Today was a stunning day weather wise in Cambridge. I had a haircut, did some gender work, and then went on a 40 minute run down the river all the way to the Lock. One uses the eight boats for company, which diminishes the loneliness of the long distance runner. It was beating with late […]
I am currently sitting in my penthouse apartment in Cambridge, overlooking the river. I ran from the train station to meet my supervisor for a meeting, and sweated all over her computer, and a book on gender in the Deep South she had been sent to review for the historical media. I am now […]
In honour of Pesach, here is a heartwarming blood libel story from the London Arabic-language daily Al-Sharq Al-Awsat, in which progressive Iraqi columnist Khalid Al-Kishtayni recorded his childhood recollections of an encounter with an elderly Jew in Iraq. The following are excerpts from the article:
“The Arabs did not know about this [European belief], but […]
Today I give you a tale of Russian chutzpah. I rowed in a four today, 13k. I am also going to start a training schedule next month for the Amsterdam marathon, which is in October. Anyway, after rowing I got a phone call from the Russian princess. She said:
” ‘Blade’, I am going to […]
Being a grad at my Cambridge College, I am entitled to fortnightly grad halls, which cost 8 pounds. It is served in the very posh and intimate upper parlour, with silver service and butlers, and wine, port, cheese and fruit is included in the menu, along with the rest of the courses. I have […]
It was a strange weekend, mixed with despair and elation. Sunday began with a stunning performance in a sunday ten mile run through the countryside, in which I engaged in a close sprint finish. Saturday began with Arsenal getting into the FA CUP Final. It will be the fifth final I have been to, the […]
As I am back to Cambridge tomorrow for a brutal rowing camp, I shall use up my £150 book prize at Borders by ordering the following books:
(1) Israel in the World : Changing Lives Through Innovation
by Rupert Murdoch (!!) (Foreword), Helen Davis, Douglas Davis
From agriculture to medicine, Israel stands right at the forefront of technological […]
Nest week I begin a gruelling training camp for May Bumps 2005. In honour of this event, I paste a rare copy of a notorious leaked email sent by a Cambridge Blue rower, who rowed in the Boatrace and tried for the Olympics. In this message, written in white heat, he lambasted college rowers such […]
Two important reality telly related observations today:
* If there is anything more forbidding than Saira Khan and her big gob, it’s Saira Khan and her big gob and a megaphone outside Spurs.
* On the excellent C4 show ‘Coach Trip’, which follows lower class Brits on a coach trip around Europe’s cities, with members of […]
On the “whom should you vote for” survey I resulted as strongly Tory, with UKIP not far behind. I was -8 points labour and -16 points Lib Dem. All in all, basically correct. This was their blurb for why I was placed in this category, based on the answers I had given:
“The Conservative Party is […]
The MP Oona King was pelted with eggs and vegetables as she attended a memorial to Jewish war dead.
According to the Torygraph, she was attacked as she joined mourners to commemorate 60 years since the Hughes Mansions Disaster, when 134 people, almost all Jewish, were killed by the last V2 missile to land on London.
The […]
In response to my linkage to a Luso-Judaic blog of interest, which I saw as an ‘alley-way’ into this world, I received the following charming message from one Nuno Guerreiro, of Los Angeles:
‘It’s from Portugal, although I live in Los Angeles. As for the ‘alleyway’… with over 1000 daily readers the Judiaria is a very […]
THE FRENCH GOVERNMENT has destroyed 162,000 copies of the EU constitution because the phrase ‘incoherent text’ was printed on a page by mistake.
This is whom we want groping her way into our ‘island story’.
On this matter, I am currently reading, alongside a tome on the quest for the historical Jesus, a super polemic entitled ‘Vile […]
The Viscount sent me the following poetic reply to a concerned letter that the bog-dweller asked me to send, knowing how well I can craft a message. See my letter below his reply.
From The Viscount:
“The pope may be dead
But tears we shall not shed.
To Rome we go,
Where we shall stroke St. Peter’s toe.
Farewell dear Pontiff,
And […]
From the beginning I have thought that the ‘Divide and Conquer’ strategy might be a factor for New York City 2012’s bid:
I found the following on the front page of today’s GamesBids.com website, which I avidly follow to see if London or Jew York can take down the dastardly, perfidious French Paris bid:
‘AFP […]