Bowblog

Year: 2004

  • Beslan

    Is it possible (advisable, acceptable?) to blog Beslan? Blogging is such an utterly trivial thing to do with your time that even mentioning the apocalypse that overtook that town in…

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  • Better than the Oscars

    I’m dizzy with American politics. I’ve been watching C-Span’s coverage of the Republican Convention (via BBC Parliament). The convention’s a kind of collapsed super-dense cloud of rhetoric, sentiment, aggression and…

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  • Accidental pavement art

    Don’t ask me why I took these photographs. I think they look like a Sol Lewitt photogrid…

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  • Mosquitos

    One of our favourite local treats is the shabby but brilliant de Havilland Aircraft Heritage Centre, which everyone knows as the Mosquito Museum. Here they made the first handful of…

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  • Explorer users, meet my right-hand nav bar…

    The esteemed Phil Gyford took about five minutes to figure out why my weblog wasn’t working properly in Explorer after about six months of pointless fiddling and winging on my…

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  • Olympics and spectacle

    TV still has the power to knock your socks off. I’m thinking about the Olympics, of course. Some people are probably calling this the ‘red button’ games (at least in…

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  • Dragon slain?

    The Komodo Dragon is the largest lizard in the world, a member of the Monitor family (and quite closely related to snakes). It’s been around since before the dinosaurs, runs…

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  • Old punks

    Jamie Reid’s cover art was the ultimate ‘fuck off’ to our parents’ generation and all that fuss about the Queen and EMI was intoxicating if your last album purchase was…

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  • Convenience? This is war

    When the supermarkets abandoned the High Street for their out-of-town barns the damage done to local communities and economies was enormous and permanent. Now they’re coming back, this time in…

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  • Folk justice

    Sophisticated it ain’t. Taking a man’s lottery winnings away from him fifteen years after he was convicted and sentenced may sound Mediaeval to you but I suspect there’s worse to…

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