Sunday 5th August
Friends of The Rectory (if you never heard of them, you don't belong, trust me) will be delighted, and only a little surprised, to discover, courtesy of my good friend Jonathan's blog, these twin sightings of Ogden. (Nut Flake? Neither entirely, but a little of each - or so she'd have you believe.)
Happy day for Roger, too. And all who sail in him.
Saturday 4th August
London Zoo, Spring 2007
Friday 3rd August
Commuters tell of bridge horror
"And then, then!, the silly cow puts her Ace on top of my ten! I could have killed her! We haven't spoken since..."
Thursday 2nd August
Wapping, Spring 2007
Wednesday 1st August
The New Republic's Lee Siegel is one of America's more heavyweight TV critics.
Back in 2003, he write a particularly penetrating critique of what we call Breakfast TV. (Thankfully for his mental health, he doesn't seem to have been exposed to our particular, peculiar, take on the concept of the 'morning show'.)
I've only just read the piece, but I'm immediately indebted to him for the information that Hegel "said that the modern person's daily prayer was reading the newspaper."
(No indication of what Hegel would have made of an internet news site - the equivalent of medieval indulgences, perhaps.)
I was also particularly taken by Siegel's comparison between the tone of the morning and late-night news shows, concluding that America (most of us, in fact) "wakes to insincerity and goes to sleep to irony and cynicism."
That's all from us. Sleep well.
Tuesday 31st July
Heron Quays, Summer 2007
Monday 30th July
I was slightly startled to find the following offer whilst browsing through my on-line TV listings service:
Is Rick responsible for the catering at Ibiza Rocks this year? Let us pray that he keeps his shirt on.
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