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Get Your Surfing Kicks Here – BBC World News
Below you can watch three very cool BBC news videos about surfing: 1. Huge California waves attract US surfers – 29 August 2014 2. World’s first artificial surfing lake – 21 May 2014 3. Did surfer Andrew Cotton catch biggest…
Tagged with: Andrew Cotton, artificial surfing lake, BBC news, biggest wave, california waves, surfing, World news
Posted in Sport and Adventure
Posted in Sport and Adventure
Hannah and Her Sisters (1986) – Woody Allen
Since I saw Woody Allen’s exquisite Blue Jasmine, I have churned through his movie biography. This afternoon I saw ‘Hannah and her Sisters’ which has been claimed by many as Woody Allen’s Magnum Opus. I thought it was extremely well…
Tagged with: blue jasmine, Hannah and her sisters, Manhattan, Match point, Mia Farrow, Woody Allen
Posted in Movies and TV
Posted in Movies and TV
Richmond Tigers Have a Chance of Making the Final Eight!
Updated 30 August 2014: The Richmond Tigers did make the final eight after a tense win against the Sydney Swans to make it 9 wins in a row! Back in June the Tigers had a 3-10 record and the finals…
Tagged with: Australian football, Gaelic Football, melbourne, Melbourne Cricket Ground, Richmond tigers, Tom Hafey
Posted in Sport and Adventure
Posted in Sport and Adventure
Blue is the Warmest Colour
Yesterday, I did myself a favour and finally got round to watching Blue is the Warmest Colour last years Cannes film Palme d’Or winner. Blue is an extraordinary love story about desire; desire to eat, desire to sleep with someone,…
Tagged with: A Story a day, Bergman, Bertolucci, Blue is the Warmest Color, Brokeback Mountain, Cannes Palme d'Or
Posted in Movies and TV
Posted in Movies and TV
Colombia Bursts into Yellow Euphoria After Historic World Cup victory against Uruguay
The streets of my adopted country are overflowing with joy. Never before had Colombia reached a World Cup quarter final. The previous record, reaching the 1990 eighth finals against Cameroon, had already been equaled by the current team. To make…
Tagged with: Brazil World Cup, Colombia football, James Rodriguez, uruguay, world cup
Posted in Sport and Adventure
Posted in Sport and Adventure
Luis Suarez – ‘I ate his liver with fava beans and a nice Chiellini’
I had to laugh when I read this on the BBC Live reporting of the latest Luis Suarez biting incident: Diego Suarez, who tweets using the handle @suarez is getting a lot of abuse following the controversial Luis Suarez’s incident…
Tagged with: BBC, bite, biting, Colombia, Luis Suarez, uruguay, world cup
Posted in Sport and Adventure
Posted in Sport and Adventure
Ham on Rye – Charles Bukowski
I had been wanting to read a Charles Bukowski novel after seeing the illuminating documentary, Born into this. As Goodreads describes Ham on Rye, ‘Charles Bukowski details the long, lonely years of his own hardscrabble youth in the raw voice…
Tagged with: American literature, Born Into This, Charles Bukowski, Ham on Rye, Henry Chinaski
Posted in Reading
Posted in Reading
