Link Things

If I ever make like I'm going to buy the OED, stop me. http://www.guardian.co.uk/books/2008/oct/17/ammon-shea-dictionary-extract-oed

Bernstein on McCain; Rolling Stone, ditto

From a couple of weeks back: McCain: The Mavericking Maverick Mavericks More

The Curse of the Fall

Tunnels: Cool. (One for the Twentieth Century Society - or the Landmark Trust.)

The partnership which created the Brum Selfridges building have split their practice

Light the blue touch paper and retire (Guardian G2 23/9/8, p.20, and not online that I can see)

The question should read: 'Why do men enjoy re-reading books and watching films they have seen before?' It is a fact that men cannot multiskill, so any distraction, however small, while reading a book or watching a film will send their minds into a spin and consequently they will literally 'lose the plot'.

Think about it - do you know any woman who regularly buys box sets or watches the 'director's cut' at the end of a DVD? Women feel no need to revisit films or books as they grasp the plot, characters, story line, etc the first time. Men, on the other hand, have to re-watch and re-read in order to grasp the basic plot. They veil their stupidity by saying things like, 'I want to watch/read again to fully appreciate the artistry of the piece . . . blah blah blah.'

Men reading this answer - I suggest that you start reading it again so that you fully understand it. Women, move on to the next one.

Beca Davies, Cardiff

I Am an Anchorist

I Am an Anchorist,
originally uploaded by Andrew M Butler.

Your future dream is a shopping scheme cos i

I wanna be Anchory !
in the patty

How many ways to spread what you want
I use the best I use the rest
I use the creamery I use Anchory cos i

I wanna be Anchory !
The only way to be !


Meanwhile, from the same subway an answer to an earlier question:

Reading LII

Samuel R. Delany, Tales of Nevèrÿon (1979/1988)

I bought the first volume of Delany's Return to Nevèrÿon series on 13 April 1989, from Sherratt and Hughes, under the council house of Nottingham. I suspect I demolished it in a couple of days, lying on my childhood bed at my parent's home during the Easter vacation, but the wonder is what I made of it. English Lit being a very different beast in those days I would have had the barest inkling of who Lacan and Derrida were, although their names were scattered through this book. Is it later volumes retrospectively changing things or is there less sex than I remember - Gorgik in his preslave days is attracted to the collar, but his sex slave status is with a woman. Only in the later shirt stories do we see him as homosexual - and again perhaps the fetishism means the sex of of the sexual object is irrelevant. Anyway - a ( cut )

Another commentary here