Charles Lambert's Blog en-US Fri, 25 Dec 2009 00:17:17 -0800 60 Charles Lambert's Blog 144 41 http://www.goodreads.com/images/layout/gr_logo_144.jpg /author/show/696572.Charles_Lambert/blog/260212-eartha-kitt-with-james-dean Fri, 25 Dec 2009 00:17:17 -0800 <![CDATA[Eartha Kitt, with James Dean]]> /author/show/696572.Charles_Lambert/blog/260212-eartha-kitt-with-james-dean One year on...

posted by Charles Lambert on December, 25 ]]> /author/show/696572.Charles_Lambert/blog/257834-the-shopkeeper-is-always-right-well-sometimes Thu, 24 Dec 2009 05:52:36 -0800 <![CDATA[The shopkeeper is always right, well, sometimes]]> /author/show/696572.Charles_Lambert/blog/257834-the-shopkeeper-is-always-right-well-sometimes profumeria last Sunday. This particular profumeria is the size of a large provincial bookshop (in a town that doesn't have a bookshop), its walls and shelving units lined with exquisitely packaged small bottles containing liquids of no intrinsic value at prices that would make a homoeopath blush. I mention it because, on the way out, a radio announcement said that Berlusconi was due to be released from hospital that day. The shop-owner, a middle-aged woman, commented: 'As...

posted by Charles Lambert on December, 24 ]]> /author/show/696572.Charles_Lambert/blog/255892-satin-and-tat Mon, 21 Dec 2009 00:14:18 -0800 <![CDATA[Satin and tat]]> /author/show/696572.Charles_Lambert/blog/255892-satin-and-tat Posted by Picasa

posted by Charles Lambert on December, 21 ]]> /author/show/696572.Charles_Lambert/blog/255232-news-from-the-very-dark-cave Sun, 20 Dec 2009 02:21:51 -0800 <![CDATA[News from the very dark cave]]> /author/show/696572.Charles_Lambert/blog/255232-news-from-the-very-dark-cave The region of Emilia-Romagna has recently established that couples, including those with children, (in lay speak, 'families') are entitled to welfare provisions whether they're married or not. This has attracted the anathema of the local befrocked wingnut cardinal, a certain Signor Caffarra, the sour-faced old biddy on the right. He has announced that 'God will judge them.' Until such judgement is carried out, as the Great One's self-elected mouthpiece, he accuses the council of wanting to...

posted by Charles Lambert on December, 20 ]]> /author/show/696572.Charles_Lambert/blog/254699-no-b-day-two-weeks-late Wed, 23 Dec 2009 23:12:27 -0800 <![CDATA[No-B Day (two weeks late)]]> /author/show/696572.Charles_Lambert/blog/254699-no-b-day-two-weeks-late Not hot news, I'm afraid. I wrote the following piece the day after the No-Berlusconi Day march in Rome almost two weeks ago, then put it to one side to settle. Well, it has, and there's nothing I want to change, so here it is.

The day after No-B Day, the anti-Berlusconi march in Rome, the war of numbers is in full swing. For the organizers, the demonstrators were over a million, for the police no more than ninety thousand. According to La Repubblica, one of the two Italian newspapers...

posted by Charles Lambert on December, 23 ]]> /author/show/696572.Charles_Lambert/blog/251094-man-meets-small-spiky-object-object-wins Wed, 16 Dec 2009 10:29:21 -0800 <![CDATA[Man meets small spiky object. Object wins.]]> /author/show/696572.Charles_Lambert/blog/251094-man-meets-small-spiky-object-object-wins Berlusconi's bloodied nose is already an exquisitely political space, populated on the one hand by those who see the Capo's body as sanctified ground and therefore untouchable (i.e. his supporters) and on the other hand by those who see his body as sanctified ground and therefore untouchable (i.e. the opposition). Of course no politician is going to say that small spiky objects should be thrown at one of the caste, and I don't expect them to. But it really shouldn't be that difficult to...

posted by Charles Lambert on December, 16 ]]> /author/show/696572.Charles_Lambert/blog/249460-how-many-words-a-minute Fri, 25 Dec 2009 22:39:33 -0800 <![CDATA[How many words a minute?]]> /author/show/696572.Charles_Lambert/blog/249460-how-many-words-a-minute

posted by Charles Lambert on December, 25 ]]> /author/show/696572.Charles_Lambert/blog/249339-charlemagne-ok-but-louis-the-pious Sun, 13 Dec 2009 07:54:55 -0800 <![CDATA[Charlemagne OK but Louis the Pious?]]> /author/show/696572.Charles_Lambert/blog/249339-charlemagne-ok-but-louis-the-pious Greetings from Amazon.co.uk,

As someone who has purchased or rated On Sparta (Penguin Classics) by Plutarch or other books in the Historical > BCE-500 AD category, you might like to know that Charlemagne and Louis the Pious: Lives by Einhard, Notker, Ermoldus, Thegan, and the Astronomer will be released on 15 December 2009. You can...



posted by Charles Lambert on December, 13 ]]> /author/show/696572.Charles_Lambert/blog/248979-cubism-in-the-round Sat, 12 Dec 2009 12:21:18 -0800 <![CDATA[Cubism in the round]]> /author/show/696572.Charles_Lambert/blog/248979-cubism-in-the-round Erin.)


posted by Charles Lambert on December, 12 ]]> /author/show/696572.Charles_Lambert/blog/248980-must-be-santa Tue, 15 Dec 2009 06:46:51 -0800 <![CDATA[Must be Santa]]> /author/show/696572.Charles_Lambert/blog/248980-must-be-santa Twelve Gays of Christmas. It's Dylan, who can (almost) do no wrong, and I think it's played straight, because otherwise it would be plain silly.


posted by Charles Lambert on December, 15 ]]>