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News At A Glance #15

Friday, July 8, 2022

On Georgia(n)s, music, and the state of education. — For The Emigre

Filed in Journalism, NEWS AT A GLANCE | Also tagged Belarusians, books, drink, education, employment, Falklands Radio, fish, Georgia, humour, Islam, Karl Marx, marriage, Michelle Donelan, mobility, Nelson Evening Mail, novels, Pakistan, racism, Reuben Harwood, Russians, sex, South Africans, the apocalypse, The Emigre, the UK, theremins, Turkey, Ukrainians | Comments (0)

Insecurities fraud

Tuesday, March 1, 2022

Get Rich or Lie Trying: Ambition and Deceit in the New Influencer Economy by Symeon Brown, Atlantic Books, £16.99 . Born when we were born, and embarking on writing ‘careers’ (LOL) just as the web ripped the financial guts out of the paper industry, my idea of a good time is to phone my best […]

Filed in Journalism, review | Also tagged 50 Cent, Atlantic Books, Black Lives Matter, books, Cardi B, Channel 4, China, Clubhouse, Covid, crime, cryptocurrency, dropshipping, Facebook, fashion, Fashion Nova, finance, influencing, Instagram, Jordan Belfort, Journalism, Kylie Jenner, LimeWire, LinkedIn, livestreaming, music, non-fiction, plastic surgery, pyramid schemes, rap, religion, social media, Soulja Boy, Symeon Brown, Texas, The Critic, The Wall Street Journal, TikTok, Tottenham, Turkey, YouTube | Comments (0)

NEWS AT A GLANCE

Monday, December 4, 2017

. One-fiftieth of the inhabitants of Spain are nobles. — The Nelson Evening Mail, October 4 1906 . The beheading of the sperm whale is a scientific anatomical feat, upon which experienced whale surgeons very much pride themselves. Great lips take hydration and balls. Pease pudding has been flagged up by airport security on more than one […]

Filed in Journalism, NEWS AT A GLANCE | Also tagged airports, anatomy, asbestos, Bognor Regis, cetology, China, Christmas, class, cricket, Diane Abbott, dogs, Donald Trump, Dr Gregory House, gorillas, Nelson Evening Mail, Nigel Farage, pease pudding, politics, Richard II, sea-faring, security, sex, Spain, Spanish, surgery, Swedish, Theresa May, Torbay, translation, TV, water | Comments (0)

23.10.12

Tuesday, October 23, 2012

0930 Retweet Homeric ‘Rain of blood’ detail (courtesy unknown female) 1100 Rewrite Rupert Brooke one-liner, ref. Danish political TV series 1130 Post arrives, incl. new Johns Hopkins Iliad translation 1315 Stanford’s: 1 x scratch-off gold world map 1400 To barracks for Afghanistan mobilisation briefing

Filed in Non-fictions | Also tagged Afghanistan, books, Denmark, diary, Homer, Iliad, Johns Hopkins, maps, micro-non-fiction, Poetry, Rupert Brooke, TV | Comments (0)

theASHtray, vol.11

Saturday, April 14, 2012

An Easter holiday special, in which we take in Exeter’s Royal Albert Memorial Museum, Ancient Egypt, the Grand Tour, stuffed birds, Congolese objets d’art, camera-less photography, amateur collectors, wunderkammern/cabinets of curiosity, Bruce Chatwin, Nicky Hirst, madeleine moments, Broomhill Sculpture Park, sculpture in general, Ronald A. Westerhuis, Carol Peace, Jake Rusby, Mike Roles, Dartington Crystal, Swedes, […]

Filed in column, Journalism | Also tagged Ancient Egypt, art, birds, books, Britain's Got Talent, Broomhill Sculpture Park, Bruce Chatwin, Carol Peace, Dartington Crystal, Exeter, Gnome Reserve, Greil Marcus, Jake Rusby, jazz, Jenny Diski, madeleine moments, Mike Roles, music, Nicky Hirst, photography, Poetry, Ronald A. Westerhuis, Royal Albert Memorial Museum, sculpture, Swedes, the Congo, The Doors, theartsdesk, travel, TV | Comments (0)

On tennis, Twitter and telly

Monday, February 13, 2012

Out-takes plus trailer for my forthcoming Geoff Dyer Q&A. — For Guernica

Filed in interview, Journalism | Also tagged Geoff Dyer, literature, tennis, TV | Comments (0)

If I Twittered

Saturday, August 14, 2010

Then I would be: In LRB bkshp lking @ Rob Lwl & wrried tht post-doc types cn c my Playboy pnts.

Filed in Poetry | Also tagged London Review of Books, Playboy, Robert Lowell | Comments (1)