A smidgen of linkspam
Dept of Inadequately Researched:
Sue Arnold clearly did not listen to the entire 51 hours: Hurrah for Hannay!, by John Buchan, read by Peter Joyce (51hrs unabridged, Assembled Stories, £84.95), or she might possibly have discovered the moderation of Hannay's views on women once he meets Mary (I am totally in concurrence with the view that when he spots her dressed up like a tart and plastered all over some guy's shirtfront in a sleazy nightclub, and his immediate reaction is that she's undercover for purposes of plot unravelment, is awesome).
Kate Mosse: 'The government has little idea of what skilled and trained librarians actually do' and I'm not entirely sure that she does either, but at least she thinks they are a Good Thing with Professional Skills (and doesn't invoke tedious stereotypes like motivational speaker-person at compulsory work course - an entire morning during which I was contemplating gnawing my arm off - who, speaking to a group working in an academic research library with no lending, alluded to 'stamping books').
Has Oliver Burkeman ever visited any social networking site apart from Facebook?: why do we take people we 'meet' on social networking sites at face value. a) Who is this 'we' you speak of, white man? and b) Facebook is not necessarily the forum in which people feel entirely comfortable exposing their angstiness and crises. I am almost tempted to say, 'Hie ye to DW/LJ', but I'm not sure I really want OB poking around and then emitting columns.
Dept of Blend Those Genres!!! Shake em up baby!!!:
Review of an inclusive survey of music that avoids genre distinctions.
Michael Moorcock enters the parallel universe of Insepctor LeBrock and Detective Ratzi.
Night and the City... is the supreme example of London noir and I am wondering whether there is any influence there on the distinctively noir tone of the burgeoning subgenre of London urban fantasy (I think we might call this metropolitan fantasy to distinguish it from the associations of UF?)
Dept of Mai Amazing Ponceyness, let me show u it:
From comments on a previous piece on their Book Blog piece about Babar the Elephant:
Barbar's a pretty basic story on what it is to govern and what governance is under a philosopher king along with the ethical implications of such an undertaking. Yes, there are overt colonialist tones but the main tale is about what it is to be a king and the relationship between the state and the governed. What rights and responsibilities do the citizens owe and does the king owe.
Thanks, I think I will stick with the commentators critiquing its colonialist attitudes...
You don't get out much, do you, Tom Hodgkinson? To me there is no more depressing sight than a five-year-old staring at a screen, unsmiling, mouse in hand. There is no more depressing - no, actually, I can think of lots more depressing sights than a columnist making a sweeping generalisation. Srsly.
Dept of trivialising women of achievement: thanks, Bidisha.
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