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The party was already thinning when I arrived and the remaining partygoers looked up at me with sudden hope in …
Tag Archives: Satire
Email Concerning an Encounter with the Ningen (2/2).
[Jiro Matsumoto’s first email is here. Ed.] Dear Tycienski-san. My last email related how Haruka, my girlfriend and crewmate aboard …
Museum Review: Vikings, The Untold Story.
The Vikings were, as everybody knows, deranged rampaging barbarians. They would sweep down on to unsuspecting monasteries, brandishing their battleaxes, …
The Hobbit: A Tale for Our Time.
[Scene: Bag End in Hobbiton. Bilbo Baggins (Martin Freeman) is padding around his front porch. There is a knock on …
Email Concerning an Encounter with the Ningen (1/2).
Dear Tycienski-san. It has been a number of years since your editor James first made contact with my crewmate Miho. …
The Edinburgh Institute of Street Compliments.
[Tychy is pleased to unveil the Edinburgh Institute of Street Compliments. This new programme will complete the important work of …
Tychy@ the Fringe: Coalition.
Robert Khan and Tom Salinsky have tried their hands at writing and their first play is “Coalition,” which is presently …
Tychy@ the Fringe: Right Honourable Member.
There are a host of productions knocking about this year’s Fringe which concern themselves with how ghastly the political class …
Tychy in the Park.
Tori awoke at midday in an unfamiliar tent, with a million punks moshing together in her head, behind her brows …
A Tribute to Edinburgh’s Summer.
The rain had been falling steadily for over three days now. It sounded rather like an avant-garde orchestra which had …
This Is The Country You Live In.
His daughter, Haley, was to blame. Haley was only three, however, and it is generally considered unreasonable to blame a …
Christian Theology and the Easter Bunny.
The first missionaries to set foot in Anglo-Saxon England attempted to render Christmas and the celebration of Christ’s resurrection satisfactory …
Apocalypse of the Fringe.
It had been a long day and we were half way through another, rather undistinguished production of Hamlet, when I …
The Little Fascist.
I had not spoken with my old friend Charlotte for over two years, and, with a mild surprise at how …
Rolling on with the Bull.
For the first two weeks of the summer, Sighthill Academy puts aside its daily troubles and the whole school embarks …
