John Baker's Blog

Posts

• Category: miscellaneous (continued)
  • The Publisher's Pudding (2)
  • The Short-Sighted Super Hero
  • The Tango (1)
  • The Top Ten (5)
  • This Year's Speech
  • Tillie Olsen (1)
  • Today's nice story with Ribena (2)
  • Translated Fiction Anyone?
  • Tuesday Thoughts: 1 (3)
  • Watching better movies (2)
  • What I Did On My Holiday (2)
  • What's your PaSsWoRd? (1)
  • When you catch an adjective, kill it. (1)
  • Who is the greatest living writer in the UK? (4)
  • Who is the greatest living writer of the British Isles? (7)
  • Why ban poetry? (3)
• Category: music
  • A white wench's black eye (1)
  • Abuse of Innocence
  • Arcade Fire - Neon Bible
  • At The Shed (2)
  • Beyond the UK Border (4)
  • Billie Holiday - Fine and Mellow (2)
  • Birtwistle's Shortest Composition? (3)
  • Bjork on Dylan (12)
  • Blonde on Blonde
  • Bring It On (1)
  • Busted flat in Baton Rouge (4)
  • Cheaper than war
  • Dad is Baghdad
  • Dancing Round Europe
  • Did I Shave My Legs for This? (5)
  • Flanders & Swann (1)
  • Flight of the Conchords
  • I Capuleti e i Montecchi (1)
  • I'm Dreaming of a White President
  • Jazz at the Opera House, Oslo
  • Jesus Out to Sea (1)
  • John Clare and a Nightingale
  • Lennon
  • Marilyn Munroe and the Actors Studio (2)
  • Mark Swinton at York Minster (1)
  • Master Juggler (2)
  • Matt Harding Dancing
  • Maverick Sabre - They Found Him A Gun (2)
  • Monty Sunshine 1928-2010 (3)
  • Outer Life; Inner Life (11)
  • Patti Smith - Horses (6)
  • Pavarotti
  • Phil Beer & Miranda Sykes
  • Pie in the Sky (2)
  • Pink - Dear Mr President (8)
  • Plan B (5)
  • Plan B: ill Manors (1)
  • Playing Bingo (2)
  • Postcard of the Hanging (9)
  • Postcards of the Hanging (4)
  • Presque vu LXXVI
  • Presque vu LXXVII
  • Sky Arts Party at Hay (4)
  • Solveig Slettahjell and the Ilmiliekki Quartet
  • Take a Woman Like Your Kind To Find the Man in Me (3)
  • Tango Siempre with Gilad Atzmon
  • That's No Way To Say Goodbye (1)
  • The Blossom Embraces the Bee (4)
  • The Day That The Circus Left Town (3)
  • The Dixie Chicks (9)
  • The Rhythm of Language
  • The Tallahatchie Bridge (3)
  • The Tango (1)
  • Top 10 Conservative Rock Songs (13)
  • Tricksy Spirits and Odd Lads (4)
  • Yo-Yo Ma plays; Lil Buck breakdancing (1)
• Category: politics
  • Five things Feminism has done for me (9)
  • (almost) funny police story (4)
  • 2666 by Roberto Bolaño (2)
  • A Bumper Sticker (1)
  • A Chance to Speak (4)
  • A New Home In London? (1)
  • A Poem by Julius Chingono (6)
  • Acts of Destruction - Mat Coward (3)
  • Advertisers Rule - OK (1)
  • Amazon Prices (2)
  • Amazon Trickery
  • America in denial over gun control (37)
  • America still in denial over gun control (32)
  • American KidLit
  • Amis and Eagleton (2)
  • Amnesty International & Turkey (2)
  • Amulet by Roberto Bolaño (1)
  • An Enemy of the People (5)
  • Anne Enright on China and Censorship
  • Another interview (8)
  • Another Poem by Czeslaw Milosz (2)
  • Arcade Fire - Neon Bible
  • Arthur Miller's Broken Glass (1)
  • Bad Product Awards (3)
  • Baghdad's Book Market
  • Bali - Climate Change (4)
  • Banned Books in the UK (2)
  • Being Average in Germany
  • Bennett to Amis: Shame on Us (2)
  • Beyond the UK Border (4)
  • Bhagdad Burning (4)
  • Bits of Hay
  • Blog Rally (1)
  • Bondage to Bondage - Democracy Bye-bye (5)
  • Bringing Love to the World - American-Style
  • Bullies, Muggers, Sneak Thieves, and Con Men (3)
  • Burma, Writers and Censorship
  • Bush Acting Strangely? - I Don't Believe It (2)
  • Bush and Blair (3)
  • Bush Humour (7)
  • Bush Lied (6)
  • Busted flat in Baton Rouge (4)
  • Butterfly of Hope (2)
  • By Night in Chile - review (1)
  • Can the President Pardon Himself? (10)
  • Cheaper than war
  • China (2)
  • China's High-Tech Police State (1)
  • Christmas Eve (2)
  • Christmas Morning (1)
  • Clock without Hands by Carson McCullers (4)
  • Cluster bombs (6)
  • Coffee in Tehran
  • Conservapedia (7)
  • Copyright and Pirates (2)
  • Creating a Text - Paul Sutherland
  • Cycle Paths - cooled and shaded (1)
  • Czeslaw Milosz and Solidarity (2)
  • Dad is Baghdad
  • Dancing Round Europe
  • Dear Senator Edwards: (1)
  • Desmond Tutu Banned from Minnesota University (3)
  • Divided Kingdom by Rupert Thomson (4)
  • Eduardo Galeano Interview (1)
  • Egyptian blogger sentenced to four years (2)
  • End In Sight In Corruption Murder (2)
  • Evil? I Don't Think So. (2)
  • Five Questions: Bhupinder Singh (4)
  • Five Questions: Newley Purnell (1)
  • Five Questions: pas au-dela (1)
  • Five Years
  • Five Years Ago
  • Football is faster than words
  • Forty Acres
  • Free Hugs Campaign (3)
  • General Pinochet (8)
  • George Carlin - RIP
  • Getting Him Ready To Go (3)
  • Girl Blog from Iraq (1)
  • Go figure . . . (3)
  • god stuff (2)
  • Google - the evil empire? (4)
  • Gore Vidal and the bomb (2)
  • Great Firewall of China (5)
  • Guantanamo (5)
  • Guantanamo: Stop this outrage (3)
  • Hang 'em High (3)
  • Harmful Books? (2)
  • He's gone (4)
  • Himmler - Speaking To His Own
  • Homecoming - GI Zombies
  • How To Sell Your Book (21)
  • I Blog, therefore . . . (1)
  • I Couldn't Bring Myself To Care About (1)
  • I'm Dreaming of a White President
  • Inexclusion (3)
  • Interview with Charles Foran
  • Interview with WikiLeaks founder Julian Assange
  • Isabel Allende (2)
  • It's all right to attack a politician's religion (6)
  • It's Perfectly Normal (6)
  • Jalaladdin Rumi (2)
  • Jeanette Winterson (7)
  • Journalists face imprisonment for article on jokes (2)
  • June - a poem - a massacre - a torch (2)
  • Ken Robinson on Changing Paradigms
  • Kenya (3)
  • Lady Godiva - No thank you
  • Let's Clean Up Fashion (6)
  • Living in Community, Writing Alone I (2)
  • Living in Community, Writing Alone II (6)
  • Loose Change (2)
  • Louise Bryant (1)
  • Macbett by Eugene Ionesco (1)
  • Man of great moral courage (7)
  • Manuel Vázquez Montalbán sometime minimalist cook (3)
  • Margaret Atwood - The Penelopiad
  • Maverick Sabre - They Found Him A Gun (2)
  • McJob (2)
  • McJob (6)
  • Meet the World
  • Melt the Guns (3)
  • Modernism II
  • Modernism III
  • Modernism IV (1)
  • Modernism VII
  • My Revolutions by Hari Kunzru (1)
  • Myanmar (Burma) Today (3)
  • New Shoes (7)
  • No More Heroes (5)
  • No thanks, your honour . . . (1)
  • Nobel Laureate, Wole Soyinka (1)
  • Not Eating with the Bushes (5)
  • Obama Adds Faith to Hope and Change (14)
  • Odds of Dying in a Terrorist Attack (36)
  • Omid Djalili (2)
  • Orhan Pamuk (4)
  • Out-takes XXII (2)
  • Out-takes XXIII (1)
  • Outer Life; Inner Life (11)
  • Paul Wolfowitz and Accountability (9)
  • Persepolis (1)
  • Phil Beer & Miranda Sykes
  • Pie in the Sky (2)
  • Pierrepoint - the last hangman (8)
  • Pink - Dear Mr President (8)
  • Plan B: ill Manors (1)
  • Political Education: Joseph Stalin in Hull (1)
  • Politics and the English Language (3)
  • Politics, Real Life & the Crime Novel (2)
  • Postcard of the Hanging (9)
  • Postcards of the Hanging (4)
  • Poverty - Oct 15th (1)
  • Presque vu IX (1)
  • Presque vu L (1)
  • Presque vu LI
  • Presque vu LIII
  • Presque vu LIIX (2)
  • Presque vu LIV
  • Presque vu LIX
  • Presque vu LV
  • Presque vu LVI
  • Presque vu LX (1)
  • Presque vu LXI
  • Presque vu LXII (1)
  • Presque vu LXIV (2)
  • Presque vu LXIX (1)
  • Presque vu LXV
  • Presque vu LXVI (1)
  • Presque vu LXVII (2)
  • Presque vu LXVIII (1)
  • Presque vu LXX
  • Presque vu LXXI
  • Presque vu LXXII (3)
  • Presque vu LXXIII (3)
  • Presque vu LXXIV (2)
  • Presque vu LXXIX (1)
  • Presque vu LXXV
  • Presque vu LXXVI
  • Presque vu LXXVII
  • Presque vu LXXVIII (1)
  • Presque vu V (5)
  • Presque vu VI (1)
  • Presque vu VII (2)
  • Presque vu VIII (1)
  • Presque vu X (2)
  • Presque vu XI (1)
  • Presque vu XII (3)
  • Presque vu XII
  • Presque vu XIII (1)
  • Presque vu XIII (1)
  • Presque vu XIX
  • Presque vu XVI (2)
  • Presque vu XVIII
  • Presque vu XX
  • Presque vu XXI (4)
  • Presque vu XXII
  • Presque vu XXIX
  • Presque vu XXVI
  • Presque vu XXVII (1)
  • Presque vu XXVIII
  • Presque vu XXXI (2)
  • Presque vu XXXII
  • Presque vu XXXIX
  • Presque vu XXXVI (1)
  • Presque vu XXXVIII
  • Presque vu XXXX (1)
  • Presque vu XXXXI (3)
  • Presque vu XXXXII
  • Presque vu XXXXIII
  • Presque vu XXXXVI
  • Presque vu XXXXVIII (1)
  • Press Freedom Index (4)
  • Prigs (2)
  • Protesters like Moths to a Flame (3)
  • Public Lives/Private Lives (1)
  • Rain All the Way at Hay (3)
  • Re-reading JM Coetzee's Disgrace (10)
  • Read for Peace
  • Reigns of Terror
  • Remembering Howard Zinn
  • Salman Rushdie's Brush with Security (3)
  • Scared to Death (3)
  • Science and Reason (3)
  • Secrecy
  • Secret Lives of Cities
  • Shakespeare's Julius Caesar
  • Should They Be Allowed To Marry? (1)
  • Some Restaurants and Cafés to Avoid (1)
  • Sometimes You Just Have To Pee In The Sink (5)
  • Starbucked (3)
  • Stealing Books (2)
  • Stop Me and Buy One
  • Subversive Vanity Fair (1)
  • Super-Cannes by JG Ballard (3)
  • Take Jane (2)
  • Tango Siempre with Gilad Atzmon
  • Ten Awful Truths . . . (2)
  • That Book Meme . . . (4)
  • The Absolute Voice of Death (1)
  • The Afghan Who Dared Read About Women's Rights (3)
  • The American World (13)
  • The Arts' Debate (1)
  • The Beautification Engine (3)
  • The Blossom Embraces the Bee (4)
  • The Catastrophist by Ronan Bennett - a review (3)
  • The Caucasian Chalk Circle (5)
  • The Clintons (4)
  • The Deputy Prime Minister (3)
  • The Devil's Bargain
  • The Devil's Harvest (3)
  • The Dixie Chicks (9)
  • The EcoDepot (2)
  • The First Brit (1)
  • The First Pole
  • The History Boys - a review (9)
  • The House of Bernarda Alba
  • The IGnobel prize (1)
  • The Lives of others (Das Leben der Anderen) - a film review (6)
  • The Master and Margarita (5)
  • The Monster of Florence (11)
  • The Monster of Florence II (1)
  • The Mutt's Nuts (3)
  • The Plot Against America (2)
  • The Poems in Che's Green Notebook (14)
  • The Police At The Door
  • The post turtle (6)
  • The Prison of National Vanity (1)
  • The Retreat from Common Sense (4)
  • The Road to Heaven (5)
  • The Satanic Verses & Rushdie's Knighthood (1)
  • The Shakespearean Scholar of Sarajevo
  • The South by Colm Tóibín - a review (2)
  • The Story of the Night by Colm Tóibin (3)
  • The stuff of dreams - RSC at Newcastle (2)
  • The Writers' Police (3)
  • This Year's Speech
  • Thursday Thoughts: 2
  • Thursday Thoughts: 3 (3)
  • To Siberia by Per Petterson - Book review (6)
  • Today's nice story with Ribena (2)
  • Tom's News (2)
  • Top 10 Conservative Rock Songs (13)
  • Treating Deportees (2)
  • Tricksy Spirits and Odd Lads (4)
  • UK Complicit in US Torture Programme? (1)
  • Under Western Eyes - a novel (4)
  • Undermining Freedom (1)
  • Uniforms (3)
  • US Elections - change is the key (5)
  • Vonnegut to Willeford (3)
  • War on Terror
  • Warriors & Widows
  • We Don't Want To Go To China (3)
  • What's Left at Hay?
  • Who's Afraid of Virginia Woolf - the text (4)
  • Why ban poetry? (3)
  • Willy Maley, Scottish Poet
  • Winged with Death Virtual Tour - 9 (1)
  • Women - An Owner's Manual (4)
  • Women at Work (4)
  • World's Problems Solved. Apply within. (5)
  • Wrestling Mad - a bad play (4)
  • Writers at the Brussells Tribunal
  • Writing Shooting in the Dark (1)
  • You've Got To Hand It To Them (4)
  • Zimbabwe - Time to Act
• Category: quotations
  • The Da Vinci Code - not the movie (15)
  • "Fame Exhausts Me"
  • 'My bread' - Virginia Woolf (9)
  • (almost) funny police story (4)
  • (L'Étranger) The Outsider by Albert Camus - a review (27)
  • (La Peste) The Plague by Albert Camus - a review (10)
  • 2666 by Roberto Bolaño (2)
  • 9Rules (3)
  • A 'Good News' Story (5)
  • A Book To Change Your Life
  • A Bukowski Poem
  • A Door Opening (2)
  • A girl mad as birds
  • A Half Life Of One by Bill Liversidge - a review (14)
  • A Lost Lady by Willa Cather (1)
  • A New Home In London? (1)
  • A Poem
  • A Poem by Billy Collins (16)