October 17th - October 23rd 2005
Sunday Shadwell, Autumn 2005
Saturday Tobias Schneebaum
Friday Spell-bound
Thursday More tench
Wednesday Lap of (dis)honour
Tuesday Pinochet
Monday Misericord
Sunday 23rd October 2005
Shadwell, Autumn 2005
Saturday 22nd October 2005
Obituary Watch: Tobias Schneebaum
Tobias Schneebaum, a New York writer, artist and explorer who in the 1950s lived among cannibals in the remote Amazon jungle and, by his own account, sampled their traditional cuisine, died Tuesday in Great Neck, N.Y. He was in his mid-80s and a longtime resident of Greenwich Village.
In 1955, Mr. Schneebaum, then a painter, won a Fulbright fellowship to study art in Peru.. where he heard about the Arakmbut. The Arakmbut, whose home was several days' journey into the jungle, hunted with bows, arrows and stone axes. No outsider, it was said, had ever returned from a trip there.
To his relief, the Arakmbut welcomed him. To his delight, homosexuality was not stigmatized there: Arakmbut men routinely had lovers of both sexes. Mr. Schneebaum spent the next several months living with the tribe in a state of unalloyed happiness.
Friday 21st October 2005
Spells cast 6, successful spells 1 (must try harder), wizards knobbed 1 (unsatisfactory)..?
Thursday 20th October 2005
Rome, HBO's potentially ill-fated collaboration with the BBC, turns out to be not quite as bad as feared, although much of the dialogue teeters on the edge of farce - and then falls, giggling historo-hysterically, over the edge.
As with the scene where Mark Anthony's wife does her best to entertain her husband's stalwart troops:
More tench? A dormouse perhaps?
A definite contestant for Gastro-Quote of the Year, alongside Dylan Moran's "thin slices of swan" and that creme de la Eurocreme, "Good morning, your Highness. Your strawberries."
Wednesday 19th October 2005
Tuesday 18th October 2005
At the beginning of this year, officials of Riggs Bank pleaded guilty to failing to file suspicious activity reports, and agreed to a fine of $16 million, as part of an ongoing Department of Justice investigation into money-laundering in general, and the funds of PEPs ('politically exposed persons') in particular.
The PEP in question was General Augusto Pinochet.
Monday 17th October 2005
I know what it means; I know what it ought to mean
Misericord: - the backing track on any song by Antony and the Johnsons.
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