The third and final US presidential debate has been and gone whilst I was soundly asleep. I have looked at various reactions - ranging from Republican blogges to left-wing UK newspapers - but this remains the funniest take I’ve read:
::30 minutes into the debate, tension has increased as each candidate has perfectly parried each others [...]
Nothing says GEEK quite as much as a grown woman shouting “Byron! Byron, you idiots!” at University Challenge. Whilst knitting a jumper.
I like many things, but there are not many things that I love. I definitely love incunabula (books printed between 1455 and 1500) and early modern period printed books. Yesterday I went to Edinburgh to look at some very old printed books from Scotland. I was not disappointed.
I have long been interested in and worked [...]
I managed to spend yesterday afternoon in very pleasant company. Whilst the rainstorm nearly flooded Glasgow, we had hot chocolate, listened to jazz, curled up in chairs and knitted whilst discussing the US presidential election. I appreciated the afternoon all the more because it made me reflect on far I have come this past year. [...]
Jean-Marie Gustave Le Clezio? I feel so insular (and Anglophone/-phile) but I had to go look him up.
Lengthy discussion on why the US hasn’t received a Nobel Prize in Literature for some time (parts of the discussion isn’t terribly well-informed but some people do make great points). The Literary Saloon weighs in with a [...]
Some days there are too many things I want to write about: the Othering of Barack Obama by the GOP and whether it is an entirely successful discursive strategy, the idea of knitting as a subversive feminist activity, the question of identity and the Self in blogging (I touched upon it yesterday but I have [...]
Worse, Palin’s routine attacks on the media have begun to spill into ugliness. In Clearwater, arriving reporters were greeted with shouts and taunts by the crowd of about 3,000. Palin then went on to blame Katie Couric’s questions for her “less-than-successful interview with kinda mainstream media.” At that, Palin supporters turned on reporters in the [...]
Yesterday someone I knew roughly fifteen years ago wrote to me via Facebook. She asked me if I were dying because she had noticed my status updates on Facebook (and quite possibly this blog) and was, I quote, sooo worried about me!!!!!!!!!
One thing which absolutely fascinates me about blogging and, by extension, social networking on [...]
Things seem to fall into place today as you’ll find from these links and stories.
Rhi wrote:
I received an email from an old internet friend that I’d fallen out of touch with several years ago. After adding each other to the key social networking places (as you do) we discovered that since we last spoke, we [...]
This is highly amusing. It is an edited transcript of Newcastle football club interim manager Joe Kinnear’s first official press conference yesterday:
JK: Which one is Simon Bird [Daily Mirror's north-east football writer]?
SB: Me.
JK: You’re a c*nt.
SB: Thank you.
JK: Which one is Hickman [Niall, football writer for the Express]? You are out of order. Absolutely [...]
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