Some things I really should plug.
Mr MacGowan has made a charity record for Haiti, featuring his friends Nick Cave, Johnny Depp, Bobby Gillespie, Chryssie Hynde, Paloma Faith and others. It’s a rather devilish version of ‘I Put A Spell On You’, and comes out on March 8th. Proceeds go to Concern, the Dublin-based humanitarian organisation [...]
We’re travelling as a strictly un-extended family. Recipients are allowed to bring three guests, so it’s Dad, brother Tom and me. Easily done. I wonder what happens to honorees with larger families – do they draw lots, toss a coin, or argue over a lifetime of point scoring about just who’s been emotionally closer or [...]
Tuesday July 1st.
The journey home is the same heady blend as the journey over: anxiety and luxury. We’re given a stretch limo from the Waldorf to JFK, with full flasks of spirits on board. Except Shane can’t quite indulge to his usual degree. He knows he has to put on a semblance of comparative sobriety [...]
Sunday June 29th:
Day of the Liam Clancy concert in Greenwich Village. Venue is The Bitter End on Bleecker Street (between Thompson and LaGuardia, as they say). I manage to get Shane down to the Waldorf lobby in time for the scheduled lift to the venue, only to find Shane’s not the last one for once [...]
(I’ve spent much of the past few days trying, and failing, to compress the NY trip into 500 words. It can’t be done. Well, not by me. Some stories refuse to be abridged. But I like a nice, rambling tale, the winding scenic route rather than the motorway. So I beg the reader’s indulgence on [...]
Above: my crew pass from the Liam Clancy concert, which was the reason for the trip.
Below: boarding passes. Note scribbled-on upgrade, ensuring I’m seated next to Mr MacG. Which was the whole reason for my being there.
I didn’t take any photos on this trip. Took the camera, charged it with batteries, cleared space on the [...]
The Dandyism website has put the L’Uomo Vogue article online, with a translation:
http://www.dandyism.net/?p=970
Says the site:
Dickon Edwards, who doesn’t typically pontificate on dandyism itself but who is a fine example of a dandy rocker, was also included.
Not a typical pontificator perhaps, but I know my Brummell from my Baudelaire, and my Beaton from my Barbey d’Aurevilly. [...]
Thursday, early afternoon: I’m spending a few hours trying to update the three-year-old DE website gallery with the fruits of more recent shoots by Phoebe Allen (2008) and Gillian Kirby (2007). For each photo I have to make a thumbnail for the menu, which links to a medium-sized version for the website, which in turn [...]
This iBook laptop is starting to throw worrying little fits. Without warning, the display suddenly darkens to black (as if I were pressing the F1 key), the windows slide away to the Desktop – and keep sliding back and forth after that (the equivalent of repeatedly pressing the F11 key), any discs in the drive [...]
A near-Frequently Asked Question from the mailbox:
I have been listening to On Earth to Make the Numbers Up non-stop lately… and, upon hearing the line in ‘Storytelling Johnny’ about t-shirts which proclaimed “Lose friends in days: ask me how”, I remembered that you actually have had such t-shirts (and badges) printed. I was just wondering [...]
