This week's feature will be my last post for the Dashing Fellows. On one hand my job has become more demanding. On the other I want to concentrate on my fiction, which you can read here. I' ...
Read more »When one thinks of Amsterdam's pleasures, the cliched view runs to two kinds. This stereotype is disappointing because the port city offers a great range of delicious and interesting food. ...
Read more »This is the music which made me sit up and take notice. I chose seven because I couldn't come up with ten nor could I cut it down to five. I'll concede that this is a very subjective ...
Read more »Christmas and saccharine go together. Much of the food is literally sweet and then there are the films, TV specials and cards. Worst of all is the music. Not even a po-mo ironic perspective can make ...
Read more »Since the WikiLeaks' data dump, various news outlets have been putting different spins on the event. They will continue to do so since Assange was arrested yesterday. The more sane are ...
Read more »Much has been said of Katherine Blamire and Jessica Davies' combination of gritty blues and English folk. Concretely, this means whispered, husky, ethereal vocals, over guitars bright, ...
Read more »It is billed as the 'World's Simplest Phone', a phone that makes calls and nothing more, no SMS, no camera, no giant display, no opportunity to check your email or FaceBook. John's Phone has to be ...
Read more »Poetry and poets in film rarely work. The final piece is either too earnest, too precious, or frankly, too dull. Film-makers try desperately to hammer the life and work into narrative mould. ...
Read more »Yesterday's student march is further proof that the Brits are anything but a sober nation. Twice more than the estimated 25 000 apparently turned up and further action is promised. In the Guardian ...
Read more »A few weeks ago, a few journalist responded to the French strikes with the usual clichés of Gallic intransigence versus Anglo reserve. Anne Applebaum wrote: “And thus did everyone, ...
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"also check this out -- all the stuff obama had to deal with in his first term http://www.newyorker.com/reporting/2012/01/30/120130fa_fact_lizza?currentPage=all "
avp"a gingrich / obama race would definitely be uglier, but there's still no way gingrich wins. "
avp"We shouldn't be funding the Catholic school system. If they're going to take their orders from the Vatican and Catholic dogma, then they don't deserve our money."
C"Michael Fassbender could have been nominated for Jane Eyre or A Desperate Measure very plausibly but that he was overlooked for Shame was one of those imbecilic outrages that we've had to become a numb to with the Academy. You really must see that film ..."
Salem
" The Conservative Government was sued in the Supreme Court for the illegal age of sexual consent increase as it was a direct violation of the Canadian Charter of Rights and Freedoms and the Constitution. A book about the court case that remains ..."
Octaevius Altair