Will has written about his pipe collection in his study for Granta.
I’ve had my fill of cyber life: let’s give humans a go
I had a letter this week from the fraud department of a major building society, informing me that someone had tried to open an account in my name, and asking me to call them to confirm itwasn’t me. My immediate reaction was to suspect fraud perpetrated by crooks pretending to be the building society; so before I phoned, I Google-mapped their office address.
Read the whole of Will’s Evening Standard column here.
The Games were just a boom-time boondoggle
At least disgraced tycoon David Ross has had the decency to resign from his position as the Mayor’s representative on the Olympic Organising Committee. Mind you, his parting words are open to interpretation: “I do not wish to distract others from the important work still to do in making 2012 the success I know it will be.” Presumably the “important work” that Lord Coe and Tessa Jowell have still to do is shoring up the funding mess they’ve created because – just like Ross – their favourite sport of all was casino capitalism.
To read the rest of Will’s latest Standard column, go here.
A Visit from Mrs Wells
Walk this way
For a chance to go on a walk in London with Will, visit the Evening Standard’s auction page and bid on lot 39 in their Christmas Charity Auction. You have until December 15 to make a bid.
Question Time
Will is going to be a panellist on Question Time next week, December 11. The panel will also include Schools Minister Jim Knight, Conservative MP Nadine Dorries, Liberal Democrat MP Lembit Opik, and Esther Rantzen.
Obama’s new regime – it’s too old school for my taste
There’s a strange sense of political limbo here in the States at the moment: this is the interregnum, with one American emperor dead but yet to be interred, while his successor is still to be crowned. Barack Obama may not have assumed the purple but he’s assembling his praetorian guard around him, and it’s these appointments that are beginning to make the liberals who voted him into office uneasy about what the future may hold: will the new ruler turn his slogan “Change” into a reality, or is the ancien régime about to reassert itself?
To read the rest of will’s latest Standard article, go here.
Bridget Riley
The Independent has published an extract of a piece that Will has written for Art World magazine.
Nick Cave and the Bad Seeds: More News From Nowhere
Spotted — an oddly geeky-looking Will, propping up the bar in Cave’s video filling in a crossword, though, according to this account, he was filling it in using his own answers: “Later, while I was aimlessly wandering around waiting for the lighting to be set-up or some such technical detail I took a look at Self’s crossword. He had filled it all in but with words that bore no relation to the clues. These were all proper words. In fact they were proper Selfian, or is it Self-ish words like: perfidy, carillon, phylum and quincunx. And they all slotted into the crossword grid perfectly. It was a revelation to me. Nobody I have now asked has ever seen a crossword done like this before.”
The most authentic places on earth
Will was part of a panel that chose the “50 most authentic places on earth”. Here are two of his choices:
Los Angeles, USA:
“What can be more mondial and timely than this high-rise outgrowth of the great sprawl: the historic core of LA, the beginning of the Miracle Mile of Wilshire Boulevard, and the location of Echo Park, where Chinatown was filmed? Downtown LA is the bulwark between the Hispanic city of East LA and the Anglo city to the west. Anyone going to LA for empty-headed perma-tan Valley Girls need, emphatically, look elsewhere.”
Holderness Coast, Yorkshire, England:
“While the coast has resorts – Bridlington, Withernsea – and caravan parks aplenty, its mysterious and crumbly aspect means that it isn’t a tourist destination per se.”
To read the rest of the article, go here.
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