This man is the owner of Kulminator, one of the best beer cafes in the world. Their collection is so extensive that you will be quite lost without the help of this fellow, but he will gladly make recommendations. They take their beer very, very seriously… there is a big sign out the front that […]
Friday´s Guardian had a fantastic short piece by Woody Allen, reflecting on the recent death of the Swedish director Ingmar Bergman.
I like Woody´s writing the same way I like the writing in his films: he´s pithy. His piece on Bergman is not just the usual vacuous laudatry crap that people write when someone dies - […]
I am often struck by the eery similarity between the mid-”summer” weather forecasts for Oxford, and the mid-winter forecasts for Adelaide.
OXFORD
Sunday: light showers, 19C
Monday: light rain, 15C
Tuesday: sunny intervals, 18C
ADELAIDE
Sunday: sunny intervals, 15C
Monday: sunny, 18C
Tuesday: sunny, 16C
… okay, so maybe there´s a bit more sunshine in mid-winter Adelaide. But you get the point.
People who are bosses, managers… generally, in positions of power and authority - are nearly always slower to accept original and innovative ideas. When people feel that they are in a good position, they have more to lose than win; in other words, they are happy with things as they are. Why would they want […]
I´ve got lots of photos up at flickr, from my recent trip to Palermo and otherwise…
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If nothing else, I need to write a blog post today just to get that hideous picture of Joss Stick off the top of my blog page.
So: some diversions. Or: what I have been reading and watching.
I recently picked up a second-hand copy of Chronicles, the first volume of Bob Dylan´s autobiography. I got a […]