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Robert Rea

London

Freelance Writer and Producer at Freelance

Journalist, formerly BBC News for many years, now writer/producer for hire. Chelsea fan, reluctant runner (see blog below), celebrity queue-er. Went viral once

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  • 1 month ago | southwestreview.com | Robert Rea

    Por Sylvia Georgina Estrada“Electrizante”, “mítico”, “un verdadero poeta”, así han descrito, a lo largo de los años, al estadounidense Frank Stanford. Frank fue un hombre peculiar, capaz de deslumbrar a los maestros de la Universidad de Arkansas para luego dejar los estudios universitarios en pos de la escritura y de la vida.

  • 1 month ago | southwestreview.com | Elizabeth Nelson |Robert Rea

    By Elizabeth NelsonWhat is the High Lonesome sound? Most historians associate the coinage with the music of the bluegrass titan Bill Monroe, whose keening twang and tales of love both hard-earned and hard-lost do seem to represent a kind of genre of one. But if the notion of the High Lonesome sound is meaningfully inextricable from Monroe’s music, it has persisted since he’s been a long time gone. Charlie Daniels released an album called High Lonesome in 1976, and Randy Travis did the same in 1991.

  • 2 months ago | southwestreview.com | Robert Rea

    Let Us Now Praise Giant Men is a basketball column by Liam Baranauskas. This edition is about fantasies, voids, assholes, and the Minnesota Timberwolves. I was on the subway when my friend Dan texted photos of me and Randy on a day trip, accompanied by the message “RIP.” I wasn’t sure at first if the obvious meaning was correct. I hadn’t seen or spoken to Randy in a long time.

  • Nov 13, 2024 | southwestreview.com | J. R. Ramakrishnan |Robert Rea

    By J. R. Ramakrishnan On the New Orleans neutral ground where Conti crosses Basin Street stands a statue of the Mexican president Benito Juárez. The bronze monument, a gift of the Mexican government, bears the inscription “Peace is based on the respect of the right of others” (“El respeto al derecho ajeno es la paz”), from Juárez’s manifesto declared upon defeating the Second Mexican Empire in 1867.

  • Nov 7, 2024 | southwestreview.com | Travis Woods |Robert Rea

    By Travis WoodsIn the final scene of Blood Simple, the noir-pulped 1984 debut of desperation (criminal, sexual, rural) from the Coen brothers, the film’s leisure-suited detective and part-time hitman lies gunshot and bleeding beneath a bathroom sink.

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Robert Rea
Robert Rea @robertrea
21 Apr 25

RT @JasonReidUK: Nothing can prepare you for the witnesses

Robert Rea
Robert Rea @robertrea
21 Apr 25

“Look forward to being there”??? I mean.. what the fuck… he does actually know what a funeral is, right? That it’s not a party?

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Melania and I will be going to the funeral of Pope Francis, in Rome. We look forward to being there! From Donald Trump Truth Social 04/21/25 03:58 PM

Robert Rea
Robert Rea @robertrea
20 Apr 25

Aged well..

Robert Rea
Robert Rea @robertrea

I said in my Chelsea mates’ WhatsApp group yesterday that we will a) lose today and b) finish below Fulham. I see nothing so far that changes my opinion. We are a poor side getting worse by the game