Monthly Archives: January 2003

Glamour profession

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

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fame at last

Danny O’Brien links to me! perhaps I should start a reward programme. Continue reading

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get there

William Gibson blogs! Continue reading

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Spot the Author

The rose opens her petals And embraces the violet The lily too has awakened. They bare their heads to the zephyrs. Yes, it’s dreadful; and it’s translated, too. If I gave the original language away, it would be too easy. … Continue reading Continue reading

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Pilgrim’s protest

Mark Pilgrim has lost his temper about the W3C abolishing a couple of tags in the XHTML specification. I don’t understand why. That may not be news. I understand, at best, about half of what I read on his site: … Continue reading Continue reading

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Encounter with an old bruiser

I had to ring Denis Healey today in re Conquest: they were both in the communist party at Oxford inthe late Thirties. He was delighted to hear Bob was still alive. “When you are over eighty,”, he said, “all your … Continue reading Continue reading

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The Suez Fallacy

I have noticed a new distortion of thought in the British Left: I will call it the Suez Fallacy becasue it appeared to me most clearly in a report on opposition to the war among Labour constituency chairmen. The term … Continue reading Continue reading

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big self restraint

“Have begun big self-restraint programme with no drinks or smokes until 7.30pm and then only beer and wine till 10 or so. When I go out to lunch etc. I can have what I like. Works bloody well: I can … Continue reading Continue reading

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more puerility

Another Conquest fragment: When the earl pulled out his bloody great tool at tea To do the page-boy wrong, His chaplain cried in incredulity, ‘How long, oh Lord, how long!’. Continue reading

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Vanity

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

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