Susan Muncey has been delighting us since The Dabbler's inception with her Saturday Retroprogressive column, which brought to light all manner of curious and wonderful developments in the world of style and design. But what we really want to read about, of course, is Susan herself and her life as ... Read More...
Month: January 2013
On Christmas Day we walked up to the top of Troopers Hill, which affords a wide view of Bristol’s justly non-famous skyline (my city has many fine features; a skyline is not one of them). Troopers Hill is a small, steep, unusual nature reserve surrounded by urbanity, watched over by ... Read More...
From his base in Andalucia (aka Eastenders-on-Sea), Mahlerman's thoughts turn to birdsong and its influence on great music... Close to where I live in London, the gentrification of the old East End continues apace, and if Doug and Dinsdale Piranha were spreading their reign of terror today, they would discover that ... Read More...
In the third part of our 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 the unexpected ... Read More...
Last week I recalled a Scot from my local rugby club who – this was the late-‘70s – adopted the outward signs of being a Frenchman: Citroen DS, Gauloises, vin rouge, beret. An unusual obsession, but an understandable one. After all, has there been a better time and place for ... Read More...
An exciting one-act play to thrill you on a wintry January night... Hast thou gumption, my child? I have oodles of gumption, O mighty Prince! And hast thou pluck? My gumption is matched only by my pluck, O Prince! Then thou shalt not wilt with weediness when I send thee hence to the huge and ... Read More...
As the calendar flips over, Mr Slang's thoughts turn to shysters, splodgers and time's horrid advance... Fugit irreparabile tempus, singula dum capti circumvectamur amore.* Earlier this week the Editors, seeking to place us all – writers and readers both - on intellect’s Parnassus (I first typed ‘top shelf’ but I admit that ... 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...
With the holidays coming to an end, many readers will be turning their thoughts once again to the important business of arguing on the internet. 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 ... Read More...
