Whenever I read these two Roald Dahl autobiographies, I tend to read them together, because they are two halves of the same story. Boy talks about Dahl’s childhood, and sets the stage for Going Solo, which is about Dahl’s career with the Shell Company right before the outbreak of the Second World War, and then …
Daily Archives: 28 March, 2008
Book Seventy-Nine: Dracula
I haven’t read Dracula in a very long time, and I’m not sure what inspired me to pluck it from the shelf last night, but I found myself deeply engrossed in it. The book was certainly different this time than the last time I read it, or rather I have changed enough that my perspective …
Inglenook Cemetery
The cemetery series begins again, thanks to a whirlwind Saturday trip to capture the three coastal cemeteries* we hadn’t shot yet. I’ll start with Inglenook Cemetery, which had to be the smallest and least exciting cemetery we visited. I suppose that’s not too surprising, since Inglenook is one of the smallest and least exciting towns …
Clanking Dishcloths
The International Olympic Committee needs to get its act together, according to Sally Jenkins at the Washington Post. MASSIVE DEFEAT takes pictures. They are neat. Go look at them. Did I mention that they are pictures of Iraq? Green products are all the rage, which raises the question of we know that products are genuinely …