It seems increasingly likely, with Agung a-rumbling away down in Bali and mass evacuations in the neighbourhood. The airport is quite distant from the volcano itself but the air space shall certainly be closed and flights diverted. Speaking of inconvenient natural disasters in holiday destinations, the response to the hurricane in Puerto Rico continues to […]
Feminist credentials
My feminist credentials suffered a body blow upon watching Melania Trump’s UN speech. That said, I am not sure that one can’t be a staunch feminist and be critical of a bad dress, bad botox job and bad barbie doll style. A rude feminist, perhaps.
Woke up
Woke up this morning, looked at the news. Fuck me.
America
The Debate Link quotes WEB DuBois in a post about the white nationalists in Virginia and Trump’s refusal to even condemn them and their act of terrorism: As we saw the dead dimly through rifts of battlesmoke and heard faintly the cursings and accusations of blood brothers, we darker men said: This is not Europe […]
On the brink
I suppose I should be glad that we went to South Korea earlier this year, given the current international climate. Better timing than our earlier plans to visit Libya and Syria, both interrupted by war. So if the worst happens, we will have personal experience of what is lost. Not much of a comfort. When […]
Political afternoon
First watching the live blogs on Metafilter on the US ‘skinny repeal’ healthcare bill, with John McCain’s surprise ‘no’ vote killing it. Then, immediately, turning closer to home, to where the Supreme Court of Pakistan gave its verdict on Nawaz Sharif. Sharif is gone. I have mixed feelings about all of this. On one hand […]
Thickens like roux
The plot thickens re former classfellow Jared Kushner. A friend dug up the old yearbook to find his list of activities as a student included, among other items, ‘Cooking Editor, Current Magazine‘. Cooking editor?
Noxious
I learned this morning that a prominent member of the Trump White House was not only in my year at university but belonged to my house. I don’t remember him at all, and none of my university friends do either except for one who knew him personally – there were countless young men of that […]
Gwangju
Arrived in Gwangju yesterday afternoon. A pleasant city, which presents itself as a city of art and design. There is an ‘art street’ which had a series of small shops, many with genuinely nice ceramics and paper work, a few galleries with average but not terrible stuff. There is an art centre which appears to […]
Day after
There is general exhaustion and relief that that, at least, is all over. Today work began again, for both the Gentleman Friend and myself. I took to it more easily: redoing someone else’s work on an annual report (I’d written it in earlier years, but couldn’t this year), and completing a deprivation analysis. Tonight we […]