May 2010
24 posts
R.I.P. Louise Bourgeois →
Given that it took the art world 70 years to work out what a genius she was, only having 28 years of genuine recognition for her stunning body of work makes it a little unfair that she’s been taken at 98. I think she was owed another couple of decades at least.
Her retrospective show at the Tate Modern just over two years ago remains one of the most stunning sculpture shows I’ve ever...
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Things that are awesome
The Black Keys
Radio 4’s ‘In our Time’
Lasagne with birra Messina at Princi (on Wardour St)
Randomly bumping in to mates
Beer
The scones at Tate Modern
Meeting new people
Beer
Leffe battered fish and chips
Guinness
The Black Keys
And maybe rum and Lost is also awesome… We’ll see.
Everywhere is within walking distance if you have the time.
– Steven Wright (via Leo Babuta)
Nobody trips over mountains. It is the small pebble that causes you to stumble....
– Author Unknown (Submitted by rebby) (via quote-book)
New supernova class may undermine dark matter... →
Seems like excess positrons coming from deep space that have been interpreted as dark matter may actually be due to radioactive titanium being ejected by a new class of supernova. And the search continues…
Magazine-y →
Great little website that reviews magazines. Simple, but cool. (via @emmaatheparty)
Will I ever join a Conservative government? No.
Will I ever join a Labour...
– Nick Clegg (Nick Clegg’s Leader’s Speech, 2008).
Roman Abramovich still owed £726m under complex... →
Some great investigative journalism from David Conn, and a remarkable discovery that the ‘writing off’ of debts owed by Chelsea FC was (unsurprisingly) little more than an accounting trick. The company that owns Chelsea FC still owes Abramovich over £700m.
So what will we wake up to on Friday morning? →
A rundown of the most likely scenarios following todays election. I’ll take any of them after the first two.
Watch this 90-minute attack of overheated José Mourinho-inspired vaudeville a...
– Paul Hayward, Fair Play 0, Foul Play 1 – a cynical classic from the Camp Nou conmen