This is just so sweet. Harrison Ford marvelling at his younger self being chased by boulders…
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=4aDFeFwxymA&feature=youtube_gdata_player
EDIT: Unfortuntely, I’ve just heard that it’s all a fake. More here http://www.rightthisminute.com/video/truth-about-harrison-ford-watching-indiana-jones
In this short doc Maurice Sendak (best known for Where the Wild Things Are) gives his opinion on childhood, art and writing and he’s as brilliantly curmudgeonly as ever.
This poem was written in 1922 and is still great fun today. Try reading the whole thing out loud and see how your English pronunciation holds up…
The Chaos by G. Nolst Trenité
Dearest creature in creation,
Study English pronunciation.
I will teach you in my verse
Sounds like corpse, corps, horse, and worse.
I will keep you, Suzy, busy,
Make your head with heat grow dizzy.
Tear in eye, your dress will tear.
So shall I! Oh hear my prayer.
Just compare heart, beard, and heard,
Dies and diet, lord and word,
Sword and sward, retain and Britain.
(Mind the latter, how it’s written.)
Now I surely will not plague you
With such words as plaque and ague. Read the rest of this entry »
Artist Yayoi Kusama recently built a plain white installation in an Australian gallery and then gave kids stickers to transform the space over two weeks. The result was a glorious explosion of colour.
More after the jump.
It’s my birthday in a couple weeks. So if anyone’s looking for gift inspiration – (I’m sure most of you are!) – I quite fancy this dog and this Tickle Me Elmo. Thanks!
The Dark Knight Rises trailer has been around for a couple of weeks now and I have to say I was completely underwhelmed by it. However, this parody gave me a giggle.
Although written in the early seventies, Tales of a Fourth Grade Nothing by Judy Blume still
resonates today. We meet nine year old Peter Hatcher who tells us exactly how his toddler brother
Farley has ruined both his and his parents’ lives. Farley, who prefers to be known as Fudge, is two
and a half when the book begins. He’s hyperactive, rambunctious and always gets his way. If things
don’t go how Fudge likes, he throws himself onto the floor, screaming, kicking and banging his fists.
As Peter recounts the many crimes of his brother, we also meet Jimmy – Peter’s best friend – and
Sheila – their infuriating, know-it-all classmate who just happens to live in the same building as the
Hatcher’s.
I’ve redesigned the blog a bit.
Well, quite a bit.
I figured it was time to move away from the dark and dreary cave of Arthur Quinns world since this blog has come to be more about me than about that one book. (Although I will continue to blog about said trilogy!)
Anyway, what do you think?
