Burton Taylor Studio, Oxford, Wed September 24th - Sat September 27th 2008
This play begins with red powder (dust, blood?) being sprinkled on the floor. Meanwhile Elegba (Anthony Walsh) draws a chalk circle to mark out what will be the “stage” - a neat way of dealing with the BTS space, where there is no intrinsic […]
My family are Catholic, though not excessively so. My ancestors came from England and Ireland (as well as the odd straggler from Sweden or Portugal), and were perhaps, in the mongrel-crucible of the Terra Australis, brought together in one way or another by their minority faith. My grandfather told me once that the Catholic/Protestant divide […]
If you want to know what I thought of the recent film Paris, my review is up at Daily Info Oxford.
(The review has been slightly hacked at.)
I did a phone interview with a journalist from the Wall Street Journal during the week, and I ended up getting a mention (near the bottom) in his article published today:
Making Every Word Count
If you’re like me, you’ve wasted time taking online quizzes like the one my friend challenged me to take: Name the 100 […]
I have finally got around to developing some photos from Catalunya:
From “The Mezzanine”, by Nicholson Baker, p.22:
One way or another, I had worried about the death of brain cells since I was about ten, convinced year after year that I was getting more stupid; and when I began to drink in a small way, and the news broke (while I was in college) that an […]
Here are some nice words for today:
ape
abdomen
supine
ursine
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