Lukas Stanley’s online $1000 treasure hunt: Hint video #1
A while back I posted about Lukas Stanley’s online treasure hunt…. for those who need reminding you can, from your armchair or bed or wherever you physically are online, and…
Category: oddly enough
Anonymous’ Greatest Hits (well, on Spotify)
Whoever the official titleholder is, Spotify’s most prolific artist must surely be the dauntingly productive Various Artists, who emerges with a slew of new compilations and soundtracks and such every…
August 4th: Feast of St Sithney, patron saint of mad dogs
This is the feast day of St Sithney, patron of mad dogs: According to a Breton folk story, God revealed to Sithney that he was to be the patron of…
Want long life? Be Bond, sing about Bond, star with Julie Andrews, be Julie Andrews, appear with Ray Harryhausen
Roger Moore’s death was the first of a cinematic James Bond (well, excluding David Niven in the first Casino Royale) – Sean Connery, born 1930, is still with us, as…
Beware the gleaming, purpose built headquarters: C Northcote Parkinson’s Law of Buildings
From the Johannes de Berlaymont blog a few years back, here is a piece on C Northcote Parkinson, prophet of administration. I have a sense that the world of…
Great moments in stage names: from Angus Murdo McKenzie to Karl Denver
If ever a name sounded like a Hollywood Scotsman, it was Angus Murdo McKenzie. And if ever a name sounded like a Scottish fantasy of a Wild West cowboy, it…
Google Play’s judgment of “romantic” not quite what one might expect
I mean, “A Clockwork Orange” is not what I would think of as a date movie…
The lost worlds of Debois and Julieta Guipeal at the Tipperary County Museum
This is Portrait of a Man, by Julieta Guipeal: Apologies for the photo quality – this was taken with my phone’s camera in a well-lit (and thereby reflective) space. It…
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