Arts
Friday Night at GP
From time to time it is perhaps appropriate that we should relax a little the bonds that tether us to the straight and narrow. As we all know well, A fitting apologia for a bit of [more…]
DJM
Arts
Nom…Nom…Nom…Nippon
My interest in Japan grew from visits there in the late 1960s, & I must confess I found it hard to make sense of the place at that time. The Eta suppliers encountered there worked [more…]
America
All that Jazz – Part 3 (1962-1965)
“Blue Note Records are designed simply to serve the uncompromising expressions of hot jazz or swing, in general. Any particular style of playing which represents an authentic way of musical feeling is genuine expression. By [more…]
America
All that Jazz – Part 2 (1957-1958)
“Blue Note Records are designed simply to serve the uncompromising expressions of hot jazz or swing, in general. Any particular style of playing which represents an authentic way of musical feeling is genuine expression. By [more…]
History
This is What a Feminist Looks Like, Part 1
Lee Miller was known as one of the most stunningly beautiful liberated women of the 20th Century. Her name often evokes the word “muse” & is closely associated with Man Ray & Paris of the [more…]
America
All That Jazz – Part 1 (1950-1955)
“Blue Note Records are designed simply to serve the uncompromising expressions of hot jazz or swing, in general. Any particular style of playing which represents an authentic way of musical feeling is genuine expression. By [more…]
Arts
The Odyssey updated
The 20th Century produced two updated versions of Homer’s Odyssey. The first was the James Joyce novel Ulysses, which compressed Odysseus’s decade of wandering down to an arbitrary day, June 16 1904, & a single [more…]
America
Tiger – Back from the Brink?
In July 2010 I was enjoying the company of an old family friend Dan, who as a sports journo was over this side of the Pond to cover the summer events in the UK. His [more…]
20th Century
The Price of Life is Death
On the morning of June 6th 1924, at a camp perched at 23,000 feet on an ice ledge above the East Rongbuck Glacier, & just below the lip of Mount Everest’s North Col, expedition leader [more…]