A teeny sampler of linkspam
I've commented lately a couple of times about those FaceBook ads for 'faithful and devoted' single men: I think Stephen Collins has pretty much nailed how I feel about them. It's like he's been reading me, honestly.
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You know, this totally works: Sun Page 3 Girls renact work by Titian. I remember seeing this in the National Gallery of Scotland and thinking it was totally Page 3 Girl, or possibly Miss Wet T-Shirt, of 1520. (Via a discussion on a scholarly listserv.)
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Honestly, Will, are you really, really sure? A century ago, 90% of Londoners' journeys under six miles were made on foot. Trams, buses, underground railway, network of overground railways... plus, a lot of people who lived in London very seldom went beyond their immediate locality, except for occasional excursions, and presumably the work commute if they had one (but a lot of people would have worked fairly locally anyway). And was for his image of the overweight modern day woman too unfit to traverse significant distances, has he ever read any of the degenerationist diatribes against the weedy and feeble if not actually diseased Edwardian urban dweller?
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Okay, am passionate fan of the dramas of Eugene O'Neill (Long Day's Journey into Night West End production next month, tickets all booked up): but I'm not sure I would characterise his contribution to the American stage as 'psychological and social realism'. Huh? I'm also not sure about the claims made about drama in the USA and its history. Because there had to be some kind of environment (e.g. the Provincetown Players) to provide a nourishing soil for him.
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UK Biobank puts medical records of half a million Britons online. And one of them is little me.
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