Category Archives: Blather

I know it’s serious, and very painful, but you can’t help laughing when you read that “In Bavaria, a 55-year-old woman suffered severe injuries when a potato smashed into her thigh as she walked near woodland with her dog” It … Continue reading → Continue reading →

But I have been ill, and then stupid. Unbelievably stupid. The little project to turn my archives into another MT blog has so far taken two whole days without getting any results except a slew of error messages I defy … Continue reading → Continue reading →

From an interview with the heroic Aki Kaurismaki in the Guardian: I am a lousy film-maker, this I admit. But I refuse to make shit. Bad films I can make. Shit, no”. Continue reading →

(OK, another gratuitous Steely Dan reference); but Gawker says all that basketball stuff is so passé in New York. Continue reading →

A narrow escape for Professor Dawkins, I think: I was just rung up by BBC Four, a digital TV channel, and asked if I would be interested in presenting a programme about him, and interviewing him. The woman talking to … Continue reading → Continue reading →

Don’t be a hamster! This note is for all the francophone readers: you know, when you were being taught in school, that none of this stuff seemed as if it would be any use? Well, here’s the proof of that … Continue reading → Continue reading →

I was rambling and found this — enchanting, shameless, sad. Also, utterly sweet. Odd that it would once have been a much more forced newspaper column. Continue reading →

I really like this article, which is in the latest issue of Prospect; at least, I like most of it. There is an explanatory paragraph about Richard Dawkins, and The Selfish Gene, high up, which went in because the editor … Continue reading → Continue reading →

I think that Andrew Gimson may have found the antichrist, or at least the perfect consumer:

I had a piece in yesterday’s Guardian about Rowan Williams’ Dimbleby lecture. While it was being edited, a voice down the line said “Can we use the email address at the bottom of your letter? Does it work?” And I … Continue reading → Continue reading →