May 18, 2005
Chauvinists. Stubborn nannied humourless pretentious offhand frivolous agitated talkative shallow cold distant vain impolite preaching arrogant flesh-loving righteous self-obsessed not-very-with-it disobedient immoral disorganised neo-colonialist dirty egocentric bons vivants snobs.
...mais nous ne sommes pas gros!
Reported epithets from the (London) Telegraph courtesy the Anchoress
April 14, 2005
...of the maligned re-enactors, deliver us.
The BBC reports a personnel search for cuddly Vikings who have a good sense of humour and like to play, to staff a Norwegian Historical Centre and disabuse visitors of wild, murderous looter Viking stereotypes.
Tell it to Alexander of Scotland.
Via the intermittently active (as though we had room to talk!) Regions of Mind. Geitner Simmons has a fine touch with a subject and sense of place, for instance, encounter with pristine grassland, hard wind, and figures in a landscape. Don't know, quite, how he does it, though the visuals add a lot.
