A South Coast beach A view on the North Coast I already told you how I came to love the seaside, and in early July when the weather was nice and hot I longed to travel to the east coast. In nearly six...
I know that when I’ve written Parma Ham, I’m going to dedicate it to the world’s largest direct marketing company. But while I’m writing that one, Reed.co.uk, a UK job advertis...
The film after Stephen King’s novel is counted by many as a favourite for a good reason. Shawshank Redemption is the metaphor for the will to live, the power of focus, the ability to create the ...
This may or may not be surprising, but the song I absolutely love is I Say a Little Prayer for You. It’s a kind of a good omen song: whenever I hear it, good things happen. A dull party begins t...
Moscow tube map with “proper names Considering that Bloggers Portraits are being shot in the studio located on the lower ground floor, that is underground, the theme of “alternative”...
The great American playwright, a winner of the Nobel Prize and the Pulitzer Prize, Eugene O’Neill, not only exerted much influence on American drama, but also inspired parodies. As I’m goi...
When I was still at the academia, I did a bit of research into the speeches from the scaffold. I studied 16th century, as you know, and it registered only few examples thereof. The interest was sparke...
I think I first read about Diane Arbus (1923-1971), when already in England. As Frank van Riper indicates in his article, she indeed is often introduced as someone who documented “the lives of t...
I‘ve said before that, when I came to England, the thing that stood out the most was the absence of books anywhere on display in the house. The majority of houses I visited had books shelved som...
A friend of mine told me recently that this photo of a fountain in the Manege Square looks like it was taken somewhere in Paris. I trust that he knows better; as for me, I’m glad that I was able...