To celebrate the new season: Locke: I’m not lost anymore. Sun: How did you do that? Locke: The same way anything lost gets found: I stopped looking.
Enough people had told me about their disappointing trips to Stonehenge, that I’d lowered my expectations pretty far. The bus trip was long, our tour guide was freaking me out (long story), and I’d overslept enough that breakfast and (worse) coffee were not an option. It’s fair to say that I was about as close [...]
I’ve been reading articles from the Proceedings of the Aristotelian Society since I was an undergrad. I think in the back of my mind I knew it was in London. So I was looking for possible philosophy talks to go to while I’m over here (for the record, the Fixtures List is incredibly useful for [...]
BBC2 had been really impressing me when I first arrived here. At first I was skeptical. Live darts? Repeated twice a day? But then you watch it and … oh my yes. I had no idea darts was such fascinating television. I couldn’t tear myself away from it even with the National Gallery a couple [...]
The British version of Cops is awesome. They have such harrowing adventures as warning a motorcycle driver going 95mph, getting a ladder out of the fast lane, and stopping someone with bad plates that turn out to be legit. Now they’re arguing with an 18 year old about his use of language in the back [...]
It’s such a wonderful word, homesick. Not an illness or a mental deficiency, but a melancholy longing. I don’t think it’s for place or person so much as for familiarity. It’s a word with great rhythm as well, with the same form as lovesick, awestruck, or shipwreck. And I finally have a chance to see [...]
1. You can take your drink (in a real glass!) into the theater. 2. *Everyone* reads the paper. (Sure, some just to read about Britney, but it’s a start.) 3. Pubs aren’t bars. 4. Marks and Spencer’s for groceries (Tesco too for that matter, you have to see it to believe it). 5. Recycling is [...]
I suppose it’s obvious at this point that I can’t sleep tonight. Half of me wants to dive into how the characters from Labute’s play do or do not approximate Kant’s notion of evil. But that would take all night and I’m really supposed to be awake enough tomorrow to introduce my classes. So in [...]
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