Author Archives: Charles Lambert

New docs, old tricks

Medical faculties in Italy held their admission exams today, to decide the fortunate few thousand who’ll be working in the country’s hospitals and surgeries five, ten, fifteen years from now, depending on how long it takes them to butter their … Continue reading

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Family day

Cute, right? She’s Bristol, daughter of vice-presidential candidate Sarah Palin, and recently outed as seven months pregnant, which means the birth will coincide neatly with the election. He’s the prospective father. He’s called Levi Johnston, he’s also 17, and, according … Continue reading

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Ride the Word III

I’ll be reading something from my new collection of stories, The Scent of Cinnamon, at an event called Ride the Word III in London later this month, along with four other fine Salt writers. I’d love to see you there. … Continue reading

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Orangina? Are they sure?

http://www.youtube.com/v/kHA9Ig7HOGA&hl=en&fs=1What were the people who made this on? And when will they be handling the Tizer contract? I’m not sure that this makes me thirsty, but there are certainly moments when it makes me laugh. Which can’t be bad. And … Continue reading

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Yuri Buenaventura: Ne me quitte pas

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Radio

I’ve just discovered that Philip K. Dick once shared a house with Jack Spicer and Robert Duncan. The same source, an LRB article by Stephen Burt about Dick (3 July 2008), tells me that the SF author believed that radios … Continue reading

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Up Malcolm

Peter Bradshaw’s blog from Venice today, in which he talks of the Tinto Brass-Guccione version of Caligula – a truly awful film – prompted me to go and find some stills from it. I’m not sure if this is actually … Continue reading

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One large bus for Boris

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One small dive for man

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Sexual union with Tiger

The Indian artist Maqbool Fida Husain has not been invited to India’s first art fair on the grounds that his work depicts a series of Hindu deities without their clothes on. The lady in the work above is the goddess … Continue reading

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