I have received a spam email inviting me, and my team at Alpha Chi Omega Fraternity, Inc -
- yes, that is so yr hedjog, no? though I do find on doing a little light googling that at least that body is what I thought one would normally call a sorority? On behalf of the International Trade Council, the Ministry of Foreign Affairs for the Republic ( Read more... )

Spotted across my reading list, a certain amount of indignation apropos of the failure of new film about Darwin to find a US distributor, because you can't really make a film about Darwin without mentioning evolution... and they fear God will smite them, or something. Or probably, more likely, nutters picket the cinemas where it's showing.

However ( Read more... )

On reflection, my reaction to the 'what's wrong with public libraries' question boiled down to the same reaction I've had to similar phenomena in other spheres. It's not so much that I'm saying 'if it ain't broke, don't fix it' or that outreach per se or extension of services is a bad thing, but that what I perceive is a failure to engage with a ( Read more... )

On my mind lately, for whatever reason, was an episode that took place very early on in the Slow-Motion Disastrous Relationship. Possibly because, well, if you'd seen it in a novel you'd have known at once that it had a deeper symbolic resonance.

It was a rather hot, heavy, early summer day - a Sunday, I think, definitely a weekend. And we set out ( Read more... )