Category Archives: Journalism

Oliver Sacks is finished, and will be in next Saturday’s Guardian. I spent a lot of yesterday and this morning waiting for people to ring me back with comments, which is nervous-making. It doesn’t, however, normally bring me out in … Continue reading → Continue reading →

By the end, he looked like George Melly. It is also a detail in the Aspen Times coverage that the second crew at the scene were the bereavement counsellors. Continue reading →

Once upon a time, there was a neuter singular Greek noun, kudos meaning glory, or fame in war. About ten years ago, I started noticing it used as an American marketing term, meaning, of a gadget, useful. Fly Fisherman magazine, … Continue reading → Continue reading →

That the first twenty one pages of today’s Daily Mail are devoted entirely to the great news. Even the Melanie Phillips attack on Tony Blair has Charles and Camilla in the headline. Continue reading →

Some pseudoliterate has been reminiscing in the Guardian about the dotcom boom in Hoxton: “The satirical fanzine Shoreditch Twat, which I published, was born out of this confusion, seeking to make sense of the stampede of east London paradigms who … Continue reading → Continue reading →

The front page of today’s Daily Mail. The Express was almost identical. I suppose that to win the next election, Blair will announce that householders have the right to shoot asylum seekers, but only if they’re very very angry. Continue reading →

So my friend <mmmmph> rings up and says how nice it was to see me in London the other night, and how we must meet again at some party without the Archbishop of Canterbury hosting it. The conversations circles for … Continue reading → Continue reading →

Of all the people I have discovered from blog reading, the most journalistically talented is Billmon, whoever the hell he is. It’s not so much that he is a good writer: there are lots of people out there who can … Continue reading → Continue reading →

The last paragraph in the Times’ obit of Danny Sugerman, Jim Morrison’s ammanuensis, and later part of Iggy Pop’s management: Danny Sugerman is survived by his wife, Fawn Hall, who was Oliver North’s secretary during the Iran-Contra scandal under Ronald … Continue reading → Continue reading →

Whatever they do for Christmas in San Francisco, (and it probably involves unnatural acts with tofu rather than turkey) Andrew Orlovsky has not held back: Online has always been a promiscuous communications medium: it’s easy to step on and step … Continue reading → Continue reading →