My friend, the super-lovely Amy Alkon, was physically assaulted in public by a guy who tried to steal her camera…because she took a picture of him and how stupidly and dangerously he’d parked his car. She’s documented the entire infuriating episode (I’m sitting here seething), complete with the guy’s photo. Amy, I would have screamed […]
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Shel Israel, co-author of Naked Conversations, will be throwing a party in San Francisco for me and Adriana just days after we throw one for him in London. Any Bay Area people who want to come along on June 13th, please leave a comment at Shel’s blog or send him an email. (Hell, send me […]
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Which is a total bugger for a Saturday. I’m bored with working, so am stealing this meme from Gwen:
5 snacks I enjoy:
1. Pickles, gherkins, cornichons…anything but American sweet pickles.
2. Skinny Cow ice cream products.
3. Walker’s Light crisps (ready salted, please).
4. Sainsbury’s non-fat cottage cheese with pineapple.
5. Fruit.
5 things I would do if I were a […]
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Here’s what I made and how I made it for last night’s dinner.
One funny thing: We didn’t have any real reason for inviting Tim and Helen round, except that we hadn’t done so since they had their baby in December - and they’d had us over to their place for meals since then. Tim spoke […]
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Ben Casnocha linked to this New Republic cover piece on Oprah (which annoyingly requires registration to read; I’d share the username and password I created for the purpose, but they are disgustingly obscene expressions of my irritation with stupid marketing directors). Thanks, Ben.
I’ve always struggled to succinctly explain what it is I find appealing about […]
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Last night, Adriana and I had a real girly night in (but we kindly allowed Perry de Havilland to make us dinner - smoked mackerel salads). In fact, if we’d done more talking about cute guys and less talking about the network effect, added a bit of nail polish, and eaten even an ounce of […]
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…Not that I’ve made a first comment, but Chris in the comments over at Samizdata pretty much speaks for me on this:
Cultural products like The DaVinci Code are ultimately expressions of ideas, with the power to convince. This power is particularly compelling given the way that imagination has been systematically subordinated to the instant gratification […]
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Since California is where Antoine and I may well end up living someday soon, I care more than usual about this bit of political idiocy. Please, if you live in California, vote against this “Gosh, how could anyone with a heart fail to support it?” measure.
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The ASI is preparing for its annual Tax Freeedom Day party, which will this year be held in June.
Thanks to Gordon Brown, this event is getting later and later in the year. In 2006 we have to work three days more for the tax collector than we did in 2005, and a week later than […]
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I was going to write something about how crappy it is that everyone is just waiting for Britney Spears to make a mothering mis-step, eager to pounce and proclaim her a bad mother, because being a parent is freaking hard. But I didn’t, so am glad I’m not the only one who feels this way. […]
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I had some meetings in the Covent Garden area today, so took the opportunity to spend a bunch of money on stuff I didn’t need. (Actually, that’s not strictly true; I could have spent more, and there is an argument to be had about the difference between ‘need’ and ‘want,’ but that’s another post for […]
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If I were looking for what certain types of people refer to as a ‘proper job,’ I’d be so up for this. Sounds fun.
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When I’ve dipped my toe back into the waters of comments on this blog lately, the results have pleasantly surprised me. Perhaps all the dipshits stopped reading me when I put flowers all over the place. Either way, I’m trying out open comments as default for a while. Same goes for trackbacks. But if the […]
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It was never really about bias, but about the inescapable truth that we each view the world through our own unique prisms, shaped by life experiences and other influences. Non-disclosure of those worldviews just makes things shady. Jeff Jarvis:
[J]ournalists do not own or even decide the truth. It is their job to help the public […]
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