Stuff and what we call it:
the old ones are the best – tin, gold, diamond – and that’s not just bcz they’ve been around a long time and we got used to them: it’s also bcz ppl at the head of the stuff-naming queue got to[…]

is it tempting fate to delightedly yell “haha in yr face orthodox medical science”?
Ans = yes, since there’s a lot still to be surmounted and my mum remains fairly ill BUT she regained consciousness unexpectedly on monday night an[…]

elephant art[…]

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[…]

since his first screenplays, abt the IRA ronan bennett has assiduously mined the “political outlaw” seam, the borderline between fanatical idealism and crime
and the hamburg cell, an unscandalised and non-demonising C4 telefilm abt the […]

let’s call it rotoscoped zizek
plainly i am pro all the scooby doo movies (at least till such time as i have to sit through one of them, perhaps), but it occurred to me as i sat watching an ancient ep of the cartoon last week (while waiting fo[…]

i had a little model blue bird but – possibly typically – it was a model of the car his dad drove not the boat that killed him: and (though we didn’t have a TV till the year after) i remember very clearly the news of his death on co[…]

hurrah for senility!!
one of the nice thingz abt sharing lifespace w.other people is being able to spring treats and little surprises on one another now and then – and ordinarily this is quite hard if you live on yr own, but today i came home […]

the victorians were very extremely weird part 3567256
i sort of maintain an interest for professional reasons, and also bcz they helped create a pathway into the golden age of fantastical children’s lit and illustration, but is there a SINGLE […]