My heart goes out to the people of Paris this morning, its citizens and its visitors. I cannot imagine what you are going through. Life will have to go on, somehow. No matter how bad things are at this moment. I didn’t hear of the despicable terrorist attacks on Paris until early this morning. The […]
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Star Wars: The Force Awakens – how is each trailer even better than the last?
Star Wars: The Force Awakens is now a little under six weeks away (at the time of my writing this, Friday 6 November 2015). There have now been four trailers. Somehow, each has been better than the last. Anticipation could not be higher. I’ve written before about how magical I found the first and second […]
London is recreating
“London is recreating.” Three simple words to sum up London? London never ceases to reinvent itself, to recreate itself and to work (if I might for a second time quote these words from Clive James*) “its eternal trick of showing the next generation that the possibilities are infinite, and everything has begun again.” Permanent renewal […]
Have fun, be loose, enjoy the process
Are you ready for your close-up? What’s stopping you from saying what you want to say? I believe that we live in the greatest time in history for communications, for self expression, for saying what we want and need to say. The evolution, shrinkage and increased affordability of technology means that the tools for communication […]
Of Twitter, tweet-ups and introversion
Twitter, it is my contention, is a perfect communications medium for the card-carrying introvert. But what happens when the Twitter world and the real world cross over? Gentle reader, have you ever had the words taken right out of your mouth? I am a card-carrying introvert. Speaking to other people, the words sometimes don’t come […]
#Billablehour: Please consider donating to @savechildrenuk
Gentle reader: I would like to ask you please to consider a donation to Save the Children. You have seen the heart-rending images and heard the awful stories of refugees from Syria and elsewhere. I have been deeply impressed by the groundswell of effort, action and giving inspired by what we have all seen over […]
Worry is waste
Have you seen Bicycle Thieves*? If not: You know those critics’ polls of the greatest films of all time, that are pretty much always topped by Citizen Kane? Well, Bicycle Thieves pretty much always places second or third in such lists. And, it delights me to report, with jolly good reason. I finally got to […]
The Tao of Keith Richards: Why would you keep a dollar past sunset?
How can you not love Keith Richards? Keith Richards has done enough. He need never do any more. His eminence (his, if you will, satanic majesty) is assured in all departments. Music. “Refreshments.” Life. Strip away all the music and the myth, the assumed-over-the-years sozzled aristo speaking voice, the bourbon-gargling, perma-scarfed persona.* You are left […]
Is this the real life?
Real life? Just fantasy? Is it high time you took just one day out of life to escape from reality? What, truly, is life’s purpose? Is society nought but a cock-up? It is a truth all but universally acknowledged in blogging circles that around this time of year – as people head off on their […]
Illumine the whole of time
Depending on how you look at it, nothing is inevitable, or everything is. Inevitably, we have a certain amount of time. But how we spend that time, how we illuminate our lives and those of others, is not inevitable. You have a choice. There is only one thing that is guaranteed to happen in the […]
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