In our occasional feature we invite guests to select the six cultural links that might sustain them if, by some mischance, they were forced to spend eternity in a succession of airport departure lounges with only an iPad or similar device for company. Today's voyager is The Dabbler's very own ... Read More...
Film
For much of the 1990s Toby Ash was a regular media commentator on Middle East and international affairs, before descending unexpectedly into the murky world of business and commerce. The Dabbler is pleased to announce that he has now miraculously reappeared on the most south-westerly tip of England from where ... Read More...
In our occasional feature we invite guests to select the six cultural links that might sustain them if, by some mischance, they were forced to spend eternity in a succession of airport departure lounges with only an iPad or similar device for company. Today's voyager is Gadjo Dilo, who brings ... Read More...
In our occasional feature we invite guests to select the six cultural links that might sustain them if, by some mischance, they were forced to spend eternity in a succession of airport departure lounges with only an iPad or similar device for company. Today's voyager is Kevin Musgrove. Kevin was born, twice, in ... Read More...
Some of the most memorable films live on in our affections not just because they're beautifully shot or well acted or superbly scripted or have a wonderful score. Sometimes what really makes them stick in our memory is a song (I'm referring here not to musicals but to films that happen to ... Read More...
In our occasional feature we invite guests to select the six cultural links that might sustain them if, by some mischance, they were forced to spend eternity in a succession of airport departure lounges with only an iPad or similar device for company. Today's voyager is Frank Wilson, former book review editor ... Read More...
In our occasional feature we invite guests to select the six cultural links that might sustain them if, by some mischance, they were forced to spend eternity in a succession of airport departure lounges with only an iPad or similar device for company.You might want to don your regulation-issue Chilean ... Read More...
One of the numerous things that struck me when watching the original 1975 movie Rollerball on TCM the other day – along with how po-faced it is, and how rubbish they were at predicting what the future would look like (mainly they thought by 2010 we’d all have clunky great ... Read More...
In Anthony Burgess’ short story The Endless Voyager, a businessman throws away his passport and wallet mid-transit and, unable to enter any country, spends the rest of his life shuttling from airport to airport. He eventually goes mad. Today, of course, such a traveller might stave off purgatorial insanity by ... Read More...
Laughing out loud is a communal activity...Oh, I expect there’s some tiresome evolutionary psychology explanation based on gibbons and whatnot, but whatever the why and the how, the fact is that it is rare to emit actual physical laughter - even when you find something funny - if you are ... Read More...
