In the final extract from our serialisation of Blogmanship (available to buy here), Noseybonk looks at some special cases, including the most Blogmanlike positions to take on every topic, and women and blogging... Je t’aime… moi non plus Baudelaire, Fleurs du mal (1857) Hostmanship The blogman owner of the blog on which debate occurs ... Read More...
Month: May 2011
It’s quiz time in Key’s Cupboard this week. Here are nine passages of sober and sensible prose from some of the most sober and sensible works of the middling years of the last century. Read them carefully and then, using skill, judgment, and Brian Eno’s Oblique Strategies, match the passages ... Read More...
Mr Slang invites us to join him in a glass of the blue stuff... O for a beaker full of the warm South Full of the true, the blushful Hippocrene, With beaded bubbles winking at the brim, And purple-stained mouth Keats ‘Ode to a Nightingale’ (1819) If Dabblers have a fault it is, I fear, refinement. ... Read More...
In the fourth extract from our serialisation of Blogmanship (available to buy here), Noseybonk looks at some of the advanced techniques of winning internet arguments, including a methodology for squirming out of argyments you have clearly lost... “Gras-tyme is doon, my fodder is now forage.” Chaucer – The Canterbury Tales, The Reeve’s ... Read More...
The first warm rains have cracked summer open and, as we contemplate the liquid blue sky and ponder what it means for the weekend’s barbecue, we’re forced to contemplate the vexed issue of raw vegetables. Salads are generally an after-thought in the British kitchen. The standard offering is a condensation-heavy bag ... Read More...
In the third part of our exclusive serialisation of Blogmanship (available as an eBook from Amazon or as a PDF here), Noseybonk looks at how Britons and Americans can go 'one-up' on each other on the internet... “….America [!]…” Henry James – The Turn of the Screw Special Relationshipmanship: The Shrunken Pond One of ... Read More...
I’ve never met Tim Goodman. I don’t know what he looks like [see above, Ed.]. I don’t know what he does most of the time. I don't know if that's his real name or a professional nom de plume. I don’t even know which country he lives in. Or if ... Read More...
Continuing our serialisation of the new handbook – The Theory and Practice of Blogmanship – or How To Win Arguments On The Internet Without Really Knowing What You Are Talking About (available as an eBook from Amazon or as a PDF here.) In this second extract, Noseybonk moves on to the ... Read More...
Yesterday, I had a glimpse into another world. It was afforded by a handful of remarkable works by Zoran Mušič in the Estorick Collection's latest exhibition (Double Portrait: Ida Barbarigo and Zoran Mušič, to 12th June). Large, figurative oil paintings, including portraits of the artist and his wife (above), they were executed ... Read More...
According to recent studies, arguing on the internet is now the second most popular leisure activity in the world, just below shopping and just above sex. But how many of those who spend half their lives debating God versus Atheism or Climate Change on a message board or blog really ... Read More...
