One hundred hours of solitude
Granta’s one hundred! Damn neat. That should take care of a few evenings.
View ArticleOne Hundred Women:
Forbes release their list of one hundred powerful women. Mostly as predicted. But it’s all so wrongly timed. By this winter, hairstyles would have changed.
View ArticleSight and Sound 2008 Top Ten
From December 2008 Sight and Sound: 1. Hunger (Steve McQueen, UK) 2. There Will Be Blood (Paul Thomas Anderson, USA) 3. WALL-E (Andrew Stanton, USA) 4. Gomorrah (Matteo Garrone, Italy) =5. A...
View ArticleMetaphor of the week:
The Commission on the Prevention of Weapons of Mass Destruction, Proliferation and Terrorism incidentally submitted its long awaited report last week, just after Mumbai 2008. As it is US focused,...
View ArticleBits n Pieces
Disturbed sleep rhythm and mildly achy. Long day tomorrow. So skimming off a quick few randomers: Sometimes when I open up the London Review I go straight to the Classified section. Especially the...
View ArticleLazy Sunday Thoughts on Human Condition
Perhaps would be helpful to read this before. What is it to know a person? What do we mean when we claim to know a person? I suppose it goes beyond the superficial – the idea of acquaintance or the...
View ArticlePulp Fiction: A Note on Narration
Pulp Fiction: More often than not, both in the online world and offline, I find myself explaining the details of the movement of narration in Pulp Fiction. It has been so often that I thought I’ll put...
View ArticleLinkits….
A quicklink flashpost: Radio 4′s royal road series to German philosophy with interesting tidbits here. And for you elle, Crime write mullings, somewhere you hear a certain John Benjamin Banville Black.
View ArticleOn Jobs & Jobs
I know, I know gallons of ink have been spilled on Steve Jobs over the last year or so. But these two articles I found particularly interesting. They are quite lengthy so do grab a drink or two : First...
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