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Sehr Gutenberg

Wednesday, May 16, 2018

On movable type, the Internet, and almost every damn thing in between. — For The Oldie

Filed in correspondence, Journalism | Also tagged blogging, Germany, Gutenberg, information, Latin, Mainz, marginalia, monks, movable type, printing, Project Gutenberg, publishing, religion, scriptoria, Sellar and Yeatman, Stephan Füssel, TASCHEN, technology, the Bible, the Göttingen Library, the internet, The Oldie, Umberto Eco, UNESCO, vellum | Comments (0)

Spies like us?

Tuesday, May 8, 2018

A less-than-Smiley response to John le Carré. — For The Oldie

Filed in correspondence, Journalism | Also tagged George Smiley, John le Carré, lexicons, London, maps, memoir, MI5, MI6, Penguin, spies, The Oldie, walking | Comments (0)

NEWS AT A GLANCE

Monday, April 2, 2018

. There are more Jews in New York than there are in Germany, Great Britain, France, Italy, Spain, and Switzerland put together. They worship in 37 synagogues. Every fifth person belongs to the family of Abraham. — The Nelson Evening Mail, December 1 1906 . Coleraine Blackjack is the cheapest porter in the world. Thomas Nelson […]

Filed in Journalism, NEWS AT A GLANCE | Also tagged anatomy, Australia, Ben Affleck, Britain, Bruca Chatwin, Canada, Coleraine, Colombo, computers, crime, Cuba, death, Devon, drink, East Africa, emojis, flags, France, Germany, health, hyenas, Italy, Judaism, London, Microsoft, money, Nelson E, New York, Northern Ireland, philosophy, religion, River Dart, South Africa, Spain, Sri Lanka, Switzerland, tattoos, Thomas Nelson, West Africa, West Dart, Wittgenstein | Comments (0)

An honest pisstake

Friday, September 8, 2017

Pissing Figures: 1280–2014 by Jean-Claude Lebensztejn (transl. Jeff Nagy) David Zwirner Books, 168pp, £11.95 . From a Cimabue cherub to Szydlowski/-lowska’s Lenin, simply everyone is pissing. In pen and ink, paint on canvas, plaster, wood, stone, polymer, block prints, engraving, chamber pots, aquatints, dishware, film, manuscripts, inlay, public statuary, trick-photography, and in a Japanese video […]

Filed in Journalism, review | Also tagged Abraham Bosse, Andrew Lincoln, art, Bartosz Szydlowski, Christ, Cimabue, criticism, Cupid, David Zwirner Books, history, Japan, Jean-Claude Lebensztejn, Jeff Nagy, Jeffrey Lebowski, Lenin, Malgorzata Szydlowska, Mars, Michelangelo, Paula Radcliffe, sex, Snow White, The Amorist, the French, Titian, urine | Comments (0)

NEWS AT A GLANCE

Monday, March 27, 2017

. A lady of limited means residing in the country says that her garden clothes herself and her daughter. — The Nelson Evening Mail, August 31 1906 . There is a typo in Punjabi birth certificates. Since January 2013, a Russian cruise ship has been drifting unmanned in the North Atlantic. Toxic trolls are pushing Vicky […]

Filed in Journalism, NEWS AT A GLANCE | Also tagged Americans, coffee, Concrete Society, drink, farts, food, health, horticulture, India, insanity, Jan Ladislav Dussek, kettles, London, masturbation, Mother's Day, music, Nelson Evening Mail, novels, officialdom, Richard Dawkins, Russia, sea-faring, the Atlantic, the Punjab, tigers, trolls, typos | Comments (0)

NEWS AT A GLANCE

Monday, March 13, 2017

. Fifty-one per cent of the foreigners in England live in London. — The Nelson Evening Mail, July 28 1906 . International rugby union referee Nigel Owens wears Superman pants while he’s officiating. The Iraqi army is about to defeat Islamic State. There’s no playbook for how to be a guy. In 1947 a United States […]

Filed in Journalism, NEWS AT A GLANCE | Also tagged Alexander Hamilton, America, antiques, Authors CC, BBC, Congress, cooking, cricket, Dickens, England, flora, Hong Kong, horse-racing, immigration, insects, Iraq, Islam, Journalism, law, London, men, milk, Nazism, Nelson Evening Mail, Nigel Owens, odds, Portland, rugby, Stalin, Superman, underwear, Victoria Derbyshire, Wagner | Comments (0)

NEWS AT A GLANCE

Monday, February 20, 2017

. In many parts of Africa gin is the only currency. — The Nelson Evening Mail, January 6 1909 . James Ramsay MacDonald became Prime Minister of Great Britain three times. Water is a better conductor of sound than air. A good hockey player plays where the puck is. A great hockey player plays where the […]

Filed in Journalism, NEWS AT A GLANCE | Also tagged acting, Africa, agriculture, Britain, crime, drink, fishing, geography, horses, ice hockey, law, Led Zeppelin, Liechtenstein, liquorice, Paul Auster, physics, poets, political correctness, politics, Ramsay MacDonald, Ravel, Socrates, Teletubbies, the Swiss, unicorns, virgins, waste management | Comments (0)

‘your broken heart’

Thursday, February 9, 2017

for Rich Hardcastle y ….you ….y ….Yeah yo ….you ….yo ….You’re you ….You’re ….you ….your your ….You’re ….your ….Yours your[ ] ….Amazon.co.uk ….mum’s ….cruel your b ….ballbag ….b ….bezzies your br ….br ….brothers ….brother your bro ….bro ….brothers ….brother your brok ….brok ….broken ….book your broke ….broken ….broke ….bloke your broken ….broken-down ….broken ….broken-hearted your […]

Filed in Poetry | Also tagged Amazon, brothers, Found poetry, health, mothers, phone poems, Rich Hardcastle, Sony Xperia, The Pikey Laureate | Comments (0)

NEWS AT A GLANCE

Monday, January 30, 2017

. Pineapples are so plentiful in Natal at certain seasons that they are not worth carting to market, and so are often given to pigs. — The Nelson Evening Mail, September 27 1906 . The French king Louis XIII was known as ‘the Just’ because he was born under the sign of the Libra. Maxwell […]

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Intellectual MOT

Sunday, October 16, 2016

Some thoughts on the enquiring mind, slang, and judging a book by its cover – in correspondence with Tia Goonaratna. — For The Sunday Leader

Filed in interview, Journalism | Also tagged Angela Carter, Christopher Hitchens, Churchill, dictionaries, history, intellectuals, literature, Mongols, Peter Frankopan, slang, Sri Lanka, The Sunday Leader, Tia Goonaratna, Waterstone's | Comments (0)