July 2011
1 post
April 2010
3 posts
“Pole dancing is grim and I don’t see anything empowering about learning...”
– Actually, you won’t find female empowerment halfway up a pole | David Mitchell | Comment is free | The Observer
David Mitchell is right on!
Unholy enthusiasm →
Terrific article by Jeff Sparrow:
Respectable Australia in the 21st century considers all manner of things sacred. But God, by and large, is not among them. If you want to cause thoroughgoing offence, you might, for instance, try speaking up against the Israeli apartheid state and its Australian partisans, on the basis that a modicum of justice for the Palestinians would do more to counter ...
March 2010
4 posts
February 2010
3 posts
Don’t like reading? Read on… | Offbeat Earth →
June 2009
4 posts
Möbius strip →
Lego Imitates Art: 25 Fabulous Recreations |... →
March 2009
1 post
The loneliness and fury of life without a job →
February 2009
3 posts
Shakespeares Words | Home →
David and Ben Crystal’s website. It’s like google for Shakespeare.
August 2008
1 post
July 2008
2 posts
June 2008
1 post
May 2008
15 posts
24 Hour Museum says, "Send Us Your Museum Of Me" →
OMNIVORACIOUS: Fake Covers for Fake Books by a... →
Sebastian Faulks reveals the 40 books he can't... →
One of my favourite writers on some of his favourite writers. Heaven!
Why is old so fashionable in Brit lit? →
How come Americans like the young stuff while the Brits are just stuffy? Who the fuck knows? But it’s fun pointing out how it’s true.
Granta →
It has a new website.
Strip clubs are a City girl’s sanctuary | The... →
The Spectator really pulls it out of the bag with this compulsively readable article by Venetia Thompson, erstwhile city broker. I agree with her so much more than I’d be comfortable telling my mum.
Tongue Twisters →
See if you can say ‘em. It makes you feel a bit retarded.
one word. so little time. →
addictive. i warned you.
Kurt Vonnegut: 8 Basics of Creative Writing →
learn how to write good, and do other things good too