Vague Science - The Cartoons of Stephen Collins

Loved this cartoon in the Guardian Weekend mag on Saturday by their new cartoonist Stephen Collins...

Image by Stephen Collins from Guardian.co.uk

See more on the Guardian website - also love the 'I am the Internet'one. Genius.

Wabi-Sabi

"Broadly, it's the aesthetic that finds beauty in imperfection and transcience: on buildings beaten by wind and rain, in rough-hewn objects that hint at their inevitable decay, on the asymmetrical chipped, off-kilter pottery used in the Japanese tea ceremony."

- Oliver Burkeman, This Column Will Change Your Life: The Beauty in Imperfection. Read the full article here.

Now, isn't that a wonderful concept?

[http://www.thisbutterflymind.blogspot.com]

Saturday Grauniad

At weekends, I relish sinking into the Saturday Grauniad

Order of attack:

• Space - to look at beautiful stuff I cannot afford
• Ottolenghi's veggie recipes - for obvious reasons ...
  
• Writers' Rooms - to admire the inevitable creative chaos
• Lucy Mangan's Book Corner - I think she might actually be me
• Family - high-brow voyeurism
  
• Editorials - strident and entertaining
• Letters page - ditto, with added bonus of 101 uses for a 35mm film canister
  

And I tend to leave the Review as a solace for my weekday commute.

Of course, the paper merely reflects back at me my view of the world - I suppose I should really read the Mail or the Express to "broaden" my horizons and remind myself that the world is not full of sandal-wearing, muesli-eating middle class liberal intellectuals but why on earth would I want to do that?

Favourite bit so far in this week's edition: Lucy Mangan on The Wombles