Anarchy in New York City

4 years ago

The US Department of 'Justice' declared this week that New York City -- along with Portland and Seattle -- to…

A Heap of Broken Images

4 years ago

What are the roots that clutch, what branches grow Out of this stony rubbish? Son of man, You cannot say,…

A Street in London W11

4 years ago

Six stops on the Hammersmith and City from Euston Square to Westbourne Park, up the stairs, along the bridge over…

School Sabotage and Survival

4 years ago

I've just read Back To My Beginnings by Paddy Staplehurst. It's a memoir of growing up in St. Etheldreda's in…

Bread Baking Freestyle

4 years ago

I enjoy reading the daily newsletter from the cooking crew at the NY Times. Always some interesting new ideas and…

Gertrude Stein: Collage and Code

4 years ago

While T.S.Eliot was skulking about in green face powder, Gertrude Stein was communing with Cubists and inventing linguistic collage. And…

In the Salon with Gertrude Stein

4 years ago

It takes a lot of time to be a genius, you have to sit around so much doing nothing, really…

A Little Called Gertrude Stein

4 years ago

There, there, said the parent to the anguished child whose ice cream fell to the gutter. There! There! said the…

Imagine My Outrage

4 years ago

I used to have a really huge garden with hundreds of feet of soaker hose and a TroyBuilt Pony rototiller…

Roadside Attractions

4 years ago

The frogs were in fine parliamentary form this morning. Nothing like a heavy downpour to cheer them right up. Rabbits…