Spent a few moments fixing a paragraph from The Independent’s editorial on the BBC’s Russell Brand/Jonathan Ross/Andrew Sachs affair:
Now there can be little no doubt that the routine was coarse, juvenile and vindictive, and the language used in respect of the grand-daughter was obscene. But it is precisely this edginess, this pushing of boundaries coarse, [...]...
When in the US recently I had a vague memory of a book I had thought I’d at least take a good look at, if not buy, and you know how it is when you’ve just finished reading a good book on holiday - I’d just put down ‘The Looming Tower: Al Qaeda and the [...]...
This time in the US (more of which later) the hire car had an aux-in so we didn’t have to battle local FM stations with the iTrip to listen to music as we drove (I’d booked a car with satellite for the fun of listening to lunatic talk radio but the fun wore off pretty [...]...
a story in this week’s Time magazine is being called the definitive Barack Obama puff piece…According to political analysts, the Time piece features the most lack-of-depth reporting on Obama ever published…”I’m not quite sure how he intends to turn around the economy or get us out of Iraq,” said California resident Geoff Mills, an ardent [...]...
The Real Tuesday Weld - The Day Before You Came
The Abba song, The Day Before You Came, covered by The Real Tuesday......
Pinky via cloudsoup June 15th, 2008 at 10:09
‘Pinky’, another flower photo by......
Duane Hanson (Wikipedia, Duane Hanson) was an American artist known for his hyperrealistic sculptures - you can see a few of them in the Saatchi gallery, London. I found them irresistible from the first time I saw them; irresistible but slightly unsettling, which might have something to to with the Uncanny Valley, that sudden revulsion...
After I found an excerpt from Jean-Phillippe Rameau’s Les Indes Galantes I played it repeatedly for several days until Helen bought the DVDs of the William Christie-directed production by Les Arts Florissants. Patricia Petibon is magnetic in the Fourth Entree, Les Sauvages; what a voice.
I read an suggestion that the depiction of the ’savages’, Les [...]...
