I want to love you, but I know not, how; To call your name – but is there such a name That may become you? To the spheres above I now entrust the knowledge of the same. I barely hope and yet I a...
It’s been a while since I posted any translations from the most adorable Amiral, so I’m about to rectify this omission. I’ve only recently discovered this hit song from 1980s and, as...
I think it was 1988 when in my district in Moscow they began to lay lines. Naturally, everyone was curious, but the answers were vague: it seemed those were the lines for a cable TV channel. Indeed th...
In August 2007 Robin Hamman reported on the BBC Manchester Blog about an earthquake in Manchester. He was rather surprised that very few of us, Manchester bloggers, noticed it. I didn’t notice i...
facebook advertisement Originally uploaded by robinhamman This entire post very closely relates to the phenomenon of social media. Thanks to a good Italian friend of mine, last year I’ve discove...
I will say from the start that this is not indended to be a “comprehensive” critique of this year’s BAFTAs. A couple of times in the past I watched it, always admiring Stephen Fry (a...
There are certain things you don’t realise until some significant time later. I never realised – until just now – that the BBC Manchester Blog was only one (!) day older than my blog...
The text below was written in May 2005, and was the first article I wrote in English, so in essense this was the first non-academic text in English that I ever composed. And it is striking even to me ...
As wonderful as it sounds, there is no guarantee that the snow I saw outside my house this morning will stay for a substantial period of time. On the other hand, for the second year running the winter...
Since 2005 I have been writing about arts and culture (cinema, in particular), and when I used to make The LOOK on QT Radio in Manchester I interviewed several film directors (still under my real name...