February 2012
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New Zealand postcard competition: winners...
A couple of days ago I set a little quiz about my forthcoming travels. Yes, you’ve guessed it: we’re going to snake-free New Zealand!
To make things fair (and annoy my non-tumblring husband) I asked BT to pick the names out of a hat. The lucky recipients of a postcard from down under are: jackson-cage, renkris, and undertrees. Your addresses please? Send to byronic(@)gmail(dot)com
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Next week's destination: guess where I'm going?
I’ll send a postcard from there to three people picked at random amongst those who give the correct answer.
Population: 4.4million
Area: 268,680 sq km (similar to Colorado, bigger than the UK)
GDP growth: -1% (2009)
Inflation: 2%
Unemployment: 6.5%
Life expectancy: tuatara (native lizards) 100+, kauri trees 2000+
International visitors: 2.4million in 2009
Total number of snakes: 0*
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lithe-and-lovely asked: hey~ the xv poem on your tumblr by e.e cummings. do you have any idea where i could possibly obtain a complete copy? thanks in advance.
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Watchbeatonna:
From the NFB - I love the story of the Asahi baseball team. And I love documentaries with cute old men.
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murmurandshout replied to your photo: So, Geoff Dyer has written a book about…
Just went down to my car, into the trunk and the box of books to donate to the library, and took out the Geoff Dyer book I’ve never read. I think I’ll keep (and read) it.
I’m glad I saved a book today! Which one is it?
Some of Dyer’s early novels are very good, and I have a lot of love for them. He...
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Ash Wednesday, T.S. Eliot
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Because I do not hope to turn again Because I do not hope Because I do not hope to turn Desiring this man’s gift and that man’s scope I no longer strive to strive towards such things (Why should the aged eagle stretch its wings?) Why should I mourn The vanished power of the usual reign? Because I do not hope to know again The infirm glory of the positive hour Because I do not think Because I...
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Ichiro Changes His Stance, The Assault on...
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Nothing beautiful can last forever. It’s why James Dean and Marilyn Monroe are still so popular—their looks will never see the damage of time and being out in the sun without sunscreen. For a while, Ichiro Suzuki seemed to be the one person immune to all of that. He’s still tall and thin, avoiding the middle aged expansion that happens to even the best of us. (Some say...
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You know I said the wifi situation at the Berlinale was bad? In the last three days it got even worse. The next instalments of my diaries will continue next week. For now you should know that actually Robert Pattinson is a really nice guy. Who’d have thunk it, eh?
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Argos, dog of Odysseus
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At the end of The Odyssey, Odysseus returns home in disguise after two decades of war and wandering; his old swineherd, Eumeaus, taking him for a stranger, walks him across his property and nearby his old dog, occasioning one of the earliest sentimental descriptions of the human-canine bond (from the eighth century BCE):
Now, as they talked on, a dog that lay there lifted up his muzzle,...
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Bring it on, London:
We’ve got polenta, fennel sausage ragù, home-made crostata, and a bunch of movies. We’re ready to be snowed in.
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The Vinyl Diaries: Bruce Springsteen, "Tunnel of... →
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I was 17 the year Tunnel of Love was released; Bruce Springsteen was 38 and intent on ruminating, on taking stock, on running down a list of decisions and regrets, looking backward and around himself, because he was unable to see the way forward. I missed that then. To me, the album was just good; I simply didn’t know enough to recognize the pain and confusion that was quite...
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