I thought I might be reduced to bemoaning the fact that I was obliged to, after resisting it for months, months, go onto Zoom in order to attend the virtual AGM of an organisation of which I have somehow become a trustee.
However, dr rdrz, your hearts will be gladdened to hear that instead of this, I perchanced to come across an interview with the ( Read more... )

I have, my dearios, lately been apprized of a forthcoming work the advance notice for which suggests that the authors of whom the reader will detect 'echoes' are Thomas Mann and Flann O'Brien* (Penguin books tout him as 'Ireland's greatest comic writer', which one must concede must be a hotly fought-over crown).
Quite apart from that being an oddly ( Read more... )

Well, I'm not entirely sure I'd have expected this extraordinary celebration of Shakespeare's birthday in Westminster Abbey: A brawl broke out in the nave of Westminster Abbey on Saturday night with rival gangs noisily attacking each other. It turned out they were Montagues and Capulets - and members of Intermission Youth Theatre who were launching ( Read more... )

For all I know, this was actually promoting a perfectly okay book that I might even enjoy, but somehow I found it irksome: 'If you love historical novels about women who throw off the shackles of feminine convention' -
- partly because it sounded a bit like all those books in which Our Heroine is Not Like Those Other Girls, which is a massively ( Read more... )

Last night I succeeded in foregathering with
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I.e., me, being a historian, addressing a group of women in a particular profession about their own history.
And there was applause, and questions, and comments, and reminiscences that substantiated and illustrated things I'd said, and people coming up to me over coffee and lunch to say they'd enjoyed it, so I think it went okay.
But, I depose, if ( Read more... )

Much of today has been about (mostly) C19th-early C20th German art - Neue Pinokoteck, the Schack Collection, the Stuck House.
On an entirely different note, during our perambulations we crossed a bridge over a waterway which was (not sure of reason) producing a tract of wave-type manifestations, and people were surfing on it - at least, one guy in ( Read more... )

This came through on an academic listserv of announcements (and I have previously noticed some rather, shall we say, odd items making it through to their postings) -

Calling for Entries for inclusion in the International Register of Prominent Academics and Intellectuals Volume 1, 2013-2014

I used to get paper spam in the post for things like that ( Read more... )

My dr rdrz I daresay are already aware that 'Seldom performed Eugene O'Neill plays in obscure venues' are pretty much A Thing with partner and myself.

However, I am not sure that we shall be making the effort for a production of 3 short one-acters happening in a former East End music hall:
The same design team are transforming the bar area, re- ( Read more... )

Particularly beswozzled by the juxtaposition in the FB sidebar just now:
Beat your funeral costs!
Sexy swimwear from £15!
Kill germs with Domestos! (this appears to be a game, rather than a hygienic recommendation)*
+ Short romantic breaks with Hoseasons.

Plus, I think there is some incongruity between the ads targeted, apparently, at people who ( Read more... )