Recently readI am heading to Spain tomorrow and Gibraltar on Wednesday (yep, it’s work). If jet lag can kill you, I’ll soon find out. More later in the week, I guess.
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Okay, I’ll join the fray, but only because I already got a ton of Christmas presents last week (I celebrated early with my family in Ohio, since I will be in London for the holidays; plus I bought myself a few nice things). Trust me on these:
1) Lancome mascaras. Lancome makes the best mascaras, but […]
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Okay, forget that last post: Time away is a very good thing. I miss my family already. And how could I not miss this view from my dad’s front porch?
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I hate holidays. They’re more trouble than they are worth, what with all the time spent worrying about what’s going on at work while also trying to relax and not seem distracted. You get all the guilt of not being at the office AND all the guilt of not being able to chill out properly. […]
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I don’t have the words to express how much I love being with my family. I’m sure the rarity of our visits enhances my enjoyment of them, but every day I seem to laugh harder and marvel more at how fortunate I am to have such kind, funny, and clever people as my kinfolk.
The […]
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FYI: I’m in the US for Thanksgiving, so blogging should be light while I get heavier.
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I was very amused to see my friend Adriana Cronin-Lukas’s picture on the cover of - and many times inside - the Guardian yesterday. So it’s good timing, for several reasons, for her to publish her story of growing up under communism, and the events that changed everything.
I knew that I had no control […]
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I just realised that Ian Kennedy has left Six Apart and joined Yahoo. I met Ian when I was working in California earlier this year, and really liked him. Lucky Yahoo.
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This is going to make me sound like a total a-hole, but yesterday I had lunch at the Ivy and then dinner at Angela Hartnett’s MENU at The Connaught. I know that you go to the Ivy for the celeb-spotting and puddings (can’t go wrong with the rice pudding) and to MENU for the food, […]
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Things are crazy busy, but I must stop to tell you all about something wonderful from the great brains behind Zopa, which is itself pretty wonderful. Here’s the Zopa business model:
Zopa lets people who have spare money to lend it directly to people, like them, who want to borrow it. No bank in the middle, […]
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My and Antoine’s fellow Samizdata contributor Findlay Dunachie has died. We are both greatly saddened by this news, and the world is poorer for the loss of this scientist and eloquent, capable critic of factually bankrupt environmentalists and hysteria mongers. Brian Micklethwait has written a lovely and fitting eulogy for Findlay, which will be […]
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Amy Alkon’s comments on the riots in France are as good as any I’ve read elsewhere. Antoine’s family there seems pretty unaffected by it all, to the point of not mentioning it at all in phone conversations.
Antoine’s take? The original rioting was just jerks being pissed off and seeing an opportunity to loot, and […]
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I actually bought the latest issue of Vanity Fair, for the first time in something like ten years. After spending two minutes trying to read all the good parts as I stood in WH Smith’s, it struck me that perhaps this issue was actually worth paying for. So I did.
And…wow. There is some serious […]
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I considered writing about why I am not writing here so much lately. Then I decided against it, telling myself that nobody cares (people write me coaxing emails to be charitable), I reveal too much here already (morning-after cringes brought on by self-revelation know no match), and there’s no way of putting it into words […]
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