Monthly Archives: October 2002

The unexamined life

is not worth living, as we know. the google examined life, is more confusing … Continue reading

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to live a Christian

Yesterday, the Sunday Times carried a detailed story about a gay priest in the diocese of Monmouth who had a fortnight ago adopted a fifteen-year-old boy with severe behavioural difficulties whom he and his partner had been helping to look … Continue reading Continue reading

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Martial art

Et delator es et calumniator et fraudator es et negotiator et fellator es et lanista. Miror quare non habeas, Vacerra, nummos I came across this in a disintegrating copy of Martial’s epigrams, translated by James Michie, who makes it out … Continue reading Continue reading

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The revolution has arrived

The weapons of the hated enemy are turned against them. Continue reading

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essex timeslip

I went out to supper tonight on my own, with a couple of books to remove my attention from this unwelcome fact: the penguin Nietzsche Reader, and Idoru. Some years ago I interviewed William Gibson, and liked him hugely: Continue reading

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Some sort of justice

— though distressingly prosaic — was served on me yesterday. I had just published a press column warning poor Rowan Williams that he would soon be savaged by the pack when someone came round from the Sunday Programme to interview … Continue reading Continue reading

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There’s no perfect browser

IE doesn’t do tabbed windows, keyboard control, or security. Opera does those three, but not proper DOM, so lots of otherwise valid DHTML won’t work and I have to type in all the code for this blog by hand even … Continue reading Continue reading

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Take out your gold teeth

I have no idea when this first apppeared. It has to be the funniest story ever written round a Steely Dan lyric. This week it turned out that the man who bought the gold teeth is selling “Virginia for snipers” … Continue reading Continue reading

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Statesboro blues

Listening to the original of this, and a familiar line came up: “I loved that woman, better than any woman I’ve ever seen”. Today, for the first time, I noticed that it was odd, sung by Blind Will McTell. Continue reading

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What would he know?

He’s only the husband. But you’d have thought that someone from the Church would have checked with him or the hospital records, before proclaiming a miracle. Continue reading

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