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Tinker Tailor Soldier Spy has a lot going for it. For one, the plot already carries enough weight to pique the interest of the most plebeian of us all- a spy story that centers on Smiley called out of retirement to hunt down a mole within MI6, lovingly referred to by Le Carre as “The Circus”; […]
December 28, 2011
Really weird colloquialisms abound down under- a week into our first Melbourne winter and we were scrambling around K-mart for a comforter except that they don’t call it a comforter or quilt here, it’s a freaking “dooner” and while I can’t be bothered by the entomology surrounding the word; my interest was piqued when out […]
December 27, 2011
It’s a departure from my usual fashion features but since I have this bike fetish, I tend to indulge everything from Brooks and from this day forth- anything from the fertile imagination of Jérôme Coste. This was a man who got his kicks from motor racing and activities of a “head-cracking” nature, these passions and quite […]
December 23, 2011
Most of you should probably be done with Christmas shopping but if you’ve been remiss like I have, Mr Porter actually has some really great last minute gifts (and even if it doesn’t arrive on time, a late gift is better than no gift at all). This year, I got the wife something we could […]
December 23, 2011
Convoluted header I know but it’s Christmas eve and I’m in “Holy shit I’ve to spend 2 days with my mother” mode (Thank God she’s working on boxing day). I happen to have given this black tie thing a lot of thought because for the Christmas eve dinner, I am really not intending on getting […]
December 22, 2011
The Argument Against Income Inequality Imagine four families sharing a large, jointly owned backyard area. The families would like to install a swing set, slide, etc. for their children to share. The set costs $1,200, and they need to figure out how to pay for it. One of the households is fairly well off and […]
December 21, 2011
I haven’t written in a while and it’s only because year end holiday planning and the clearing of 2011 work for new 2012 projects tends to make quick work of available free time. That said, inspiration interruptus, objects of beauty (women and well designed luxury goods) tend to pull me out of my stupor- today, […]
December 21, 2011
How could James Franco possibly be simultaneously reading for a Yale Ph.D and filming a multimillion-dollar motion picture? How could he possibly have time to write anything when he’s also teaching a class at NYU and starring so many films? I’ve wondered the same thing myself. But on that trip to Detroit, I learned a […]
December 11, 2011
In medieval times, foot coverings were mostly rags and strips of leather, sometimes abetted by a thick wooden overshoe, the patten, which raised the wearer above the mud and muck. With so much else to face — plague, famine, mud — people back then weren’t in the best position to pay attention to their shoes. […]
December 9, 2011
Readers of “Tinker Tailor Soldier Spy” first encounter George Smiley, the puzzled problem-solver of the novel’s maze, as he hastens along a rainy London street. It is by no means his first appearance in the pages of le Carré. He was in “Call for the Dead,” and then in “A Murder of Quality” (1962), in […]
The Monsieur 
December 28, 2011
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