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Bite My Latte: August 2011
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Sunday, 28 August 2011. In this post, I'd like to formally apologise for reaching 43 summers before reading Kingsley Amis' Lucky Jim. Christopher Hitchens is right, it is the finest comic novel of the 2nd half of the the 20th century; but not as right as some bloke called Toby Young, who chucks in the first half as well. Finally, oh fickle Lords of memory, please let the requisite time of forgetting pass quickly, so I can read it again. Labels: Ill-informed Lit Crit. Subscribe to: Posts (Atom).
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Bite My Latte: Grandfathers and War
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Wednesday, 17 December 2008. I don't know if anything particularly profound will emerge from writing this, but, inspired by Pavlov's Cat. I offer this reflection on my grandfathers. Seen here enlisting for service in 1941. On the left, my paternal grandfather, who I never met, though he survived the war. A sapper in the 9th Division, he was wounded in action at the 2nd Battle of El-Alamein. His occupation was listed as 'labourer' upon enlistment. He ended up life as a publican, however. According...No wo...
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Bite My Latte: Larvatus Prodeo: A four-cannon salute
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Tuesday, 10 April 2012. Larvatus Prodeo: A four-cannon salute. Sad news as the good ship Larvatus Prodeo. Hoists anchor and departs the waters immediately to our south. Fort Solor duly issues four-gun salute. Sargento da Costa. Dispara! In addition, Tenente Amilcar has already boarded our caravel A Infanta Beatriz,. To harrass any Holandes who may impede her path. (If you spot him, FFS tell him not to lose our ONLY breech-loading swivel gun, like last time I sent him to New Holland. Under the same names?
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Bite My Latte: October 2011
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Saturday, 29 October 2011. Please invade us and terminate this 300 years of stupidity. Our Head of State can now be a woman. Even if there’s another option. Plus s/he can marry a Catholic (though naturally, she can’t actually be. One, like say, me: a secular atheist who was baptised a Mick – and all my relatives). Obviously, I've always wanted to be part of nation that wouldn't have people like me as top dog. Subscribe to: Posts (Atom). Please invade us and terminate this 300 years of s.
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Bite My Latte: February 2011
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Friday, 11 February 2011. Ngrams - you know you want to. Listen here, philologists amateur and professional: Google Ngrams. Highly groovy. You can check the relative usage of particular words over a 500-year period - and also compare British v American English. For example, ruthful. Blips up in the 1580s before succumbing to its ruthless antonym. And here you'll note that connexion. Was really quite competitive with connection until the 1850s (indeed, it was winning in the early 19th century):.
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Bite My Latte: March 2011
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Sunday, 27 March 2011. Don't blame me, I voted for Pemulwuy. Macarthur replaces Bligh in NSW Rum Corps Rebellion. Subscribe to: Posts (Atom). Dont blame me, I voted for Pemulwuy. Keating Towers, Inner Melbourne, Australia. An occasional blog from my rooms at Keating Towers, on Australian politics, East Timor, and more than is necessary to know about Portuguese forts in Asia. Partially reconstituted in 2010 as a seaborne web-diary of my literature and film pursuits. View my complete profile.
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Bite My Latte: A Bumper Crop of DVD Rankings!
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Sunday, 8 January 2012. A Bumper Crop of DVD Rankings! As Peter Sellers put it in "Being There", I like to watch. This comes straight off my phone, where I record the videos I've watched. Quite a few months worth here. I rank them 1-10, 10 being the highest. The only editing I've done to the list is take it out of chronological order, and group them by score. From D'or. As it were. Occasionally I note the Director's name. Love me no more; Red white and blue; Safe; The night the prowler; Cracks. If you do...
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Bite My Latte: Recent Happysnap
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Monday, 18 July 2011. Wish You Were Here. 19 July 2011 at 12:07. Indeed. Although, referring to the previous post, it is of course the essential contention of this blog that all non-native Antipodeans dwell at the Fortaleza do Solor. Only some of us are looking at as estrelas. Think of us merely as your hosts and translators. And think also of poor Amilcar up on a kite last Tuesday, with charcoal and a canvas. Bom trabalho, Tenente! 19 July 2011 at 12:56. 19 July 2011 at 22:56. 20 July 2011 at 17:20.
