Popular Posts

  • Bauman, plagiarism, blah, blah
    Another week, another plagiarism scandal. THE is reporting that one of Britain's favourite blah blah sociologists Zygmunt Bauman has...
  • The Changeling
    Robin Jenkins' The Changeling is one of the best novels I've read for a long time. To my shame I'd never heard of Robin Jenkin...
  • Fly through 17th Century London
    This is really cool. Well worth a look.
  • The Best Dennis Skinner quotes
    This , from Haze , is a bit of fun, though perhaps a bit parochial. Do listen to Tony Blair's impression of the Beast of Blosover: it...
  • RIP Rob Farr
    Sad to learn of the death of my old LSE colleague Rob Farr. Rob was Professor of Social Psychology and one of the people who made me feel w...
  • Sociology and Elites
    My contribution  to the comments on Graham Scambler's interesting piece in Discover Society finally made it past the moderator. You ca...
  • The Social Structure of Brexit 2
     I'm surprised by how much interest (judged by page views) there has been in my last post. Especially since I didn't put much effor...
  • On metaphors - cultural and social capital again
    Recently, as you no doubt know,  I've been beating up on the use of the term "capital" in phrases like "cultural capital...
  • Publisher's puff
    I wonder how often academic writers are  embarrassed by the puff that publishers more or less force them to have on the back of their books...
  • Blah blah sociology
    Taking a look at the videos on the British Sociological Associations web site of  its last conference I found one nice thing - richly deser...

Caveat Emptor

The opinions expressed on this page are mine alone. Any similarities to the views of my employer are completely coincidental.

Friday, 29 July 2016

Tenderly

It's Friday and time for more Chet the musician 'bittersweet' was coined for. Looking forward to seeing the biopic Born to be Blue  that was released in the UK earlier this week. Chet is another example of the rule that a great artist is allowed to be an arschloch. The same rule does not apply to academics. Tenderly.
Posted by Colin at 02:18

No comments:

Post a Comment

Subscribe to: Post Comments (Atom)