Sunday, March 02, 2008

Harry, Mad Men and Halibut

In The Sunday Times I consider the matter of Prince Harry, I ponder the TV series Mad Men and I explain the importance of halibut in physics. Above is some stained glass from Cawston Church. It is a picture of a fifteenth century hack working on one of the early stringed laptops.
Posted by Bryan Appleyard at 8:03 am

6 comments:

  1. Ian russellMarch 02, 2008 12:16 pm

    Harry don't like England much - they really should get rid of them. And I should really get rid of my TV. I have still to consider halibut.

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  2. AnonymousMarch 02, 2008 1:09 pm

    Bryan, you must remember seeing Shirley Abercare playing the zither on TV long ago. I knew, as a boy, that she played like an angel.

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  3. AnonymousMarch 03, 2008 1:08 am

    1960 -- 'twas a very good year; I was born in it. And "Mad Men" does sound a lot like the novel "And Then We Came to the End," by Joshua Ferris; different era, same obsession with capturing consumers, making them want a particular object (actually, even "Fabian, the Story of a Moralist," written by Erich Kaestner 1931 has this as a theme). The question is, Why is advertising is on our minds again -- instead of under them, where it's supposed to be?

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  4. AnonymousMarch 03, 2008 4:37 pm

    Harry seems to have undergone a Henry V style transformation from Prince Hal, the roaring boy under the care of an as yet unknown Falstaff (Bryan, perhaps) to the serious man of war, leading us into the lands of Johnny Foreigner to die in the mud.

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  5. Johnny NorfolkNovember 19, 2008 8:44 am

    I cannot find any information on Shirley Abercare on the web. Can anyone help ?

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  6. UnknownJanuary 03, 2009 11:49 am

    found Shirely Abicair on i-tunes singing little boy fishing when searching have you been using the correct spelling?

    Les

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