May 2012
16 posts
Bronn in Barcelona! →
Silly Game of Thrones animated GIF.
"My Arse"
In Somerset Maugham’s novel The Razor’s Edge one of the characters, Sophie MacDonald, describes how she fell off the wagon; she is left in a room with a bottle of Zubrovka
‘Then I thought I’d just pour out a glass and look at it. It had such a pretty colour’
‘Pale green.’
‘That’s right. It’s funny, its colour is just like its smell....
“An hour sitting with a pretty girl on a park bench passes like a minute, but a...”
– This quote is attributed to Albert Einstein but I never believed it, thinking it was one of that huge number of misattributed quotes that wander around the internet. I never believed it because it is wrong, wrong as an explanation of relativity and utterly misleading. However, I just checked on...
Joseph Cornell's film Rose Hobart. (v/... →
“You can’t go back home to your family, back home to your childhood,...”
– Thomas Wolfe: You can’t go home again.
“You know, Malia and Sasha, they have friends whose parents are same-sex couples. There have been times where Michelle and I have been sitting around the dinner table and we’re talking about their friends and their parents, and Malia and Sasha, it wouldn’t dawn on them that somehow their friends’ parents would be treated differently,” Mr Obama said.
... and the walls became the world all around ...
Every line in Where the Wild Things Are is great and some are brilliant but my favorite in the book and one of my favorites in the whole of the language is
A forest grew and grew and grew until the ceiling hung with vines and the walls became the world all around …
All the magic of childhood is right there, if childhood was ever destroyed it could be recreated from those words. Thank...
My people.
Report of a male talking to a wall at the rear of the Biology Building. Security attended and spoke to the male. The male identified himself as a member of Staff – he stated that he was working through a Mathematical problem and would be returning to his office after his lunch.
From
Best of true crime on campus
which lists highlights from the University of Nottingham campus security...
Tom Garvin has an article in the Irish Times giving out, in the usual way, about managerialism in the academy:
Irish Times 1/5/2012
I don’t want to join in this argument, but I was amused by his metaphor
The hulks of such schemes litter the shorelines of academia.
It reminds us that after the second world war small wooden boats stopped being economical for transport and many were left...
