Okay, maybe this thing is rare, precious and unique and maybe it should be Innamuseum, as someone was bewailing on Twitter the morn, but I'm also wondering if everybody who was working there or even just visiting, got a memento piece and museums are groaning when they get offered them.
Much like antiquarian book dealers offered The Family Bible or ( Read more... )

It feels like a while since I've done one of these.

Oh those mean nasty blogger people, dissing on poor innocent Jon Ronson. What is it with journalists who do these personal ramblings columns that they feel obliged, at some point, to do the OH NOES BLOGGERS IS EVUL thing? He almost gets, and then veers away from, the way that online interaction is ( Read more... )

Or, the teeny-weeny things that jar, but aren't they peripheral?

In both the film Kinsey and the Boyle novel on the same subject, The Inner Circle, there are mentions or allusions to penicillin, several years before this came into use. I blame the tenacity of the Fleming myth, because probably anyone looking up 'penicillin' gets Fleming and the ( Read more... )