October 2009
36 posts
A little bridal music to start the day.
“People come here and drink too much; they perhaps take Viagra or other drugs, then get very excited. Thai women are beautiful. They are much more beautiful than most western women. In this kind of…
The memorable architecture of New Zealand’s National Library.
I sometimes think that when I die there should be two graves dug: the first would be the usual kind of size, say 2 feet by 7, but the other would be much, much larger. The gravestone should read: ME…
A Review of The Star Qualities, which includes Glenda Jackson’s “display your diamonds” as good advice on how to make an entrance.
My former student Lagi linked to this and now I have it as an earworm. When you’re a bride, sentimental love songs are everywhere!
We drank wine and ate lunch and we drank cocktails and ate dinner and in between we went to see the animals and birds.
All things being equal, it is to this sentimental ditty that I shall walk down the aisle.
There’s not a movie on Earth that wouldn’t be drastically improved by the addition of zombies.
“When you write or publish an essay that makes sweeping pronouncements about the human experience–particularly one that uses the first-person plural throughout–you run the risk of having other members of the human race disagree with you.”
- Mr. Tom Scocca, not letting the Tom side down.
While I do not particularly care for the phrase “the human race”, this is a useful point o’ style.
You can attack your interlocutor’s beliefs, premises, processes of reasoning and conclusions, but you’d better not attack their written expression!
Marsden-funded research into phylogenetics in 2009. Wrote Darwin: “cuidado”, be careful.
Philip Clairmont and the Jackson Pollock article in Life Magazine.
Thought of this track after reading this blog post: http://overthenet.blogspot.com/2009/10/paper-tiger.html
I am trying something new here: aggregating most of my links from the various elsewheres to one place. Call it FriendFeed but with a picture of Robin Hyde in the right-hand column. All the meaty stuff is, of course, still over at my main site, but I do not wish to miss out on the tumblelove.
Harry Hutton observes the Berlin police force.
Rumours of a new GW album send me back to listen hopefully to old tracks.
Mick Harvey sings Serge Gainsbourg.
