I have no doubt that very many of us – my age and younger, in particular – have known Locomotion as a song by Kylie Minogue. The older Anglophones are likely to remember the original Goffi...
The day I started blogging (24 August 2006) I felt so enthusiastic about it that I produced 5 (!) posts. One of them was the reaction to a news report about Pluto being relegated from the Planet leagu...
I have recently been added as a Flickr contact by someone who was making pictures of Liverpool on exactly the same day – 18th of December – when I visited the 2008 European Capital of Cult...
I have been hearing the birds singing at sunrise for half a month now, and last night the air was full of spring, too. Today, however, when I sat to write a post for my LiveJournal blog wishing everyo...
The word has it that some people don’t understand Gwyneth Paltrow’s recent motivation to do online publishing. Yes, it is true, the Oscar-winning actress is sending out the weekly newslett...
We have heard Kim Carnes’s undying classic song, Bette Davis Eyes; and some of us have even seen the videoclip. But what about Bette Davis herself? Meryl Streep in her pre-Oscar interview to the...
The Arts world was all shook up on Monday 23rd of February 2009 with the news that a portrait of Leonardo da Vinci was discovered by historian Nicola Barbatelli in the village of Acerenza in Basilicat...
Before the end of this week (before Friday 13th, that is) you have the chance to vote for the 13th member of the Shakespeare Hall of Fame. The names range from Sarah Bernhardt to David Tennant, with t...
I deliberately quoted Don Black’s introduction to Monsieur Legrand from the concert’s booklet. I couldn’t think of a better title, given the electrifying performance from Legrand Jaz...
This life does take us to different places. Two years ago Flickr featured Joe Ades, “the gentleman carrot peeler”, who was one of New York’s landmark characters, selling $5 vegetable...