retrospective turner prize for the british empire at its implausible victorian height :
i. for lord cardigan for modellin the cardigan, after ii. leadin the charge of the light brigade right into the russian guns, then iii. decidin that hand-to-hand[…]

“sooner is better than later”
when i proposed joan of arc: the messenger for the FT Top 100 i had actually only seen the first half, and wouldn’t have wanted to expand much except to say how peerlessly* FAB this half is: OK now i&#[…]

the science of (in around and about) storytelling
if you tell a story and it has a particular effect on you and the ppl you’re telling it to, and you tell it often and the effect is easily and obviously repeatable, as well as useful and benefi[…]

HIDDEN LONDON #2: Bell Green, Catford
erm i don’t know much more about than that it exists – which i didn’t know even this morning – but on my way through it from bromley back to london bridge my TRAIN HIT A TREE!!
branches […]

ja tvoi rabotnik
“LEACHIM was a talking robot that didn’t move. He would ask the children questions and tell them if they had answered right or wrong. If they answered a very important question wrong, for example, about violence, LEACHIM[…]

ja tvoi sluga
(since i know she won’t publicise it herself)[…]

on the LATE (and silly) ARRIVAL of the G.F.NEWMAN-NESS of DUB DOB DEEB
ok DDD is i. going to be sacked fr shaggin a defendent, yeah stick it to the man hurrah! oh wait…) ii. takin his corrupt brother-in-law (=home secretary) down (w.his dad-t[…]

THIS MEANS YIYOU!
viz it is LESS THAN A WEEK till chinese new year – passing out of the horrible year of the monkey into the generally better-favoured year of the rooster – so here is what to EAT: “sweet steamed glutinous rice pud[…]

QUOTE OF THE DAY!!
“I loathe people who keep dogs. They are cowards who haven’t got the guts to bite people themselves” ? dave q August Strindberg (1849-1912), Swedish vagabond (?) playwright
haha sometimes i totally heart fact-ch[…]

oliphaunts vs mumins: WHO WILL DIE?
in the interests of havin a social life clearly mumin wins, in the sense that to watch 10 hours-worth* of DVD-mumins IN GERMAN at starry’s house w.various pals = bettah than stayin in and watchin ep3 of the […]