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Monthly Archives: November 2011
INGLISH SPOCKEN HERE
<!-[if gte mso 9]> photograph: yohan euan Europeans, at least, have an excuse. It’s not their language. What could you say about the KFC outlet in the UK who once advertised: OPEN SEVEN DAYS A WEEK EXCLUDING SUNDAYS Even that … Continue reading
WHY IT’S HARD BEING THE BARD
I recently watched screenwriter John Orloff’s Anonymous, which has dragged out the tired old debate about whether William Shakespeare was really William Shakespeare. He was or not he was. That is the question. In this piece of ludicrous fluff, … Continue reading
A WRITER’S THANKSGIVING
Last night I watched a wonderful German movie called The Lives of Others. It won the 2006 Oscar for Best Foreign Language film; it is about a Stasi operative who is assigned to spy on a playwright during the Cold … Continue reading
BUGGER!
Last week got a little intense, with Yale professors and Sufi mystics, so I thought I’d start this week on a lighter note with some Australian humour. This was the classic Australian Toyota ad from 2006. It’s absolutely typical of … Continue reading
FRIDAY NIGHT DRINKS
Still got some comments on the post about THE SITUATION, and how VS Naipaul’s Booker winning manuscript was rejected by over twenty London literary agents when it was recently submitted under a different name. Karen says that as a reader … Continue reading
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Out there, beyond right and wrong
On Monday we looked at the dark side of human nature. Now let’s look at the light. The nation of Love has a different religion of all religions - For lovers, God alone is their country and their faith. There … Continue reading
FOR EVIL TO TRIUMPH
“All that is necessary for evil to triumph is for good men to do nothing.” - Edmund Burke I read an article this week by Bill Phillips in Mens Health that raised a thought-provoking question about the Penn. State scandal. … Continue reading
FRIDAY NIGHT DRINKS
Well judging by the response to Monday’s post, history is definitely not a thing of the past. You all had a lot to say about this. I liked Anthony’s story about hearing his dad’s war stories and thinking they were … Continue reading
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WHAT PRICE TALENT?
THE SITUATION Washington DC, at a Metro Station, on a cold January morning in 2007, this man with a violin played six Bach pieces for about 45 minutes. People rushed past on their way to work. After about 3 … Continue reading
IS HISTORY A THING OF THE PAST?
According to a recent report in the UK, only 30% of state school children are choosing to study history beyond the age of 14. It either doesn’t interest them or they don’t see its relevance. As a writer of historical … Continue reading
