Something I’ve been doing ever since I first heard a taped On the beach in the squat next to Islington Town Hall on Upper Street, with Ra$ta the incontinent cat periodically tumbling from his armchair perch, suffering stoically from his compulsive consumption of any small dark lumps discovered on his quite limited travels. Not that…
Everyone except UMassD prof Brian Glyn Williams, the Huffington Post and Greek nationalists has known for more than a decade that there’s no way they were left behind by Alexander. No great loss: it was always a pretty unimaginative story, and what actually may have happened (via) is quite extraordinary. Don’t get me wrong: I…
Cart logic: Total price < 150€: you can have your paint delivered to you; you pay extra. Total price > 150€: you can have your paint delivered to you, free; unfortunately the only delivery option (Formas de Entrega) is to pick stuff up in the shop. If I point this out to them, do you…
A reader writes: I have found an excellent novel in Spanish by a long-dead author who is still just in copyright. He was already forgotten when he died, and has remained so. I’d like to translate and self-publish it. How much should I offer the rights-holders?
Everyone now has a cute little helmet. Drunken pedallers are now frowned upon. Behaving like a sociopathic arsehole in other respects remains de rigueur.
“Lions Bible”, from 1804: 1 Kings 8:19 reads “thy son that shall come forth out of thy lions”, rather than “loins”. What would the world have been like had the Lyle’s Golden Syrup tin borne a picture of the rotting carcass of some loins with a swarm of bees? (Via a lovely guy who seems…
