http://www.niltiac.net Caitlin through the Looking Glass Wed, 14 May 2008 09:42:30 +0000 http://backend.userland.com/rss092 en There's a fascinating article in Granta about the web habits of highly effective people. Being a literary tome, these people are all journalists, writers and bloggers, which suits me fine. Novelist A.L. Kennedy says: "I don’t blog or Facebook. If I want to write, I’d rather do it to some kind ... http://www.niltiac.net/2008/05/web-rituals-v-cyber-slavery/ (link via Mark Jones on Filtered Media). http://www.niltiac.net/2008/05/south-park-on-the-true-impact-of-the-internet/ Summer is here early in London. There are green leaves and flowers all over town, we've enjoyed beautiful sunshine for days on end, everyone is out enjoying picnics in the park, the pubs are doing a brisk trade in cider and Pimms (one of the quintessentially English signs of summer). It's ... http://www.niltiac.net/2008/05/sunshine-in-may/ Probably the best movie I've seen so far this year is Persepolis. It's based on the graphic novel by Marjane Satrapi and it's an autobiographical account of growing up in Tehran and Vienna during the Iranian Revolution. The movie basically animates Satrapi's drawings, so it has a very distinctive style and ... http://www.niltiac.net/2008/05/persepolis-at-the-everyman/ I am blogging about my recent trip over on Roaming Tales. The most recent post is about Granada in Nicaragua, a beautiful colonial city on the shores of Lake Nicaragua. There is more to come, both from Nicaragua and Asia, so please subscribe to the Roaming Tales feed to ... http://www.niltiac.net/2008/04/granada-and-leiths/ #flickr_badge_source_txt {padding:0; font: 11px Arial, Helvetica, Sans serif; color:#666666;} #flickr_badge_icon {display:block !important; margin:0 !important; border: 1px solid rgb(0, 0, 0) !important;} #flickr_icon_td {padding:0 5px 0 0 !important;} .flickr_badge_image {text-align:center !important;} .flickr_badge_image img {border: 1px solid black !important;} #flickr_www {display:block; text-align:left; padding:0 10px 0 10px !important; font: 11px Arial, Helvetica, Sans serif !important; color:#3993ff !important;} #flickr_badge_uber_wrapper a:hover, #flickr_badge_uber_wrapper ... http://www.niltiac.net/2008/04/a-creative-escape-to-devon/ I've turned into Phileas Fogg, except intercontinental jets mean that my globe circumnavigation has taken only 30 days. I left London on 8 March, almost exactly one month ago. Since then I have been to two states of Australia, the United States, Nicaragua, Hong Kong, Cambodia, Kuala Lumpur and Bangkok. I realise ... http://www.niltiac.net/2008/04/around-the-world-in-30-days/ On Wednesday evening I met up with Dominique to go to see Speed-the-Plow at the Old Vic. Dom and I often see plays there together and we like to eat at the Hope & Anchor pub down the road afterwards. The Hope & Anchor is considered a "gastropub" and the ... http://www.niltiac.net/2008/03/speed-the-plow-with-kevin-spacey-and-jeff-goldblum/ Natalie reached the big three-oh this week and last night she celebrated in style in a private room at a bar in Soho called LVPO (pronounced Lupo and meaning "wolf"). There was much dancing and merriment, fuelled by the specially commissioned "Natalka" cocktail and the antics of a hired balloon ... http://www.niltiac.net/2008/02/birthdays-and-balloons/ Since I have just spent two or so weeks in Brooklyn, it is fitting that when I arrived home to London a copy of Betty Smith's classic novel A Tree Grows in Brooklyn was waiting on my doorstep. It was a BookCrossing copy, and had come to me from the ... http://www.niltiac.net/2008/01/a-tree-grows-in-brooklyn/