Recent Posts Tagged With 'hemingway'

• Competition time: A Dark and Stormy Night

  Posted on Friday July 10th, 2009 at 16:06 in books, history, language, grammar, competition, snoopy, schultz, hemingway, pratchett, bulwer lytton

  When Snoopy in his guise as ‘World Famous Author’ opened his manuscripts with the words “It was a dark and stormy night”, Charles Schultz was nodding towards the purplest of purple prose: that of the Victorian politician a...

• Unexciting announcement. And Ernest Hemingway.

  Posted on Friday July 3rd, 2009 at 18:12 in books, cats, competition, wildlife, word verification, polydactyl, hemingway, hemingway cats

  Call me an effete, pusillanimous, pathetic fence-sitter if you will — and many have, so you’d be in good company — but I am having the most wretched time deciding on a winner of the Word Verification Competition. The entries are al...

• Some bad art. But not bad enough for you-know-where.

  Posted on Thursday July 2nd, 2009 at 12:46 in art, music, drawing, grammar, moleskine, van gogh, hemingway, phosphorescent, matthew houck

  The Moleskine notebook. Hemingway used. One of. These. So did Van Gogh; and here’s Van Gogh’s very own Moleskine, tantalisingly ajar: Some people still draw and paint some very reasonable stuff in their Moleskines, amply demonstrated at ...