When the deep purple falls
‘Dappled light’ and the thing it refers to is one of my favourite words, and so I’m never happier than this time of year when you see light like the…
Kitten on the Keys
I swear to God I didn’t set this shot up. As I was sorting out some music, I came across the famous Kitten on the Keys by Zez Confrey, and…
Exclusive claptrap
Let us rebel against poisonous academics and their preposterous claptrap of exclusion is an article by Robert Fisk about the way academics litter their disciplines with language that serves to…
Raymonda revisited
“From Saracens to Socialites” is an interesting article in The Australian about Stephen Baynes’ new production of Raymonda for Australian Ballet which opens in Melbourne on Tuesday. Corrie Perkin in…
Chewing the fat about obesity
On the day that the main headline at 9.00am on the BBC news site is England to have 13m obese by 2010, I’m trying to work out why this seems…
The Kazoo Trumpet
I’ve complained about the occasional scarcity of kazoos in London before, so I’m delighted to offer a mini-clip of a girl in Electric Town in Tokyo playing her heart out…