An article on comment policies on news websites completely misses the value and middle-ground offered by ongoing pseudononymous identities, while also grasping that yes, comments on news sites are waaaaaaay out of control.
I am, at the moment, listening to UK political announcements. Their politics are more grim and more like US politics than I would have suspected. On the other hand, seeing that even your conservative party is willing to praise art and literature (and then not denigrate it later) as the opening of a speech is bewildering to me. These things are seen as terrible to at least 50 percent of the US electorate.
My friend Kristin is in Italy right now, studying art history. This is her blog. If you like the idea of private pilgrimages, you should read it.
And, yes, I know the "blip in time" line is actually from the most recent of the radio plays and not the death scene. I was flustered. But hey, look, I really was in Cardiff
My goodness, you had time to see that while you're away? Thanks for the link.
The pictures are lovely and - I never know how to describe that weirdness of combining something fictional with something real, the "I've only seen this on TV and yet I know it and love it" standing next to something as "ordinary" as oneself. (Ridiculous note on that: my first experience of that involved Thomas the Tank Engine.)
I'm reading about the election run-up in the news and it's lovely British, but a bit banal. I can't believe I miss Neal Kinnock, but he did bring a little color and life to the process. This lot make John Major look colorful and interesting.
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Date: 2010-04-14 02:18 am (UTC)The pictures are lovely and - I never know how to describe that weirdness of combining something fictional with something real, the "I've only seen this on TV and yet I know it and love it" standing next to something as "ordinary" as oneself. (Ridiculous note on that: my first experience of that involved Thomas the Tank Engine.)
I'm reading about the election run-up in the news and it's lovely British, but a bit banal. I can't believe I miss Neal Kinnock, but he did bring a little color and life to the process. This lot make John Major look colorful and interesting.