December 2010
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Happy new year!
Dear Tumblr friends, I’ll be signing off Tumblr for a little while in the new year - please don’t worry: it’s no big deal, no great drama, and I don’t have a terribly serious reason for doing so, I just want to have a little more time to concentrate on slightly more pressing matters at the moment (such as finishing my PhD). I’ll be back soon, but just in case you...
Dec 31st
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Dec 28th
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Dec 28th
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Dec 27th
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Dec 27th
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Dec 24th
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Dec 24th
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Dec 23rd
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ListenIt took over eight hours and some aggravation from...
Dec 23rd
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Dec 23rd
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Hark Yeah! The Herald Angels Sing
BT is blasting Favourite Christmas Carols from the Choir of King’s College Cambridge like it’s some kind of hard rock shit, because “this is how he rolls”.
Dec 22nd
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Dec 22nd
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Dec 22nd
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Dec 21st
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Dec 21st
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Dec 20th
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Dec 20th
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Dec 20th
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Dec 20th
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Dec 20th
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Dec 20th
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Dec 20th
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Dec 20th
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Dec 18th
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“The philosopher Slavoj Zizek enjoys a good joke. Here’s one of my...”
– Simon Critchley reviews Violence, By Slavoj Zizek - The Independent He continues:  “The main ambition of this book is to bring together subjective violence with the objective violence that is its underside and precondition. “Systemic violence is thus something like the notorious...
Dec 17th
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Dec 16th
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Dec 16th
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Judi Dench voted the greatest stage actor of all... →
Maggie Smith coming second, Mark Rylance third and Ian McKellen fourth. After that came Olivier, Scofield and Gielgud with Michael Gambon eighth and Vanessa Redgrave ninth. Richardson, who died in 1983, came 10th. I have three responses (ok, four): 1. Mark, well done. (I was saying that in 1997.) 2. I’m curious as to how many of these actors the people who were polled actually saw on...
Dec 16th
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Judi Dench voted the greatest stage actor of all... →
Maggie Smith coming second, Mark Rylance third and Ian McKellen fourth. After that came Olivier, Scofield and Gielgud with Michael Gambon eighth and Vanessa Redgrave ninth. Richardson, who died in 1983, came 10th. I have three responses (ok, four): 1. Mark, well done. (I was saying that in 1997.) 2. I’m curious as to how many of these actors the people who were polled actually saw on...
Dec 16th
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Listenoldhollywood: The Godfather Waltz - composed by...
Dec 16th
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Dec 15th
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Dec 15th
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Dec 15th
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Dec 15th
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Readers' poll: 2010 in films
I’m working on my list of the top ten films of 2010. What were your favourites?
Dec 15th
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Dec 15th
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Dec 15th
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"Mayakovsky" by Frank O'Hara
1  My heart’s aflutter! I am standing in the bath tub crying. Mother, mother who am I? If he will just come back once and kiss me on the face his coarse hair brush my temple, it’s throbbing! then I can put on my clothes I guess, and walk the streets. 2 I love you. I love you, but I’m turning to my verses and my heart is closing like a fist. Words! be sick as I am sick, swoon, roll back...
Dec 14th
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Dec 14th
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Broken china bodes ill. I accidentally knocked over my favourite teapot this morning, and it smashed into five large pieces. We tried to glue it back together, but alas, poor teapot: I baptize thee Humpty Dumpty, rest in peace. The day went on along these lines, with much clumsy smashing of delicate items and unsuccessful attempts to put broken things back together again. 
Dec 14th
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Colin Firth: I no longer support the Liberal... →
Cheers Colin, I bet you they’re shitting themselves now. (And well done Guardian for squidging this highly important piece of news in between Assange’s bail, the vote on tuition fees in the House of Lords and the riots in Italy.)
Dec 14th
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Dec 14th
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WatchWatch
idlebicyle: Another TED talk about children’s creativity, This is from Dave Eggers. I heard about this project through Jarvis Cocker’s radio program and coincidently I bought a postcard with Dave Egger’s work on it. Or well I just looked at a postcard I bought one the grounds I like the pretty typography.Anyway, this seems to me to be a wonderful idea. So many good things in this post I...
Dec 13th
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solidair: Twelve Tales of Christmas is a podcast just launched by The Guardian featuring modern authors, such as Jeanette Winterson, Ali Smith, Colm Toíbin and Julian Barnes, reading one of their favorite short stories, by authors including JG Ballard, Katherine Mansfield, Italo Calvino, Ernest Hemingway and Raymond Carver. A story will be posted daily for the next 12 days. The first author and...
Dec 13th
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CHYKENS IN HOCCHEE. XXXIIII.
projectgutenberg: Take Chykenns and scald hem. take parsel and sawge withoute eny oþere erbes. take garlec an grapes and stoppe the Chikenns ful and seeþ hem in gode broth. so þat þey may esely be boyled þerinne. messe hem an cast þerto powdour dowce. - The Master Chefs of King Richard II, The Forme of Cury (1390) [full text]
Dec 13th
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Does anyone know a good place to stay in Boston,...
Dec 12th
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Dec 12th
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Dec 12th
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