This week I have been

Reading

The 2011 Tour de France race guide.

Watching

An Idiot Abroad

Listening to

The xx

Discovering

(Or rediscovering) Hamlet - Nicki Greenberg's beautiful new version, thanks to the fabulous Snarkattack, who invited me along to see Nicki talk about the creative process behind the book.

Eating

  • An enormous serve of bangers'n'mash and a nourishing pint of Kilkenny at the Town Hall one dismal Tuesday evening.
  • A "Chachi" - chianina meatball sandwich - another brioche donut and some amazing chocolate tart at Beatrix, which Essjay has reviewed.
  • A lazy Sunday lunch at The Crimean. The Polish hunter's stew (bigos) was just the thing to revive me after a chilly bike ride.
  • Generous piles of fried food with oodles of chillies and sichuan peppercorns at Sichuan House
  • Succulent suckling pig at Liberteene.
  • An array of bright, zesty flavours at Chin Chin, where the only problem was having to choose only some of the items from what looks to be a menu that is all hits, no filler.

Links

I wish I’d just copied the whole post…

By injera, on April 3rd, 2009%

The Miss Universe Organisation has removed Dayana Mendoza’s rhapsody about Guantanamo Bay.  Fortunately, Dayana has her necklace to remember her “wonderful time” there. The rest of us only have incomplete quotes and dead links. Oh, and this:

On Friday, we left for Jacksonville for one night because the next day we were going to Guantanamo, Cuba!!!! Wow, my job is amazing!!!! I love it, I let you guys know next week how Guantanamo was …. Muah!

Posted by Dayana

Edit: fortunately the BBC grabbed a lot more from the initial blog than I did and it’s here.

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ZOMG! So Gitmo’s, like, sooooooo beautiful!

By injera, on March 31st, 2009%

Misses USA and Universe 2008 (Crystle Stewart and Dayana Mendoza, respectively) have returned from a trip to Guantanamo Bay.  Were they there to draw further attention to the plight of detainees?  No, according to the NY Times, they were there to “to visit troops as part of a U.S.O./Armed Forces Entertainment tour”.

Dayana reports that they had “a wonderful time” and “a loooot of fun!”.  In fact, it was “soooo beautiful”  and such “an incredible experience” that Dayana “bought a necklace … that will remind me off Guantanamo Bay :) ”.

I didn’t want to leave, it was such a relaxing place, so calm and beautiful.

They didn’t completely ignore the detainees:

We visited the Detainees camps and we saw the jails, where they shower, how the recreate themselves with movies, classes of art, books. It was very interesting.

Dayana doesn’t say whether they remain at Gitmo because they heart it so much they don’t want to leave…

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