Moonballs from Planet Earth
Saturday, 28 April 2012
Showing up: the ingredient that makes the game worth playing, and watching
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“80% of success is just showing up” - Woody Allen. Rafael Nadal steam-rolled Novak Djokovic 6-3 6-1 ...
Saturday, 14 April 2012
What Ross, Chandler and the F.R.I.E.N.D.S really lived through, by Joshua Ferris
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F.R.I.E.N.D.S was more than a successful TV serial, it was a cultural phenomenon. I think it had such a big impact, beyond what one wo...
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Sunday, 8 April 2012
The Mystery of the Pisa Airport Hippos
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Pisa's Galileo Galilei airport is the largest in Tuscany. Hundreds of thousands of tourists will pass through this summer, on their way...
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Thursday, 5 April 2012
Happy Easter from Anthony Gonsalves
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An old friend put me on the spot recently, and quizzed me on how I found the enthu to keep blogging. I wasn't expecting the ...
Monday, 26 March 2012
JRR Tolkien, the lousy teacher
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"At Oxford in the nineteen-forties, Professor John Ronald Reuel Tolkien was generally considered the most boring lecturer around...
Tuesday, 20 March 2012
Slip Slidin' Away into a Bed of Roses
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I've never thought of Paul Simon and Jon Bon Jovi as kindred souls, until these words rolled shortly after each other o...
Thursday, 15 March 2012
Why the Irish, and Indians, rationally believe in fairies
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"Because the upside to disbelief is too small." Zigackly. I picked this gem up from Michael Lewis' hilarious new book, B...
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