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  • Burn Her!

    Why it's dangerous to be a witch in a recession.
    By: Tim Harford

    Why did people murder suspected witches in Renaissance Europe? And why do they still do so today in sub-Saharan Africa? As someone whose main source of information about witch trials is Monty Python and the Holy Grail, I was fascinated to learn that witch-burning has its own grim economics.

    Clearly, some of the fervor for murdering...


  • Photo Coverage: Clay Aiken Returns to 'Monty Python's Spamalot'

    By: Pablo Pimienta

    Clay Aiken returned to the scene of his triumphant Broadway debut Friday September 19th as he reprised the role of 'Sir Robin' in the Tony Award-winning Best Musical, Monty Python's Spamalot. Clay's debut on Broadway earlier this year was met with wild enthusiasm from both his legion of fans and the New York press. He'll be performing the...


  • Deadly Funny

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    The Killer Joke

    by: Kim "Howard" Johnson

    It was one of the classic sketches from the first episode to air of Monty Python’s Flying Circus. It’s referred to in various ways, including “The Funniest Joke in the World,” “Killer Joke,” “Joke Warfare,” and “The Deadliest Joke in the World.”

    [In the early days,...

  • FAWLTY GOODS

    SNN18BB04F-280_587834a.jpg FAWLTY Towers legend John Cleese is returning to British TV — for the first time in seven years.
    By: COLIN ROBERTSON

    The ex-Monty Python star will host a new show examining latest gadgets — just like his James Bond alter ego Q.

    Batteries Not Included will road-test strange inventions from across the world.

    The bonkers devices include chin gyms, baby dusters and giant slippers.

    The lanky star, 69, will be joined by other celebs in the...


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  • Sarah Palin and her Monty Python email policy

    By: Davey Winder

    Cue marching band music and a big cartoon foot. US Vice-Presidential candidate Sarah Palin, hackers have revealed, has used a Yahoo! free webmail account to talk government business with aides. Arguments over whether this was pure stupidity or a clever attempt to avoid those emails becoming public record rage. One thing is for sure, the...


   

Idle Reading

In these troubled times when even another Palin has been trotted out on to the world stage for a cheap laugh I retreat into Dickens. He is the only one who is truly divine about hypocrisy. Cringing in despair after watching McCain debating himself, I destroyed my television set, downloaded all of Dickens on to my Sony Reader and have retreated into a dark room with David Copperfield – no, not the annoying magician.

I have also read all of Michael Chabon.

I shall stay indoors until the election is over.

Actually I have been reading Michael Chabon backwards. No I don’t mean that in the Hebrew sense, but his works in reverse order. It’s interesting to see his development from the early exquisite short story writing to handling larger themes and longer books.

I recommend everything.

Kavalier & Clay Michael Chabon

The Wonder Boys Michael Chabon

A Model World Michael Chabon

Werewolves in their Youth Michael Chabon

The Final Solution Michael Chabon

The Mysteries of Pittsburgh Michael Chabon

And don’t miss this fabulous new short novel….

Indignation Philip Roth

Also recommended,

The Monster of Florence Douglas Preston

Fascinating true life mystery of an American exile caught up in the sinister events of a serial killer who preys on young lovers in the Tuscan hills

Samuel Pepys The Unequalled Self Claire Tomalin

A magnificent biography of the great diarist – he kept his diary only for a few (crucial) years – the Plague and the Great Fire. Claire Tomalin’s biography is also unequalled.

And if anyone is keeping track...

Eric has also read recently:

Maps and Legends by Michael Chabon

The Yiddish Policeman’s Union by Michael Chabon

A Commonwealth of Thieves by Thomas Kenneally

American Eve by Paula Uruburu

Intelligence in War by John Keegan

The Concrete Blonde by Michael Connelly

Fatherland by Robert Harris

Paradise Lost by John Milton

The Sonnets of Shakespeare.

Blood Money by Thomas Perry

The Scramble for Africa by Thomas Pakenham

Murder in Amsterdam by Ian Buruma about modern Holland and Muslimism after the murder of Theo Van Gogh

Dance for the Dead by Thomas Perry - a Jane Whitefield novel

And he is re-reading The Loved One by Evelyn Waugh - his favorite 20th Century author and God is Not Great by Christopher Hitchens, one of his favourite books of last year.

as well as...

Netherland by Joseph O'Neill. A beautifully written novel

The God Delusion by Richard Dawkins

The Discovery of France by Graham Robb

Monty Python & Philosophy (Nudge Nudge Thing Think) edited by Gary L. Hardcastle & George A. Reisch

click here to read the rest of Eric's 2008 library


Pet Personals

This just in From The Ministry of Silly Walks

Think you have what it takes to get a government grant for your 'silly walk'? Practice, practice, practice...

Click here to hone your silly walk



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Now, off you go.



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  • Win a "Spamalot" weekend in Toronto

    Are you a Monty Python fanatic? CJAD wants to give you the chance to head to Toronto and catch Spamalot, the funniest show on earth and 2005 Tony Award Winner for Best Musical - lovingly ripped off from the film classic Monty Python and the Holy Grail. You'll travel on Via Rail Canada and stay at the Suites at 1 King West, October 3rd-5th....


  • 'She's like a moose going after a cabbage'

    By: Chris Ayres in Wasilla

    Here in Wasilla, the small Alaskan town where until six years ago Sarah Palin was mayor, her speech officially to accept the Republican Party's Vice Presidential nomination was greeted with tears and disbelief.

    Crowded into Tailgaters Sports Bar & Grill on Parks Highway, her friends and most ardent of supporters, many of them...


  • Quotable Hollywood: Our favorite lines ... tell us yours

    Some movies live on, their agreed-upon greatness chiseled in stone, or at least listed by the American Film Institute. Others, quality be damned, are more like folk art; their greatness is part of our oral tradition.

    In 2005, the AFI produced a lineup of cinema's 100 best quotes, one that rounded up the "usual suspects,"...


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  • What did the Romans give us? AIDS

    By: News:lite

    The Monty Python team asked 'what have the Roman's ever given us?' now in addition to roads, sanitation and education, scientists have added a susceptibility to HIV.

    It has been found that people living in lands conquered by the thousand-year empire are more susceptible to HIV.

    Experts in France think this is because the Romans...


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  • Sarah Palin: Satire, spoof and fakery

    By: Jenny Percival

    Sarah Palin has been a gift to political satirists on the web. The moose-hunting, high-achieving mother of five is a Republican caricature who has fired the imaginations of comedians, bloggers and political commentators.

    A spoof blog Welcome to the Palindrome describes her elation at the end of her speech. "I am so pumped up right now...


  • Picking Palin Proves McCain Is No Dead Parrot

    By: Ian Thorpe

    Many people are still wondering why American Presidential Candidate John McCain picked Palin as his running mate and potential Vice President and will be shocked as I was to find the Palin in question is not Monty Python star Michael Palin. But the selection might not be as crazy as it seems and the latest poll findings indicate McCain is no...


  • Sarah Palin picked as USA president's running mate because of family connections

    By: Steddyeddy

    Presidential hopeful John McCain has picked Sarah Palin because of her British family connections.

    In a statement issued today, the office of John McCain said:

    "We felt Sarah Palin's relationship with a brother who has direct access to an important British Ministry was most relevant in terms of the USA Presidency.


  • How To Dress 'Spamalot'

    By: Sally Friedman, For The Bulletin

    You've probably heard by now that the musical Spamalot! is hilarious, frenzied and fun. You may know that it's derived from the zany Monty Python school of mayhem, and is a spoof of the old King Arthur legend, and also of Broadway musicals and their excesses.

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    But you may not have heard about what goes on behind the...


  • Tix for Broadway Shows Will Soon Be Available on New York-Bound Flights

    By: Andrew Gans

    In-Flight Box Office is the name of a new service that will allow passengers on New York-bound flights to purchase tickets to several Broadway shows.

    Variety reports that the Canadian company GuestLogix has teamed with Shubert Ticketing for the new program that will enable flight attendants to sell tickets to several Broadway shows....