Posts Tagged ‘england’
One tweet. Four deliberate, purposeful lies.
This tweet got a little loss in the political firestorm of the last couple days, which is understandable. Not only did Trump disparage Haiti and refer to African countries as “shitholes,” but he managed this act of indecency on the eight year anniversary of the Haitian earthquake and on the cusp of Martin Luther King,…
Read MoreKolf: Golf played on ice. And yes, we’re going to play it.
A friend sent me this pen and ink drawing from circa 1620 by the artist Hendrick Avercamp and purchased by King George III. It’s kolf. Golf on ice. Which, of course, is amazing. There’s actually some scholarship on the rise and fall of the kolf (and it’s sister sport, colf), which was apparently (and stupidly)…
Read MoreBare-breasted women are perfectly fine but Dicks was offensive?
Though my most recent novel, MEMOIRS OF AN IMAGINARY FRIEND, is published in England (and doing quite well), I’ve never had the pleasure of visiting the country. But it has come to my attention (through its publisher’s recent defense) that The Sun, a popular British tabloid newspaper, publishes large, color photographs of topless women on…
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