This chap should, at the very least, use wikipedia. Not 100% reliable but he would have been able to check his facts before relating them publicly on television... Or perhaps he should have paid more attention to his history teacher. I mean...

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It looks like I am going to be in the Liverpool Street area this Thursday (21 June) from 1.30-ish to 6, stranded, with nothing much to do but read-write-think. Will anyone be around for a spot of late lunch?

Sorry to make you jealous on a Sunday afternoon. I am loving New York. Lucky me, because I am returning in June. Obv., pics to follow when I get a USB cable.

Since neil_scott and others started posting YouTube favorites, I couldn't help but wondering why most of my life and my memories appear to me as if out of a film. Years ago, I wrote a piece of work called "My life is like an Argentinean Tango" and it is still relevant. I have now understood that it may be like an Argentinean Tango only if the dance or the ( Read more... )

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Yesterday night, I had an epiphany. Like all epiphanies, it came unexpectedly, brought to me by the clever pickwick (hey, nice to see you!) and the dashing Dickon Edwards (hey, what a suit!). Like all epiphanies, especially Eureka! it has something to do with a particular thought that has been bugging me for a while, a thought, however, that is of no ( Read more... )

One of the certainties of life is that the repressed always returns.

To love is to be recognized.

Could someone please go to see the Fischli and Weiss exhibition at Tate Modern and tell me about everything I am missing?