Saturday, March 1, 2003

Goil. For my English readers: Fab. Turkey upsets US military plans. A knife-edge vote in Turkey's parliament to allow US troops on Turkish soil is declared invalid. [BBC News | Front Page | UK Edition] 11:24:17 PM     |

Oh Superman. Arrgh ... Just imagine the MAN OF STEEL coming to Earth as a Baby TODAY ... and growing up in the World of TOMORROW! Here's the complete comic. I actually never liked Superman. Batman was always much better and darker. But that particular book is drawn by Curt Swan, and Curt is one of my heroes. 7:04:31 PM     |

German Slang. I'm still getting back to that website: Seit ich an den vermatschten Abend in die Hohensieberg den ganzen Schotter verplästert haben tu, muss ich widder Asche machen. 'Verplästern'! What a wonderful word. 6:16:41 PM     |

Warblogs. The Agonist--by Sean Paul Kelley Well, actually that would have been the Clinton Administration. They created the plan for invading Afghanistan. The same plan that was largely used by the Bush Administration. Bush wasn't planning on bombing Afghanistan before 9/11, he didn't have the domestic support for such an action. 4:32:51 PM     |

One Chord Wonder. Another Wire link: the video In the Art of Stopping. Thanks to Paul for the link. Really: Only one chord! April 26, Barbican ... 1:18:32 PM     |

Fly me to the moon. Nice website about Georges Méliès and his movie Le Voyage dans la Lune. 1:06:15 PM     |

This is brilliant. "how did the awful war start, grandpa?" Via Ye Olde Phart, via Doug's Dynamic Drivel 12:46:57 PM     |

Exactly, part 2. Very interesting article by Kenneth O' Morgan in the Guardian. Guardian Unlimited | Special reports | Him and us As a historian, I worry about the crude use of history, particularly our old friend the 1930s. Time and again we hear that this crisis is the 1930s come again - what nonsense. Saddam is not another Hitler. Where is his Mein Kampf? Where is his dream of universal conquest? George Bush is certainly no Churchill; it would be a calumny on the reputation of that great man to suggest it. It is a facile argument, and it disturbs me that Downing Street produces it, all the more because I taught one or two of them. My efforts were clearly in vain. 11:30:36 AM     |

Exactly. Time will tell. And time and history are certainly not going to tell any good things about you, dear Tony. 'History will be my judge'. PM brushes aside rebels and demos in exclusive interview. [Guardian Unlimited] 10:51:50 AM     |

Insel Felsenburg. Freshly digested from my email comes the website of the Johann Gottfried Schnabel Gesellschaft. And believe me, Schnabels 'Insel Felsenburg' is a very bizarre book. 10:34:45 AM     |

Semi-Old London. For some weird reason I don't seem to have blogged this before, but at least The Aardvark speaks has done so: London's Abandoned Tube Stations. Great anorak stuff, I love it. And if you're about to visit London, have a look at Aardvark's shortcuts, they're brilliant. Last time I saw them mentioned was in a Bill Bryson novel. 1:33:00 AM     |

Old England. Multiple orgasms here: COLLAGE is an image database containing 20,000 works from the Guildhall Library and Guildhall Art Gallery London. Fantastic. Great. Fabulous. View of the entrance to the Thames Tunnel at Wapping; the tunnel connected Wapping and Rotherhithe, and was the first underwater tunnel in the world. It was converted to a railway tunnel for the East London Railway in the 1860's Why didn't I ... 1:06:38 AM     |

Old London. MOTCO is a database of London-related antique maps, prints and books, and certainly worth a look. In fact, it's fantastic. PRINTS - REFERENCE DATABASE The database now contains images of about 3,500 prints of London and Great Britain. These may be accessed via indexes of place names or by the original series in which they were published. We have just added 600 prints from the North Devon Athenaeum collection of William Rock's Topographical Vignettes 1845-1870 . Why didn't I find this earlier? 12:55:52 AM     |