Where have I been all month? Working, sort of. And, um, reading Harry Potter and keeping away from LJ in fear of spoilers (I needn't have bothered: it was disturbingly predictable how things would turn out, with one -- not particularly important -- exception ( Read more... )

This says it all

Wandering around Athens today, you would not know that it is the anniversary of one of the most momentous events in human history. But it is. Yes, on July 4, 2004, Greece won the European Cup.

Yesterday I went down to the Piraeus... (Your starter for ten: locate that first line! Bet no one knows ( Read more... )

Memo to anyone who's going to be in the Bay Area for the rest of this month:

If you haven't booked tickets for every single film in the Pacific Film Archive's Studio Ghibli season yet, DO IT NOW!!!!!!

That is all.

I think you ought to know, I'm feeling very depressed.

But Don't Panic! The good news is that The Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy's opening here on Friday!

At last!

Unfortunately, it's already getting rather late here, so I don't really have time to post properly. But the big excitement this weekend was the Eurovision Song Contest -- a legendary annual event in this continent, which quite simply has to be seen to be believed. It isn't about actual quality in music, or lyrics, or anything else; rather, it's a ( Read more... )

So since I'm on the Classics Dept's mailing list, I got forwarded this e-mail today. [Names removed, because you never know who might be reading an unlocked post, eh, darcydodo?]

( This is so Berkeley. Read it and weep! )

OK, I happen to like France. A lot. And American Francophobia really pisses me off. English Francophobia pisses me off too, but it's less offensive than the American variety -- I mean, come on, there wouldn't be a U.S.A. without France, and aren't those "freedom fries" jackasses obliged to hate the Statue of Liberty, if they really Love America? ( Read more... )

Hey, I just read a report on George Galloway's testimony before the Senate this afternoon. Heh, heh, guess the Yanks didn't know what they had coming from old Egregious George. You can watch it all or read the transcript on the BBC's website (and probably elsewhere too. It's worth reading the soundbites, at least ( Read more... )