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Wigfall windfall
I haven’t read Clare Wigfall’s short stories, but with a bio like this, she just had to become a writer, didn’t she?:“Wigfall was born in London, but spent the first years of her childhood under the liberal sway of late 1970s California. She returned to England for most of her schooling, but her vital early…
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It’s Woody’s birthday
Woody Guthrie was born today, and I suppose it’s kind of appropriate that he shares his birthday with Bastille day.
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Pig in Boots
As a vegetarian, I can enjoy this with unalloyed pleasure. If you are a carnivore – how can you eat this?
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The Meaning of Recognition
If you go, and you should, regularly, to the Clive James website, you’ll now find, in the links on the Cultural Amnesia page, a link to my review. I’m chuffed at that, and so I bring you, by commodious vicus of recirculation back to Topsyturvydom.
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Singing in the Baths
To Victoria Baths, star of BBC’s Restoration programme, and also star, I now know, of Life on Mars, for which it provided some atmospheric locations. Our object was to see and hear the Clerks, best known for their performances of medieval and renaissance polyphony – so why are we at the baths? Because, dear reader,…
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On this day…
Encyclopedia Britannica has made all of its content available to bloggers and other “web publishers”. Which is nice. It means I can link to their “On the Day” feature, which today is about the Warsaw Ghetto Uprising. There was a certain resonance in this, as nestling in my inbox today was the latest “Stop the…
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Make this man the DG!
How many millions of words, what seas of verbiage, what torrents of tosh have been expended on the problem of public service broadcasting? And to what end? Into the debate steps Stephen Fry, and in a speech of forty minutes absolutely nails the problem. He was invited to make a contribution to the current inquiry…
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Procrastination
This is a fabulous little film. And most of us will recognise most of these techniques… Thanks to Mister Roy for the tip.
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Morphing Cats
Over at the Muddy Island, Juliet found a fascinating video showing 500 years of women in Western Art. I flippantly suggested that there should be a cat version, and, this being the internet, there is one of course- thanks for finding it Juliet – brilliant. Oh, and please sponsor Juliet on her race for life…
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The best bookshop in the world?
Well, possibly. I certainly would like to compare it to some of my favourites.