Itinerant Traveller Turns To Kickstarter To Raise Money For Wilco Disaster Songs
The mythology around Wilco’s fourth studio album Yankee Hotel Foxtrot – a canny classic of early-noughties country-tinged alternative rock – remains today well known and well worn. And if you are well known and well worn better to be well loved, and today it remains that people are fond of Yankee Hotel Foxtrot at least pretty much. After frontman Jeff Tweedy…
‘Filling Station’ by Elizabeth Bishop (1965)
Oh, but it is dirty! —this little filling station, oil-soaked, oil-permeated to a disturbing, over-all black translucency. Be careful with that match! Father wears a dirty, oil-soaked monkey suit that cuts him under the arms, and several quick and saucy and greasy sons assist him (it’s a family filling station), all quite thoroughly dirty. Do they live in the station?…
As Comey Ate His Dinner, Trump Turned To Song In An Effort To Woo
Serenading James Comey over dinner in late January, we do not know whether Donald Trump doled out two scoops of ice cream or especially creamy chocolate pie. But as he sought to win the affection of the now former FBI Director, the fledgeling President – a man known to struggle with his reading – showed a surprisingly diverse penchant for…
Punctured By Her Own Stiletto: The Story Of The 2017 General Election
Amid the uncertainty of a hung parliament, what can hardly be overstated about the 2017 general election result is just how much of a disaster it represents for Theresa May. Having called an unnecessary election believing herself in a position of barely-precedented strength – despite repeatedly vowing no snap election, with her spokesman reiterating the point less than a month before…
‘Evidence Read at the Trial of the Knave of Hearts’ by Lewis Carroll (1865)
They told me you had been to her, And mentioned me to him: She gave me a good character, But said I could not swim. He sent them word I had not gone, (We know it to be true): If she should push the matter on, What would become of you? I gave her one, they gave him two, You…
Trump’s Hasty Withdrawal Leaves Defiled Paris Climate Agreement
After teasing and tormenting his fellow world leaders and pledging an announcement only sometime this week, finally on Thursday – in the White House Rose Garden, surrounded by anti-environmentalists for the sort of bathetic display which has come to characterise every administrative ‘success’ – Donald Trump confirmed that he is pulling the United States out of the 2015 Paris Climate Agreement….
Monthly Horoscopes: June 2017
Aries (20 March – 19 April) More and more every day your partner is acting like an infant, and you wish to practise the art of swaddling, only wrapping up extra tight. * * * Taurus (19 April – 20 May) Mmm, Belgian pralines, île flottante, how utterly delicious, those macarons might be sheer divinity, but you’re at a time in your life…