Macrolog
Macrolog entries posted in January 2011
Weeknotes #481-482 Permalink Sun 30 Jan 2011
Looking back over the last two weeks, I find two prevailing themes: reviewing the past, and predicting the future. The past I’ve already alluded to in my first Blogfodder link dump. Some of those links are nearly eight years old,...
The Cartographers of Cinema Permalink Sat 29 Jan 2011 | 0 Comments
From an otherwise unremarkable interview with the Coen brothers in The Guardian last week on release of their latest, True Grit, there’s this: It is their 14th to date, and the latest instalment in what appears to be a concerted...
Blogfodder Link Dump Part 1 Permalink Wed 26 Jan 2011
The ‘Blogfodder’ folder in my bookmarks is a bit of a catch-all location for any interesting links I find and might want to explore later in more detail. That was the intention, anyway — over the years it’s completely outgrown...
Weeknotes #480 Permalink Mon 17 Jan 2011
I’ve been ploughing through The Creation Records Story over the past few days. By now I’m at the stage where my interest is trailing off – I can’t stand Oasis – but that’s only the last couple of hundred pages;...
Notes from New York Permalink Fri 14 Jan 2011 | 0 Comments
My intention was to keep a mini-journal of our six-day trip in New York last summer. I even bought one of those Moleskine city guides as the perfect notebook for my observations. Sadly the day-to-day busyness and exhaustion put...
Weeknotes #478-479 Permalink Mon 10 Jan 2011
Everything gets back to normal a little too quickly post-Xmas, don’t you think? Little to report from Week 478. No big New Year’s Eve partying for us, just lunch at Nando’s and adding to our puppet collection. Seriously – The...
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This page is a reverse chronology of Macrolog entries by MacDara Conroy published in January 2011. You will find many more in the Archives.
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