I listened to a fascinating podcast yesterday, an episode of the New Books Network. It was so interesting I listened to it a second time. It was an interview with an anthropologist in Australia who has recently published a book on difference and perceptions of difference, between Aborigines and white settlers. One of the most […]
Podcasts these days
The Kermode and Mayo film review. The original podcast on my feed. First listened whilst travelling through Thailand, lying in a hammock on Ko Phi Phi which was then only a couple of years out from the tsunami. I suppose that qualifies me as a long-term listener. The New Books Network. Interviews with academics about […]
Cold and dark and damp
I have just started listening to Hilary Mantel’s Reith Lectures.
Toy shopping
Went to Toys R Us and despite the soothing cadences of In Our Time talking about Seneca it was the usual nightmare. Toy shops are filthy places, full of filthy customers and disgusting cheap gendered plastic, a environmental catastrophe for which one is expected to pay through the nose. For one who values value for […]
Speaking the dead
I finished listening to Shit Town (spoilers follow!) this afternoon over lunch. It was uncomfortable listening, to go so deeply into another person who is dead. At the same time, John B McLemore was curiously, nihilistically, open about so much in his life so maybe it doesn’t matter. Anyhow, it reminded me of the slightly […]
Vivid cream
I’ve had vivid, yet uninteresting, dreams for the past two nights. First I dreamt that the gentleman friend had backed very gently into a parked car, but fortunately had a traffic policewoman in the back seat who got out and dealt with the matter. The most notable and memorable thing about this dream was the […]