by Dylan Kissane | Oct 30, 2017 | Not Running
A new candidate has thrown their hat in the ring for the 2018 Russian presidential election: On Monday, mother-of-two Ekaterina Gordon, 37, who has worked as a TV and radio talk show host, said she was putting herself forward as an independent presidential...
by Dylan Kissane | Oct 29, 2017 | Not Running
So I like to think I know a bit about the Cold War but as I re-watched The Third Man (hence the image above…) the other night a question occurred to me. Why did Germany devolve into East and West – and Berlin into East and West Berlin – while the...
by Dylan Kissane | Oct 28, 2017 | Not Running
One of the great things about Netflix is that you can discover a movie or TV series that you somehow missed out on when it first aired, and then binge the whole thing to catch up with the rest of the world in a weekend or so. The last week or so I have been streaming...
by Dylan Kissane | Oct 27, 2017 | Not Running
I’ve managed to get through a couple of new books – well, new to me, anyway, in the majority of cases – in the last month or so and I’ve been enjoying learning a little bit more about the world doing so. There’s definitely a coupe of...
by Dylan Kissane | Oct 24, 2017 | Not Running
On Saturday afternoon I got the first updates from an ultra race in the US: Big’s Backyard Ultra. It’s a timed race and it was expected to go on for at least a day so I didn’t pay too much attention to the early updates as the field thinned down from...
by Dylan Kissane | Oct 20, 2017 | Not Running
One of the best things about the Hugh Hewitt Show on Friday’s is the appearance of Tarzana Joe, the resident poet of the show. I’ve been listening to him for years now and his takes on the news of the week is always amusing and his vocabulary is...
