I love football. Such an admission is not so strange at this time of year nor given that it is the world's most popular ball game. What's strange is that it combines the two things I care least about ...
Read more »It'd been a while since this band had been on the road, and looking around the room, I guessed most of the audience saw them on the the last tour. What was less certain was if they'd seen the band in ...
Read more »About a month ago, two friends and I saw a documentary called "Alive and Well in Prague." The film followed the lives of four expats, three men and a woman. As expats ourselves, we were a little ...
Read more »Nothing prepared me for the Czech Easter tradition - even when I knew about it in advance. While at university, I worked in a restaurant. One of my colleagues was Czech. During our shift one ...
Read more »If we accept Harold Bloom's view, Don Delillo stands with Philip Roth, Cormac McCarthy and Thomas Pynchon as having produced a canonical work and being one of the leading American novelists of his ...
Read more »The Czech Republic's contender for Best Foreign Film is a dark and personal look at the country's occupation by Nazi Germany. Eschewing Hollywood's black and white approach, Protector delves into the ...
Read more »I'm probably the last person who should comment on the Winter Olympics. For a start I'm an Australian and Australia has a fairly poor record at the colder games. (This year being something of an ...
Read more »I'm not alone when I say that Salinger's work affected me in a profound way. Reading Catcher in the Rye set the course for my life. It wasn't just that it dealt with being young. There were plenty of ...
Read more »What was one of the most eagerly anticipated literary releases of the year, if not the decade, has been one of the most generally disappointing. The posthumous release of The Original of Laura, the ...
Read more »If The Original of Laura was not how Nabokov wanted to present himself, here is the chance to hear him in his own words. Note that even in conversation, the index cards were present. ...
Read more »"can't argue this one! Is that Dirk and the Canadian Superstar?"
Big Max"I don't see what the big hub bub is. Really I don't."
C"I read this story on the subway this morning. Crazy story. I side with the cops."
Kai"Criminalization of HIV - Can't a person keep his HIV status confidential and share only with doctor, partner and a few close people? Wouldn't that allow one to side-step the whole stigma of being an HIV positive individual? How different would the ..."
John
"Girls do not like guys like these. Maybe YOU like guys like these."
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