I’ve been following the whole Ross-Brand fiasco story in the media with some interest, as Brand is a common topic of conversation among my peer group. Only last week a friend and I were watching him on TV and agreed that he was struggling. His entire show was based around dissecting untrue news stories about his [...]
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[...] How do people survive in this city without air conditioning? It’s almost the end of October and still it’s too hot to sleep without the chugging lurching air conditioning unit on all night. In the end I turned mine off around 2am as the noise was so loud I couldn’t sleep anyway, but then I just [...] I’m off to Hong Kong and Shanghai, via the unspeakably glamourous staging post of Gloucester, where I am attending a very modern, multicultural baby naming ceremony (none of that christening malarkey, oh no). If the visa wallahs allow me into the PRC I’ll be doing some training workshops with writers in preparation for the first stage of [...] Anyone with an interest in seeing how sex education is taught to British teenagers can watch my friend Alice doing what she does best here. She says the kids are normally more vocal, but they were intimidated by the bloody great TV camera and wouldn’t say anything. Don’t blame them. I wouldn’t want to be on the [...] I’ve been titillating my insomnia with a local history book kindly provided by my dad. It’s called A Salmon for the Schoolhouse and charts the day to day concerns of a 19th century schoolmaster in the village where I grew up. Surprisingly, it seems that schoolmasters of yore were just as plagued by HM Inspectorate as [...] I woke up this morning standing by a recycling facility somewhere in rural France, feeding quail egg boxes into the cardboard bin and squinting in the strong sunlight. As I drove away in the car, I started singing this. Letting the days [...] Excellent post about intellectual property and why certain leviathans of the publishing industry are light years behind others in terms of the way they think about copyright. I’ve been wondering just why it is that people who write software are more likely to embrace the open source mentality than people who write ‘text’ books. When you get [...] Back in 1998 I was at university studying, among other things, philosophy. The philosophy department, perhaps aptly, was a dusty, rather antiquated place. At times it seemed to me like an old folk’s home for the terminally eccentric. Most of its long serving members were heading towards their dotage and were well advanced (it seemed to [...] I’ve decamped to the Dordogne for some respite care, and to get away from credit crunchiness. Since Johnny in particular is jaded by all this talk of technology, I’ll give you some pure, unadulterated nature for a change. I don’t know what colour those leaves are, but I love it. Tonight’s dessert. I could look at the view all [...] |
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