked their way to my little information superhighway lay-by for a second time. It shows an entirely laudable spirit of forgiveness and optimism on your part; a spirit that you should be proud of and one that makes you very special indeed.
To be honest,
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