Homer J Simpson!
Author: Richard Carter
A fat, bearded chap with a Charles Darwin fixation.
Get stuffed!
My sister has asked for a copy of Jen's fantastic apricot stuffing recipe.
Book review: ‘London Orbital’ by Iain Sinclair
Walking around the M25.
Book review: ‘Lady Hope’ by L.R. Croft
Re-flogging a long-dead horse.
Book review: ‘Reality Hunger’ by David Shields
A manifesto.
Working the Room
by Geoff Dyer. Essays Geoff Dyer groups this collection of essays into four sections—Visuals, Verbals, Variables and Personals—to reflect, respectively, pieces about the visual arts (mainly photography), literature, miscellaneous stuff, and personal stuff. I read it on my Kindle, so the Visuals section turned out to be less enjoyable than it should have been due… Continue reading Working the Room
Very witty, Shaw
A nice quote from George Bernard Shaw.
I totally stole this joke from someone on Twitter:
Chinese author Mo Yan wins Nobel Prize for Literature.
Timely warning
This internet thing has the potential to save lives.
Get ’em while they’re still hot!
Apparently, Peru has an annual Gastronomic Festival of the Cat. Sadly, so-called ‘animal rights’ activists are now on the case. I'm off down the travel agent's to book a trip while I still can.