Roger Giner-Sorolla

Especially having read the novels

Maybe as simple as "Like Mturk, but for free!"

Kinda baller

I loved the undercurrent of grim despair that filming on the English seaside in winter lent to "holiday planet Niamos"

After 15 years banging our heads against "how to pre-specify a theoretical effect size from the thing being studied", advancing the complementary program of "how to pre-specify a theoretical effect size from the methods being used" (with some placeholder value coming from the effect in question)

Part of racism means you feel free to toss around the epithet as an all-purpose downgrade. See also "Welsh rabbit" (rarebit), "French leave", "Dutch courage" and so on.

Having engaged with the "simple, comprehensive" e-visa process that was supposed to take effect in January ... be careful what you wish for

I think Moorcock started it when the terrible old gods of Granbretan included "Aral Vilsn" and "Chirshil"

It's oddly like being a therapy client in a film. There's a destructive blockage that can only be healed by the right Eureka moment or Proustian madeleine, followed by a wild outpouring of joyous activity. I include Ebenezer Scrooge in this category.

"Coming to join us at salah in the break room, buddy?"

Tapping the "potential inheritors" readership

Wow. I was trying and failing to find out stats on TV repeats because I was pretty sure I saw some old episodes being run on the BBC in the early 80's.

The Black and White Minstrel Show - Wikipedia

This is a country with a popular TV programme that was literally a minstrel show running for most of the 70's so yeah

en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Bla...

3rd to 1st person makes all the difference, as Nabokov knew

This is why we need a pan-European college of heralds

is a skilful player (of Settlers of Catan). A weak player is someone who has the desire to trade sheep around, and perhaps does, but does not yet possess the ore needed to build a city. Have fun, colleagues, but play well.

We're a long way on from "the cat walked across my keyboard"

Why does this cursed site not have a Jonathan Haidt gif?

Oh, I've also been baffled on the continent

Pretty Baby

Camille Paglia at least would never have filed a misconduct complaint whilst herself committing misconduct

Every escape room should have a European shower puzzle

I think they're perfectly matched as genre stars of a certain age with hidden dramatic depths

Very much like Trump's 50-day, um, 20 day ultimatum to Putin

H-index, eh?

It sounds like one of those phrases that kids trick each other into saying five times fast and it comes out as something rude

28; great-grandfather Agustí Salomó Sorolla would approve

Also, the antisemitic cry "Hep Hep" was probably not standing for "Hierosolyma Est Perdita"

en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hep-Hep...

Concealing the effects of debauched living on my physiognomy via sorcerous transference? Nah, that's the other fella