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Old blog about Roland Barthes - whose birthday it is. Only he's 110 now - not 100.
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Happy Birthday Roland Barthes. Seriously having fun.
It’s fair to say that by the time Barthes taken proper time to consider the semiotics of a birthday cake, particularly if he were still alive to count all those candles. The icing would have…
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November 12, 2025 at 5:19 PM
Old blog about Roland Barthes - whose birthday it is. Only he's 110 now - not 100.
conradbrunstrom.wordpress.com/2015/11/12/h...
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Stay put. Don't go to London. The Fifth Season of Only Murders in the Building reviewed. conradbrunstrom.wordpress.com/2025/11/10/s...
Stay put. Don’t go to London. The Fifth Season of Only Murders in the Building reviewed.
It took us a while to catch up with this season – we were neither of us in a bingeable place. And the series ending left us with a disquieting possibility. It looks as though Season 6 may be …
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November 10, 2025 at 10:18 AM
Stay put. Don't go to London. The Fifth Season of Only Murders in the Building reviewed. conradbrunstrom.wordpress.com/2025/11/10/s...
However a speech might have been edited for a documentary - there can be no doubt that Trump steered an angry mob at the Capitol and did nothing to stop them for hours when they turned violent. That's treason.
November 9, 2025 at 6:29 PM
However a speech might have been edited for a documentary - there can be no doubt that Trump steered an angry mob at the Capitol and did nothing to stop them for hours when they turned violent. That's treason.
Pleasures of Imagination. Happy Birthday Mark Akenside conradbrunstrom.wordpress.com/2019/11/09/p...
Pleasures of Imagination. Happy Birthday Mark Akenside
Born OTD on 1721, the geordie medic Mark Akenside is thought to have had possibly the worst bedside manner of any eighteenth century doctor not actually part of the navy. He was reputed to have da…
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November 9, 2025 at 10:17 AM
Pleasures of Imagination. Happy Birthday Mark Akenside conradbrunstrom.wordpress.com/2019/11/09/p...
Lennon remembers William Mann conradbrunstrom.wordpress.com/2025/11/08/l...
Lennon remembers William Mann
In many ways, Arthur Janov was one of the more disastrous people John Lennon ever met. Janov’s primal scream therapy did I suppose inspire an album many regard as a masterpiece. Actually it i…
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November 8, 2025 at 5:50 PM
Lennon remembers William Mann conradbrunstrom.wordpress.com/2025/11/08/l...
Reposted
Rosalind Franklin
Leaving her notes in a pile
That she keeps by the door
Who is it for?
Awful James Watson
Stealing the credit
And snaffling all the awards
Misogynist bore
Leaving her notes in a pile
That she keeps by the door
Who is it for?
Awful James Watson
Stealing the credit
And snaffling all the awards
Misogynist bore
November 7, 2025 at 10:45 PM
Rosalind Franklin
Leaving her notes in a pile
That she keeps by the door
Who is it for?
Awful James Watson
Stealing the credit
And snaffling all the awards
Misogynist bore
Leaving her notes in a pile
That she keeps by the door
Who is it for?
Awful James Watson
Stealing the credit
And snaffling all the awards
Misogynist bore
Closer. Desperate Thespians in Maynooth conradbrunstrom.wordpress.com/2025/11/07/c...
Closer. Desperate Thespians in Maynooth
There’s a reason why Patrick Marber’s play continues to compel and find itself restaged so often. It is a remarkably eloquent play, turbo-charged with memorable one-liners to take home …
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November 7, 2025 at 6:37 PM
Closer. Desperate Thespians in Maynooth conradbrunstrom.wordpress.com/2025/11/07/c...
The Gunpowder Plot - one authentic victim? conradbrunstrom.wordpress.com/2013/11/06/t...
The Gunpowder Plot – one authentic victim?
Reflecting on the Gunpowder Plot yesterday, I neglected to say anything about the one real victim of the whole affair – Father Henry Garnet. Garnet was an English Catholic priest who refused…
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November 6, 2025 at 8:52 PM
The Gunpowder Plot - one authentic victim? conradbrunstrom.wordpress.com/2013/11/06/t...
Remember, Remember the 5th November - Gunpowder "Treason" and Not Being All That Bright conradbrunstrom.wordpress.com/2013/11/05/r...
Remember, Remember the 5th November – Gunpowder “Treason” and Not Being All That Bright
A few seasonal reflections – inadequately joined up… “Treason doth never prosper – what’s the reason? For if it prosper none dare call it treason.” The idea that…
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November 5, 2025 at 10:27 AM
Remember, Remember the 5th November - Gunpowder "Treason" and Not Being All That Bright conradbrunstrom.wordpress.com/2013/11/05/r...
Happy Birthday George Boole, James K. Polk and Marie Antoinette conradbrunstrom.wordpress.com/2015/11/02/h...
Happy Birthday George Boole, James K. Polk and Marie Antoinette
So many birthdays. Such cakes (“let them eat cakes”). So many candles. I know far too many mathematicians to dare to say anything about George Boole, born today in 1815. It’s al…
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November 2, 2025 at 3:47 PM
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The 270th anniversary of the Lisbon earthquake. Visit "Quake". conradbrunstrom.wordpress.com/2025/11/01/t...
The 270th anniversary of the Lisbon earthquake. Visit “Quake”.
Quake is a museum in Lisbon that offers all the immersive excitement of the 1755 Lisbon Earthquake. I think what you’re thinking… too soon? This was the worst disaster to befall a heavi…
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November 1, 2025 at 1:02 PM
The 270th anniversary of the Lisbon earthquake. Visit "Quake". conradbrunstrom.wordpress.com/2025/11/01/t...
Keats and Proust. For Keats' Birthday. conradbrunstrom.wordpress.com/2019/10/31/k...
Keats and Proust. For Keats’ Birthday.
Today is Keats’ birthday. Imagine if instead of celebrating all things spooky on this one day of the year we instead celebrated all things Keatsian? What if throughout the month of October …
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October 31, 2025 at 10:28 AM
Keats and Proust. For Keats' Birthday. conradbrunstrom.wordpress.com/2019/10/31/k...
Reposting on the occasion of Julia's birthday. Waiting in the Wings. I Claudius - Part 3. Reviewed. conradbrunstrom.wordpress.com/2021/10/01/w...
Waiting in the Wings. I Claudius – Part 3. Reviewed.
We must sadly reflect on the truncated legacy of Damien Angadi. Born into a fascinating highly cultured and politicised family he was a boy treble of note, and a Cambridge choral scholar, before be…
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October 30, 2025 at 10:15 AM
Reposting on the occasion of Julia's birthday. Waiting in the Wings. I Claudius - Part 3. Reviewed. conradbrunstrom.wordpress.com/2021/10/01/w...
Some people do "Dry January" every year. We do "Dry November". It makes Christmas merrier and Halloween far more terrifying.
October 29, 2025 at 7:41 PM
Some people do "Dry January" every year. We do "Dry November". It makes Christmas merrier and Halloween far more terrifying.
Give the people what they want... The Wrath of Khan, rewatched. conradbrunstrom.wordpress.com/2025/10/29/g...
Give the people what they want… The Wrath of Khan, rewatched.
Following the perceived disappointment of Star Trek, the Motion Picture, Nicholas Meyer directs a second Star Trek film which essentially gives the people what they want. For one thing, there is a …
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October 29, 2025 at 2:58 PM
Give the people what they want... The Wrath of Khan, rewatched. conradbrunstrom.wordpress.com/2025/10/29/g...
Happy Birthday Dylan Thomas. Quieter Birthday Sylvia Plath. conradbrunstrom.wordpress.com/2014/10/26/h...
Happy Birthday Dylan Thomas. Quieter Birthday Sylvia Plath.
Dylan Thomas was born OTD in 1914. Of course, like most people born in 1914, he’s no longer with us. Dylan Thomas was never going to make it to 100. Or 80. Or 60. Or 40 in the event. Alo…
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October 27, 2025 at 5:06 PM
Happy Birthday Dylan Thomas. Quieter Birthday Sylvia Plath. conradbrunstrom.wordpress.com/2014/10/26/h...
It occurs to me that contestants on Traitors have to suffer a fortnight of psychological torture to get their hands on the sort of money that players on The Wheel can win in about five minutes.
October 25, 2025 at 8:03 PM
It occurs to me that contestants on Traitors have to suffer a fortnight of psychological torture to get their hands on the sort of money that players on The Wheel can win in about five minutes.