I hadn't planned to say anything about Bob Dylan’s Modern Times; what would be the point, with all those words already flyin’ about the æther? But then Neddie went and posted a fine item on the structure of songs, and I felt I had to. Actually, it isn’t only about the structure of songs. It’s ab...
The opening title sequence was really wonderful. That’s not to denigrate the rest of the film, which was just the job for a slightly morose Monday evening. But the book of Thank You For Smoking is funnier and perhaps more interesting. Of course a film can’t often be as nuanced as a book, but fre...
Start: 95.4 Last week: 88.9 This week: 88.1
Tuesday 12 September: Still dropping steadily. For a while there I thought I was on one of them dreaded plateaux, with three days straight at an unwavering 88.5. Then a bit of a blow-out at the weekend and an increase, and now a litle drop. Some people...
Sunday evening, on the way home from a day trip up-country, and the traffic is intense. Bad enough. Then we approach the first of the tollbooths on the way home and the Italians, desperate as ever to Get Ahead, are cruising up any empty lane, assuming they can squeeze in later to where they want to...
From the email alert of today's New York Times:
- QUOTATION OF THE DAY -
"If I didn't believe in God I wouldn't be here, I'd be in a mental home someplace." - IRENE SMITH, of Brooklyn, whose firefighter son, Leon, died in the Sept. 11 attacks.
Of course, in a sane world, the reverse would...
