As I’ve said before, although I’m a supporter of London hosting the Olympics, my big worry is that we will come up with a feeble, amateurish opening ceremony. So I watched the Chinese version with interest.
We knew they were keen to impress: well, consider me impressed. There is no way London is going to match that in [...]
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Opening ceremony debrief
8 August 2008 – 7:58 pm
Links
12 June 2008 – 2:01 pm
1930s German Culture Magazines - a set on Flickr
A curious mixture of fashion shots and Naziana.
(del.icio.us tags: 1930s Germany magazines )
1935 Berlin Vaudeville Album - a set on Flickr
'This set of 72 images is from an album of Vaudeville performers in Berlin, Germany from 1935 to 1936. A sweet little book about 5" X 8", [...]
Tippety-tap
20 March 2008 – 10:56 pm
In celebration of this very amusing put-down of President Bush, here’s a bit of the master himself:
The Mammoth Brigade of Black Comedians
5 December 2007 – 10:25 am
More fascinating stuff from the British Library collection; this poster is from 1892.
How now, nuncle!
17 October 2007 – 12:33 pm
Hot news of the day: I’m an uncle. My sister-in-law had a baby girl yesterday. So send positive mind rays in the general direction of Cheltenham, please.
The word ‘nuncle’ is, as I expect you know, a variation of ‘uncle’ formed by mishearing ‘mine uncle’ as ‘my nuncle’. The same with ‘Ned’ as a variation on [...]
‘We The People’ at the Globe
7 September 2007 – 4:26 pm
I finally visited the Globe theatre for the first time this week. That’s not because I’ve been avoiding it—every time I walked past on the way to Tate Modern, I thought ‘I really must go to the Globe some time’— but I never got round to it.
Since the whole point is that it’s a reconstruction [...]
Too wit to woo
10 July 2007 – 11:23 am
I heard an owl last night, for the first time in years. I think there are quite a few tawny owls in London—they’re a basically woodland species and fairly well suited to a suburban mix of woodland, park and gardens. A few years ago I used to hear them quite regularly here, but as I [...]
The Nicholas Brothers
18 April 2007 – 5:17 pm
These online videos can’t do justice to dancing, but how cool is this?
That’s the Nicholas Brothers in Down Argentine Way. Not impressed yet? This is them in Stormy Weather:
Elizabethiana
7 December 2006 – 2:43 am
I’m currently reading a biography of Bess of Hardwick. I’m not that far through it yet (don’t tell me how it ends!*), but one thing is striking, reading about Tudor England†: how capricious the politics is and how much it’s dependent on patronage and favour. Admittedly, the period I’ve read about so far covers the [...]
Billy Elliot, the Musical
21 May 2006 – 11:16 pm
Yesterday I went to Billy Elliot, the musical of the movie.
Which I have to say was very enjoyable, in an emotionally manipulative kind of way. The little kid with a poignant letter from his dead mother, who wants to be a ballet dancer despite coming from a northern town in the process of being [...]
Blog pause
26 August 2005 – 6:39 pm
The cricket is so enjoyable that I almost regret the fact that tomorrow I’m going to the Dorgogne to spend a week eating, drinking and being merry with a bunch of friends. Here’s a picture of Marie Lloyd for you to look at during my absence:
Explaining Hamlet to the Tiv
13 August 2005 – 10:40 am
A hilarious exercise in comparative literature: Shakespeare in the Bush. via Copia.