Note for the resident spymaster: watched the first episode - excellent.
Also making my way through the YRF Spy Universe (Prime has all five.) Bond + Bollywood!
The music's pretty good as well - “Banjaara” has a touch of River Dance (we're in Dublin after all...)
Last night while sipping pints and eating delicious snacks (arancini, olives...) at E L Ruddy, designwallah and I reviewed the history of this site and made tentative plans to experiment with it a bit. Some of the general themes (not always captured with tags) were: photography (of various stripes); psychogeography; books; and all things parisienne (we travelled there twice during the blog's early days).
So, for today's experiment, here's something close to my bookish heart - Les bouquinistes.
Article on Lonely Planet about the averted crisis with some wonderful historical photographs.
History on Wikipedia.
The last three posts (not including this one) are dated 2024, 2015, 2011. That's some high-grade octane!
Maybe because I've been looking at “early” web culture through blogs, blogrolls, webrings and the like I've come to enjoy the many blogspot sites that are still out there, either preserved in amber (like this one) or still going boldly forth.
To name but one outstanding example: Ottawa poet Rob Maclennan's above/ground press blog ‑ since 1993! And his personal blog which is a wonderful period mishmash.
I thought that perhaps designwallah and I could take up the pleasurable mantle again from our younger selves (vide our earliest posts) and build something new atop the the ruins of misdirected and broken links.
We'll see...
