The 'This
week I am mostly reading' section is regularly updated so that
won't be mentioned here
Here's one I missed. I've
added an entry for Mantovani.
Are there any more missing in action? (29 Jun 2008)
Added a couple more entries
prompted from 'Working man's cafe', in particular what I think
is a highly educational take on 'The Old
Trad Band'. (30 December, 2007)
I've added entries for
the people appearing in Ray Davies's new album, 'Working man's
cafe', including God and Satan;
and there's a new book listed on Andre Makine's page, out in the
UK next year. (28 October 2007)
After nearly a year there's
another Kinks
in Literature sighting to report (9 Oct 2007)
Major event, in this context
at least. There's a new page giving links to the other
Dave and David Quayles out there in cyberspace (25 August
2007)
I've finally given Lucille Ball ('I
love Lucy') the entry she deserves. (22 Feb, 2007)
I've added another deep
and meaningful 'Glimpse'
and rejigged that section, adding a second page and moving some
items there (9 December 2006)
Added a link
to the splendid 'Over three hundred proofs of God's existence',
as good a gateway as any to internet atheism. (October 23 2006)
Added an spurious entry
for 'Plastic Man'
in the main characters in song index. Nonsense of course. (22
October 2006)
Added a link
for Victoria's Way, the sculpture and philosophy park in County
Wicklow, Eire, that I rave about in the blog. Took a couple of
old links out. (3 September 2006)
Couple of new
glimpses added, one homely and one definitely a bit scary.
(6 August 2006)
I've added an entry in
the main index for Princess
Anne (the subject of the song 'Heart of gold') and a few thoughts
on the Monarchy and Andrei
Makine has a new book published, which will be discussed in
the blog (June 6 2006)
I've got rid of the genealogy
pages & the family trees because they needed updating and
seeing as I'd received less than one email a year because of them
I couldn't be bothered. I've added another 'Kinks in literature'
courtesy of Joel Swift and I couldn't resist putting something
from 'Green wing' in there too, even though it's 'only' television
(use the Patterson link below). There are scans of three amusing
pages from the book titled 'The
socialist countess' that I write about in the blog. (21 April
2006)
A new 'Kinks in literature'
entry, the first for five months, from the bestselling James
Patterson, no less (20 March 2006)
Expanded Rosie
Rooke and Alan
Sillitoe and Arthur Seaton entries in the aftermath of the
release of Ray's 'Other people's lives' and the first Arctic Monkeys
album. (28 Feb 2006)
Added an astute quote from
David Winner's neatly titled book about British football - 'Those
feet' - to the Noel
Coward entry because I thought it was worth it. (5 Feb 2006)
Added a funny piece (an
old chesnut, I readily admit, but it was new to me last night)
about the physics
of Father Christmas's Christmas journey after hearing it recited
by the Albion Christmas Band. (13 Dec 2005)
Seems I missed someone
in a Kinks song, no less than Steve
Austin in 'Father Christmas'. So there's a brand new entry
there and while I was at it I've tarted up Saint Nick himself
in the guises in which he's cited in that seasonal ditty and realised
I'd not actually written anything about Lucille Ball. (11
Dec 2005)
Another Kinks
in literature thanks to Duncan Smith - it's at the bottom
of the page (1 Nov 2005)
A major development with
a whole new page for the outstanding Russian novelist Andrei
Makine, because he's really good and not enough people read
him and no-one else has done it (30 Oct 2005)
An entry for Ned
Sherrin, possibly the 'prominent queen' in the lyrics of 'Top
of the pops' (21 Oct 2005)
An entry for Frank Smyth,
one of the inspiration for the song 'Storyteller'
and an expanded entry for John Stephen on the same page (4 Oct
2005)
A new Ray Davies song,
a brand new entry for ... Abba
(who?) (2 Oct 2005)
Link to a decent, well situated and reasonably
priced place to stay in the Lakes (as in UK, Cumbrian) (9 Jul
2005)
A news item about the unveiling
of a lifesize statue of him in Brighton prompted me to give Max Miller more
than just a token entry (9 May 2005)
New link to a
nice B'n'B at the seaside in Penarth.
There's a couple of new
Glimpses at the bottom
of the page (9 Feb 2005)
The Superman
entry now actually says something (31 Jan 2005)
Much expanded entries for
Good Old Mother
Riley and Christine Keeler along with some tinkering with
a few others like the Angry Young Men and Mary Quant(16 Sep) and
Jackie Gleason (18 Sep) and Mrs Mopp and Lola (19 Sep 2004). I've
been a bit busy.
A new 'Kinks
in literature' after a 10 month gap and there'll be another
one shortly
(21& 30 Aug 2004 and 22 Sep)
I've split the 'This week
...' media consumption log into two. It was getting too big so
now you've got this year and the rest - an Archive
no less (20 Jul 2004)
Developments in both lines
of the Family Tree (6 Jul 2004)
The beginnings of an entry
and a link to a sad tale therein for Mary Tyler Moore (24 May
2004)
Added a link
to John Baker's website because he was good enough to acknowledge
a mention of his books at this site here
(fame!) and because it's a good site (2 May 2004)
Enhanced entries for Jean-Paul
Sartre & Mickey Rooney; new entry for Zsa-Zsa Goabor (21 Feb
2004)
I've compiled all my Kinks
Preservation Society posts (and a couple from other hands) concerning
The Kinks in literature
(2 February 2004)
Hey, Rock'n'roll! I've
worked up the entries for Danny & the Juniors, Dion &
the Belmonts, Johnny & the Hurricanes (27 January 2004)
I've tarted up the entry
for Jack Spot (London song) and seem to be gearing up for a bit
more activity on the index. So the very next day, there's an entry
now for everyone mentioned in the song 'A well bred Englishman'
from Ray's musical '80 days' (3&4 January 2004)
I've made a few amendments
to some of those mentioned in the Village Green Preservation Society
songs after reading Andy
Miller's book, which I recommend to even hardened Kinkophiles
(November 27 2003)
Another glimpse
with a link to a photo (13 November 2003)
An old
glimpse is remembered - Mantovani and a Welsh hillside. And
contrary to what it says above, here are brief thoughts on Ian MacDonald
I've added in their chronological place (15 September 2003)
Mr Rogers, Shirley Jones
and Gordon McRae have been beefed up a bit - even if I am a vegetarian
(25 July 2003)
I've added a few characters
from the Jane Street songs (Otis, Al Jackson, Messers Smith, Brown
& Jones (15 July 2003)
I thought I'd heard two
versions of the song 'Stand up'. One that says 'Jack the Lad'
has become Oscar Wilde, the other merely that he has become Fancy
Dan - something of a dimunition methinks/ methought. So there's
an entry for Fancy
Dan (29 Apr 2003). Which is just as well since Carriebou reports
that Ray sings both at different stages in the song. Clothe ears
here it would appear. But it's a relief. (9 Jun 2003)
Not a lot so far except
this "New
stuff" page (29 Mar 2003)
