I love Chris's Invincible Super-Blog for setting the lyrics of Pulp's Common People to visuals from Archie Comics, it's totally brilliant. My favorite version of this song is actually William Shatner's cover, from his 2004 album Has Been, and I say that a) completely without irony and b) having heard Jarvis Cocker himself sing it last year. Here, have a listen:
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VS Naipaul: The Long Arrival, by Robert McCrum. Good long two part piece on the man widely considered to be both the greatest writer in the English language and a total jerk; it makes me feel even guiltier than usual for not having gotten around to reading any of his work yet. Really though I am posting this mainly to say that you kind of really have to love a country in which a writer can just use the word "valetudinarian" in a newspaper and not have their editor change it or make them explain it, just letting it sit in context. Vive la reine!
