Read about the contributors to this website
Decca Clarke's work:
Article on Doris Lessing(on the Amazon website)
Language
Irony
The Media
Anton Buxley's work:
Shut Up I
Big Read
Review of Cold Mountain
Review of A Royal Duty
DeeAnn Q.Feldspar's work:
The One-Stop Shop for All Your Self-Help Needs.
Latest from us all at the Collection.
Glenda Slagg meets Decca Clark!!!???
People we don't like: People we like:
Lord Hutton Hercule Poirot
Mel Gibson Sherlock Holmes
Ralph Nader Matt Stone
Fay Weldon
(you will note that we like less people than we dislike. This is highly symbolic of stuff. And junk)
NEW! NEW! err... did I say NEW?
Anton Buxley starts a film-review column that will hopefully become regular. The first review is of Cold Mountain, the latest work by that renowned artiste, Vivien Leigh.
Anton also ventures a little light "literary" criticism, with this review of Paul Burrell's A Royal Duty. Enjoy
News - 30/12/03
Quote of the <<fill in appropriate time unit here>>
"Those who aim to give the public what the public wants begin by underestimating the public taste and end by debauching it."
TS Eliot
Just in time for the new year, here are two articles fresh from the pen of Anton Buxley, the Collection's newest member. Actually, I lie. One of them isn't that fresh at all. It's about the BBC's Big Read competition, which finished a few weeks ago. But it is still very topical, very good, and you should all read it here.
The other article is the start of an occasional series called Shut Up, in which Buxley reflects on life and where it all went wrong. Read it here.
Also new is a quiz-type thing on the irony page. Correct answers will win a prize, and so will incorrect prizes that we like. The answers will be published when we feel like it.
And now, everyone at the Collection would like to take this opportunity to be the only website ever not to wish its readers a Merry Christmas and a Happy New Year. Or Happy Chanukah. Or Happy whatever-festival-you-crazy-wrong-people-have-at-this-time-of-year. Or even Season's Greetings. Here at the Collection we strive for originality.
News - 20/11/03
I am pleased to announce that as of, oooh, about twenty minutes ago, my website has changed its name to The Decca Clark Collection, and will contain articles by other people, or at least, those people who bribe me sufficiently. Here is the press release that was issued to the stock exchange yesterday morning.:
"Decca Clark is pleased to announce that in keeping with the Decca Clark brand's stated strategy of synovation and improvation, a new-look, all-new, all-new-improved design has been developed under the name of The Decca Clark Collection. The new, enlarged editorial team hope the introduction of a new streamlined approach to stuff will significantly reimpact on the brand's potential, allowing it to improve on base performance targets and build for short and long term enhanced exponential successivity."
Click here for a list of contributors.
Click here for the first non-Decca article, extracts from DeeAnn Q Feldspar's new book, The One-Stop-Shop For All Your Self-Help Needs.
Coming soon
An article by me on the iniquities of the British press, and a diverse selection from the writings of that great critic, Anton Deck.
New contributors are welcome We accept articles from each end of the political spectrum, as long as those from the right-wing make it clear they are wrong.
Links to the other pages are opposite.
Feel free to tell me what you think, suggest improvements, etc, by emailing me or signing the guestbook. Hope you enjoy.
I like flowers. My favourites are daisies, but I also like roses, and I'm a big fan of the little-known flower, "follower of God", nicknamed so because of the way it turns its face to the sky. Here are some pictures.
A daisy
A rose
A "chrystadoulos
chrysanthemum"
