To step into Jeremy Clarkson mode for a nano-second, who would not want to sit out on the front porch, drinking beer and admiring a highly polished classic muscle car, winking at you in mint condition from the driveway – a metaphor for your lifelong angst-ridden rendering of the American dream? This nano-second is one [...]
Since the web began to offer a global audience to personal thoughts, back in the 90s, I’ve considered a campaign of reviewing every film I see, even if only briefly, as time allows. So, I thought the viewing of my first blu-ray might be a good point to mark the transition from sporadic to consistent. [...]
The Discipline Of The Twit is just that. If you’re going to say something inside a limit of 140 characters, with syntax and resonance and everything, it is a discipline and you are a twit if you do it to the detriment of reality. But then life isn’t like that anymore. Perhaps it never was. [...]
Somewhat predictably, the health kick planned for the last couple of weeks of term didn’t come off. I remained in a holding pattern in that respect. Really need to regain muscle tone this holiday. It’s not far away – lurking below the surface. A few days should do it. Every holiday since my teaching career [...]
Has come round remarkably quickly. Time has that habit of passing, regardless of what people do. The trick is to fill it with valuable stuff. Speaking of which, I opened a Twitter account just over a week ago. Couldn’t ignore it any longer. I guess the idea of it is that it provides carefully selected [...]