Tim Miller on the Bush funeral and “the sad truth of public theatre”
At his blog Truth and Silence, Tim Miller has a post on the funeral of George H W Bush and what it reveals about the media and our culture.. We have…
Category: if a thing is worth doing it is worth doing badly
Monday Monster Movie: Shin Godzilla
Like an Aaron Sorkin-scripted movie, “Shin Godzilla” features lots of serious looking people in suits striding around giving orders. Proof perhaps that Japan is not the isolated culture people sometimes…
A 8½ mile putt
From “Golf’s Strangest Rounds: Extraordinary but True stories from over a Century of Golf” by Andrew Ward “A RECORD PUTT ABOVE THE ATLANTIC OCEAN, SEPTEMBER 1997 If a golfer…
Trying to do too much – lessons from the Life Study, the Trappists and David Mamet
Here is a post on my other blog “A Medical Education” inspired by a passage in Helen Pearson’s “The Life Project”, which I reviewed in the TLS. An understandable tendency to…
#inktober2018 efforts for #guarded and #spell #inktobertipperary
The whole point of #Inktober is to draw and share … which I have failed to do a) by not keeping up and b) by being not very good at…
#Inktober2018 Day 1: “Poisonous”
It is Inktober once again. I am a little late getting started and may skip the step of sharing my inky efforts on social media… however as ever there are…
What is the worst chess move? – with Gregory Serper
I am unsure if I am worse at chess or at drawing but I enjoy both. Chess.com is a wonderful resource for online play and also for learning. I am afraid I have been…
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