The Eager Nature Fit For A Great Crisis

Added on 09 March 2009

Douglas Lindsay is attempting to finish re-writing The Barber-Surgeon's Hairshirt. The following first appeared in his Letter From Belgrade on 28th May 2004... In 1989 there was a summit of non-aligned nations in Belgrade involving the usual suspects, including Iran, Libya, North Korea etc. (Scotlan...

The Great Debate... One Of Them Anyway

Added on 05 March 2009

We watched the Sean Penn Oscar-winning flic Milk a few weeks ago, with a fairly sizeable Polish audience in attendance. Poland not being the most permissive society on the planet, it was interesting to see that a) they were showing film in the first place and b) a lot of people were interested in se...

A Highly Trained Author Writes

Added on 04 March 2009

Listening to the World Service yesterday when they were reporting the attack on the Sri Lankan cricket team, the reporter on the scene was heard to say something along the lines of: The attackers adopted the pose of commandos, showing that they were trained professionals... A man, a paid reporter, a...

That's Mistake And I Want It*

Added on 03 March 2009

(*A bad Groucho Marx joke, from A Night in Casablanca) Working my way through the re-write of The Cutting Edge of Barney Thomson, soon to become The Barber Surgeon's Hairshirt. Not surprisingly, have already fallen behind schedule. The original plan was to finish it by the end of February. That has ...

The Shower Gel Bottle Promised It Would Delight My Senses, But In The End It Just Cleaned My Armpits

Added on 02 March 2009

A sick day today. That is, Two of Two is home sick from school. One of those tricky he-was-bad-yesterday-and-not-great-in-the-night-but-he's-not-too-bad-this-morning-but-I-should-probably-keep-him-off-just-in-case kind of decisions. So I've been trying not to make it too much fun, although it will i...