Oliver Craner

[Murphy]

Fascinating mix and that is some deep study! I’m even more delighted, then,
that my piece basically got a pass.

I lived in Sketty from the age of 4 until we moved to Mumbles when I was 8.

Gwent was a Corona hot spot for a while but it has subsided a bit now; I’ve been working from home in Barry for 10 weeks anyway.

Small world. I get the more insidious nationalist rhetoric and biases, especially in the media. Education sectors can blanket ban debates too, labels get thrown around and nuances ignored, when all you really want is openness but typing it reveals the naivety. Conflict avoidant institutions exert a lot of control these ways.

Not to interject. Will bookmark the link and explore more. Quality writing.

 

[Mr. Tea]

Thanks, Tea.

Part of me feels that way: I don’t have to pitch an angle to dickhead commissioning editors; I don’t have to rely on it to buy food and wine and pay the mortgage. It kills the ambitious, vain part of me, but that gets buried with age, unless it does actually kill you, and I’m burying it rather than let it bury me.

Fair enough.

 

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New:

Alliance of Nations: Powell and Pressburger on Great Britain

Great Britain, as it emerged in the years between the Act of Union and the accession of Queen Victoria, and as it exists today, must be seen both as one relatively new nation, and as an alliance of…

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[DannyL]

The tags on this thread are next level

 

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Yeah, next level of snark and slander.

 

[sufi]

I wrote this long essay just so that Thirdform would stop accusing me of coming from Cardiff and being a Welsh nationalist:

‘The Town Blazing Scarlet’: Swansea’s Blitz

They take you up on Townhill at night to see the furnaces in the pit of the town blazing scarlet, and the parallel crossing lines of lamps…If it is always a city of dreadful day, it is for th…

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that is really lovely, sorry to have been slow on the uptake

 

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No worries, delighted you liked it.

 

[Mr. Tea]

The tags on this thread are next level

Thanks for the reminder, it's about time I finally got myself cleaned up.

 

[luka]

I'd like to use this thread to petition him for a comeback. I want to see him stalking the dissensus Savannah like the Great Beast he is, majestic mane swept back from a noble aristocratic brow. I miss his presence. I don't want a Craner locked in the choon for the day thread refusing to come out like a teenager in his bedroom. I need more Craner. Intelligent serious Craner. Thoughtful profound Craner. Misbehaving libertarian Craner. Saucy aesthete Craner. I hope everyone agrees with me and we can mercilessly love bomb him back into our arms. The forum is lively again. New blood, new energy, it's time for the return of the prodigal son.

This thread was the start of Craners rehabilitation. There was some rocky years but now he's back and the most universally loved and revered member of the dissensus forum.

 

[Mr. Tea]

There was some rocky years but now he's back and the most universally loved and revered member of the dissensus forum.

Well, second-most, but that's implicit, obvs.

 

[luka]

Well I didn't want to massage your ego Tea. But OK. First, Tea, second, but a worthy second, Oliver Craner.

 

[Mr. Tea]

Well I didn't want to massage your ego Tea. But OK. First, Tea, second, but a worthy second, Oliver Craner.

Wasn't talking about me!

 

[luka]

😀

 

[...]

New:

Alliance of Nations: Powell and Pressburger on Great Britain

Great Britain, as it emerged in the years between the Act of Union and the accession of Queen Victoria, and as it exists today, must be seen both as one relatively new nation, and as an alliance of…

guerrapittura.wordpress.com

I try to make peace with nationalism in this essay with the help of Linda Colley and while writing about the following films (in this order):

49th Parallel
One of Our Aircraft is Missing
The Life and Death of Colonel Blimp
Black Narcissus
A Canterbury Tale
Gone to Earth
The Edge of the World
I Know Where I'm Going!
A Matter of Life and Death
The Small Back Room
The Battle of the River Plate
Ill Met By Moonlight
Peeping Tom

 

[luka]

I rememeber me and vim talking on Twitter about how to rehabilitate Craner. We had a kind of summit meeting. We need to get him back and firing. Life's not worth living if we can't have a plugged in energised Craner. This was the intitial result, then we got Corpsey to talk him into the top 100. Mission accomplished.

 

[Mr. Tea]

😀

I mean, well, goes without saying it's kevinoak.

 

[luka]

you getting any traction on the new piece? Powell and Pressberger is a much easier sell than Swansea I would have thought. I've never seen any of their films but i'd like to one day.

 

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you getting any traction on the new piece? Powell and Pressberger is a much easier sell than Swansea I would have thought. I've never seen any of their films but i'd like to one day.

None at all, it's one of the most unpopular ones yet.

Weirdly, the Swansea one did quite well, it got picked up by a lot of local historians and Swansea literary types. When I say quite well, I mean it's been read, like, 228 times, the sort of number Woebot would get on a slow morning, so it's all relative.

 

[luka]

i'd be happy with that.

 

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Sometimes I like to ponder the precise dimensions of my failures.