April 2011
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WatchEndangered Right Whales Grazing Off Coast of Cape Cod - ABC News
There are only a few hundred right whales in the North Atlantic, but this year beachgoers in Cape Cod have been treated to a rare sight — at least 100 of the endangered creatures have been counted in the area, grazing in mass just off the shoreline.
“The current must be piling the plankton up,” said Charles...
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New England: your tips please?
BT and I are off on a conference trip/holiday to New England on Thursday. We’ll be visiting Providence (RI), Mystic Seaport (CT), Cape Cod and Provincetown (MA), and Boston (MA). Any recommendations for things to see and do, what and where to eat? Thank you!
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“It was popularly believed that a bun baked on Good Friday would never go mouldy,...”
– “Sailors, always a superstitious lot, took buns to sea hoping they might ward off shipwreck. There’s a pub in the East End called The Widow’s Son, named after a woman who lived on the site in the 1820s and who baked some hot cross buns for her son who was due home from sea that...
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Saw Cheek by Jowl’s Tempest performed by their sister Russian company last night. Some impressive stuff (great acting from quite a few company members; genuinely funny and inventive Trinculo/Stephano subplot; fantastic Ariel/s; a great camp/Soviet fantasia wedding masque), some rather pedestrian work (particularly on the technical side: extremely poor sound design; unnecessary - and badly...
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“I believe every city and town should contain at least one remote spot,...”
– Michael Cunningham, Land’s End: A Walk Through Provincetown, p.40
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“Può un paese poggiare da decenni su un unico autore? È sano un sistema che...”
– Guia Soncini » Archivio del blog » «Improvvisavo»
In generale mi fido delle persone molto selettivamente, specialmente per quanto riguarda i film, e specialmente se sono persone che il cinema lo sanno poco. Però, molto selettivamente, nello specifico, questa volta di Soncini al cinema mi...
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“Looking at the Earth, the Northern Lights, the fragile-looking atmosphere, the...”
– East German Cosmonaut Sigmund Jähn - ‘Capitalism Now Reigns in Space’ - SPIEGEL ONLINE - News - International
Sigmund Jähn, 74, was the first German in space. In 1978, Jähn, at the time a lieutenant colonel with the air force of the communist East Germany, orbited the Earth on board...
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Follow Yuri Gagarin on the first human space... →
BST. First Orbit recreates the flight of the Russian cosmonaut Yuri Gagarin on 12 April 1960 minute-by-minute, using original mission audio, media broadcasts and synchronous footage of the Earth shot from the International Space Station
edit: watch it here [thanks kateoplis]
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Cormac McCarthy and Werner Herzog Discuss the... →
kateoplis:
Grab some bourbon, go out on the deck, sit in your rocking chair and listen.
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“It’s more or less accepted among those who’ve tried that a Ph.D. will at some...”
– RB and me: an education | The Dublin Review
Welcome to my world, guys.
This is just a brief and incidental selection from a wonderful autobiographical essay by Brian Dillon about the trials and tribulations of getting an education in books and in life. (If Brian wasn’t my colleague...
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London Poetry: Rather Like Orchestration By Simon... →
Our colleague and friend, the rather excellent poet Simon Smith, has a rather brilliant London poem featured on londonist.com
Rather Like Orchestration
A future becomes a present conjured from a diary. People walking over the silver bridge. Nobody goes to sleep these days because no one is allowed, The top light remains on, the one in the hallway Projects a strange orange shaft that myths are...
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Joe Wright Waiting On Saoirse Ronan & James McAvoy... →
nightswimming:
‘Hanna’ director says Benedict Cumberbatch & Kelly Macdonald have joined the cast. He’s already got longtime collaborator Keira Knightley, Aaron Johnson and Jude Law on board.
I *knew* James MacAvoy would be in this eventually!! :-D
I am properly outraged at the wrongness of all this. Jesus. Ikea Knightley to play a part as rich and complex as Anna! Aaron Johnson is a CHILD...
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Booted: what really ails Italy? - The New Yorker →
> Tim Parks on Italy’s anniversary and life with Berlusconi.
I used to get annoyed with Tim Parks because I found him as provincial and narrow-minded in his early writings as the Veronese people he described, but I have to admit that in time he’s become a much sharper and more knowledgeable critic of Italy. This smart and well-written article looks at the country in long shot rather...
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Let's make some music, make some money, find some...
Just woken up from a dream in which I discussed the meaning of Time to Pretend with Christoph Waltz. Good morning y’all. How are you today?
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Russian cosmonaut Yuri Gagarin to be honoured with... →
The British Council announced that it is going to mark the achievements of the great Russian explorer by placing him opposite the statue of a great British explorer, Captain Cook.
Andrea Rose, the council’s visual arts director and driving force behind the project, said the cosmonaut’s successful mission in Vostok 1 was “a story that is of importance to all of us”.
She...
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What else could I write?
I don’t have the right
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Re: Risposta candidatura blogger
placesthatpull:
Gentili, Grazie per la risposta alla mia email, Purtroppo, trovo a dir poco inadeguata la cifra che proponete per la collaborazione sul vostro blog e preferirei piuttosto collaborare gratuitamente con un’altra testata. Come anticipavo nella mia precedente email che, a questo punto, immagino non abbiate letto, ho dalla mia due anni di esperienza come redattrice di cinema/musica...
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Kenneth Branagh is a decent actor →
Joe Queenan doesn’t think so. Go get him.
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