Depends on What Your Definition of “Live” Is
Well, if I don’t start posting something soon, I’m going to lose my carefully nurtured readership to some unscrupulous shark with an ability to string together multiple sentences without running out of steam. So here’s all the stuff I’ve had opened since Saturday. I won’t quote it, even though that does horrible things to my poor external memory drive, but, well, consider this your open thread.
The Sunday Times - The Diana myth, by Germaine Greer
(I should say: I usually avoid Diana stuff and I usually avoid Ms Greer and certainly don’t link to either, but this has a unique historical perspective I would have liked quoting at one point.)
Sunday Telegraph - Social acid has burnt the heart of Britain. By John O’Sullivan
This one was a good read, combined with:
Sunday Telegraph - Fight crime by stamping out the seedbed. By Norman Dennis
The Sunday Times - The emperor with an ego big enough for all time
PROFILE: Qin Shi Huangdi
That was was really interesting.
Steyn Online - HOLD THE TEDDY BEARS
On the Elvis, Diana, and 9/11 Anniversaries 5 years ago.
That one’s dated 7/2, but I swear when I read it Saturday I hadn’t read it before, but who knows. You probably could have put The Three Little Pigs in front of me and I would have enjoyed it as an original work.
I feel like I’m probably forgetting something, and I didn’t even get to the blogs, so if you wrote something of interest in the international media over the weekend and think it bad of me to have left you out, do get in touch.
Afternoon proof of life update:
Puppy Whistle - video powered by Metacafe
Oh that cheered me up yesterday (keep an eye on his widdew eaws) (make sure you have audio).
August 27th, 2007 at 7:20 pm
From the comments on the Telegraph article: “John O’Sullivan demonstrates that it always takes a Northerner to do some plain speaking; Southerners are just too obtuse and effete.” Posted by Errol Flynn. Hmmm. He was a Tasmanian.
August 27th, 2007 at 8:54 pm
baffled and befuddled, ninme wikies
Oh my god, Errol Flynn was Tasmanian…
August 28th, 2007 at 3:37 am
Nice Lunar Eclipse on here tonight. Convenient time, and pleasant conditions. That’s my kind of astronomy.
August 28th, 2007 at 3:59 am
We had one which turned the moon red the other year. Spectacular. But not as spectacular on the foaming surf at Yumba that’s in today’s paper here. All the photograph lacks is a beached bulk carrier.
The Punter’s Tasmanian too.
August 28th, 2007 at 5:18 am
The Tasmanian devils. David Niven was a good friend of Flynn of course, and wrote up quite a few of his “episodes” in his (Niven’s) somewhat apocryphal autobiography. Towards the end Flynn seemed to settle and become more thoughtful. He told Niven he had been reading a lot. “Oh, any book in particular?”. “The Bible”.
August 28th, 2007 at 5:35 am
RC2 would have preferred him to have been more specific, one imagines….
August 28th, 2007 at 9:43 am
So, speaking of his wiki, the most remarkable thing happened to his kid.
August 28th, 2007 at 7:19 pm
Not Yumba, Yamba. “North of Sydney” as described in the Daily Mail. In the way Edinburough is north of London. I didn’t see the local news last night. That’s amazing.
The thing is there is absolutely no industrial development in that area, and it is very lightly populated, so it’s not a pollution thing.