Goth when it really meant something, or something — flipping through a French-language collection of Gustave Dore’s work, part biography and part sampling of his many efforts, led me to conclude I really need to find a good English langua[…]

So near and yet so far — growing up near the Mexican border is something that for a lot of folks automatically suggests ‘rite of passage.’ I wasn’t right ON the border but the whole idea of some other place just right nearby &[…]

i. note that no actual night or sleep to speak of intervene between day zero and day one = i am “awake” from 2.45am to midnight-ish ii. n’mes is a tiny small roman airport to a tiny small roman city once long ago but no longer the c[…]

BLOGS GROW UP! :(
probably there’s other mainstream American Style Bigwigs caved before wolcott – ex of the village voice years back, then of vanity fair, more recently also the new yorker – but he crystallises the coming problem p[…]

‘Greatest’ ‘Greatest Chatshow Moments’ ‘Moments’
1) The camera was on the presenter from the start but took about a minute to inch slowly forward enough so we could actually see her face properly, revealing it to b[…]

Now I know that Paula Radcliffe is not in herself an Olympic event, though the amount of accidental P.R. news I stumbled across puts a lie to this. She got more coverage than any of our winners, and the 10,000 metres (surely one of the dullest races […]

New Scientist answers crucial question
Finally tackling the urban (?rural) myth that is the great green potato debate. The philosophy of which was discussed earlier here. Is this the definitive answer and does this justify green potato-ism? Arguably […]

Why do people do those lists on Amazon. You know the ones: Ten Great Reads, Ten Books Worth The Wait. I guess there is a degree of vanity involved, and what is the web if not the home of vanity publishing.
Nevertheless how about this for a list. Grea[…]

Thursday 26th August
This missive was written in my parents place in Spain, and for suspense value, shall let out on a day by day basis. My parents like the Olympics. It is hence much harder to avoid, as they have the power over the TV remote. Nevert[…]

It’s funny that Tom’s travel writing malaise inspired this month’s Blog 7 theme, because my love of travel writing is precisely what piqued my interest in the blog. That’s not to say that I disagree that the “travel writ[…]