by Ben Carmichael | Oct 27, 2010 | Uncategorized
Restaurant: Jamal’s 107-108 Walton Street Telephone: 01865 554905 http://www.jamals.co.uk In leaving the restaurant last night, I squeezed past a pirate and a sea wench, danced with a fairy and held my friend steady as he lost his dinner to the trash bin on the...
by Ben Carmichael | Oct 27, 2010 | Uncategorized
The first line of the first book written by Françoise Rabelais — writer, doctor, teller of bawdy jokes — addresses those most “Most Noble and Illustrious Drinkers,” before taking up Plato’s The Banquet, Socrates and Silenus, the...
by Ben Carmichael | Oct 23, 2010 | Uncategorized
With Senator Barack Obama set to announce his VP nomination by Friday, the speculative field of possible names has been whittled – if only by the press – to a select three: Senator Joseph Biden of Delaware, Senator Evan Bayh of Indiana, and Governor Tim...
