Friday, January 24, 2003

Allohol. Interesting. Gin Tonic as a Malaria remedy? Why not. BBC - History of Gin."1870 - Gin's position in Britain moves up as it grows drier and more refined. "Indian tonic water" is invented to disguise the unpleasant taste of the quinine necessary to fight malaria in the tropics. It combines will with gin and the gin and tonic is born. Martini birth #2: A gold miner pays for a bottle of whiskey in the town of Martinez with a nugget so big he demands an extra drink. The bartender dubs it a 'Martinez'." 5:48:20 PM     |

Etchings. The artist Peter Reichert - a student of Eberhard Schlotter - has some nice Joyce and Schmidt portraits and illustrations on his website. And a truly bizarre article about Arno Schmidt can be found in Hanf! Das Cannabis Magazin ... 2:31:13 PM     |

IRAS is the 'Internet Review Arno Schmidt', a publication of the 'British-American Arno Schmidt Society (BAASS)'. Apparently they like abbreviations. Anyway, it's a very loooong website with interesting articles - mostly in German, unfortunately. 10:14:07 AM     |

Brian Eno writes about America. Interesting article. TIME Magazine | Brian Eno: A European View - Jan. 20, 2003. "To this European, America is trapped in a fortress of arrogance and ignorance." 9:24:46 AM     |

"tube"Crowded? Or Overcrowded? Anger at tube bosses [This is London: London News] 7:17:09 AM     |

"tube"This is really good to know. Tube incident could have been disaster [This is London: London News] 12:14:02 AM     |

Bored? Everybody seems to have been bored by my Groovy collection of links. No comments, just silence. But what if I tell you that page 16 of The Groovy Times has image galleries of the Top Twelve Grooviest Chicks of the Sixties? Mhmmm? Nico is there, Penelope Tree, Anita Pallenberg, Twiggy...! 12:07:18 AM     |