On the same day the Enola Gay dropped the bomb on Hiroshima, a small Mexico City pharmaceutical manufacturer offered the distinguished Hungarian Jewish contract bridge player, George Rosenkranz, work synthesising progesterone from inedible yams. He fell in love with the city immediately: I saw the blue sky, the volcano, and heard this music outside my…
Here once again is polemics prof Geoff Nunberg making a dick of himself–check his update–while trying to do the same to George W Bush. Anyone who has spent any time with luvvies or second-hand booksellers will be aware that writing may be regarded as a commodity and that commoditisers are not necessarily unsympathetic idiots. […
If United hadn’t made me put the bag in hold luggage, and if United’s notoriously light-fingered (and heavy-footed) baggage handlers at Chicago O’Hare hadn’t stolen my camera, I would be able to post a photo of a no-parking sign from a village south of Oaxaca, Mexico, which had lost the ESTACION from NO ESTACIONARSE–figure it…