Tag: Lindsey Dawson

Oh yes, tobacco fans, you can feel free to light up anywhere in China. And before you say 'eeeuw', imagine this. It's a steamy evening in Shanghai on the famous esplanade knows as the Bund.

I'm writing a new novel set around 1880 and the more I read letters from that era that end in flourishing signatures, preceded by phrases like "yours very truly", the harder it is to wrench myself back into today.

Courtesy of Lindsey Dawson. Oh, such care people are taking not to offend. So fragile have ...

Lindsey contemplates what exactly a trillion is.

The words 'red' and 'cake' don't really go together in my mind, so I was intrigued to see a story about some big dinner attended by political star Sarah Palin where the menu largely consisted of 'thick slices of roast pork and red velvet cake'.

In a TIME magazine list of the top 10 graphic novels for last year, I found this picture of the number three book on the list, by Grant Morrison and Frank Quitely. It's Superman, but not as we know him.

Are we witnessing the decline and fall of our civilization? Sometimes, when I look at TV, I think so.

It seems like such a short time ago that we were all hyped up over the end of the 90s. The new millennium was coming! A brave new age!

There's an election going on. But where's the noise, where's the humour?

I had a grim week this summer. I stopped drinking coffee.