Monthly Archives: October 2006
Mmm… etamorphosis
I went to see the Michael Clark Company show Mmm… at the Barbican last night. It was great in all sorts of ways, including the fact that it left me unable to describe how it made me feel or what … Continue reading
BBC NEWS | England | Nottinghamshire | Protesters unfurl anti-M1 banners
Some anti-road people hung banners from bridges on the M1 today saying www.nowideningm1.org.uk. When I saw a picture of one it looked to me like it said Now Widen M1. Don’t they know you can put capitals in a URL? … Continue reading
Atheist Fundamentalist
This damming review, by Terry Eagleton in the London Review of Books, of Richard Dawkins’ new book The God Delusion is so extremely well-written, so painfully excoriating, that it deserves to be read by every literate English speaker on the … Continue reading
The Pope eats rope
Am I imagining it or does the Pope really sound just like Peter Lorre? Pope clip
Bad taste, good radio?
I was mixing a programme for a slot called Analysis on World Service radio last week. The programme was written by a BBC Correspondent called Kim Ghattas who works in the Middle East and it was about the changing security situation in … Continue reading
X-RATED – Xmas Shopping
What would you think about someone who had a 70s porn film poster up on their wall? A bit tacky, maybe just a bit shallow, perhaps they just don’t think very much about what things mean? But then there’s no … Continue reading
Horsey, horsey
About a month ago the daughters came running in all excited, trying to tear me away from my computer to come and look at something amazing in the street. It was a vaulting horse, parked like a car in the … Continue reading
New Boots and… well, new boots.
I’ve been looking for some new boots for months. My brother’s partner gave me my old ones several years ago. She was the wardrobe mistress on 28 Days Later and had a couple of pairs of Jim’s boots left over … Continue reading
Veils
The BBC has produced an excellent guide to the several degrees of headscarf that different Muslim women wear. I had a good search through the sites of the Muslim Council of Britain, the Islamic Human Rights Commission and the Protect … Continue reading