Letter from Atlanta

 

I do miss Letter from America, Alistair Cooke's weekly show on BBC Radio 4. The 15-minute series ran from March 1946 to February 2004, and was the longest running "speech radio" programme in broadcasting history. 

Life At The Top

 

Power! Fame! Women! It's hard to believe but life at the top sucks to high heaven.

Winter in Atlanta

Der Struwwelpeter (1845)

Bare oaks with Struwwelpeter limbs, moaning winds and pewter cast skies, it's winter in Atlanta, the capital city of Georgia. 

Hollywood or Bust?

 

The year is 2015 and it's nigh time for a sitrep on my dealings in the palm fucking world of the film biz. Way baby, let's go!

Yuletide in the Democratic People's Republic of America

Xmas Lunch at Planet Bombay in Little Five Points, Atlanta 2014.

Ding dong merrily on high, it's Christmas time in the Democratic People's Republic of America!

Memories of Москва at Thanksgiving

"Since he was a Diplomat we knew he wasn't going to church."

 

Webster's International Dictionary defines diplomacy as the work of maintaining good relations between the governments of different countries and skill in dealing with others without causing bad feelings. Last decade in Moscow the definition became obsolete. Mass surveillance of the British Embassy was being planned.

Holland Park School: Sex & Drugs & Jihad

 

Last night I dreamt I went to Holland Park School again.