Tuesday 13 September 2011 #
Jacqueline Maley, for the National Times:
Opinions of her government’s competence vary wildly, but there is consensus on one point—Gillard’s inability to sell a positive policy message, or to communicate to voters either what she stands for or who she is. The Prime Minister seems to have a profoundly uneasy relationship with the English language.
And later on:
Gillard obfuscates …
Thursday 9 December 2010 #
Jeremiah’s Vanishing New York:
As is often reported, the New York City accent is vanishing. Some people are even paying good money to unlearn it, much like Radio Days’ Sally and her diction lessons. Bronx-born filmmaker Heather Quinlan is working on a documentary all about it. If These Knishes Could Talk is both, as Heather says, ‘an homage to my father and grandparents, who had …
Thursday 9 December 2010 #
This uplifting ditty and accompanying Python-esque video about my favourite refreshment was Kula Shaker’s free Christmas single from 2007!
Sunday 29 November 2009
It’s a frequent problem. Say you have just run into someone who was at one point quite a close friend but whom you haven’t seen for a long time: how does the conversation go? How can you return to your former chumminess after all this time? How do you pick any of the myriad life-experiences you’ve had between your last meeting and now to retell so as to exemplify what has …
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