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Tom Watson: Manque Generation
Without even venturing to the upper reaches of Fifth Avenue, I unreservedly despise the Metropolitan Museum's new Costume Institute exhibition, PUNK: Chaos to Couture, which purports to "examine punk's impact on high fashion from the movement's birth ...
Dateline: 2013-05-06 5:31pm -07:00T (455 words)
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Tom Watson: The F-Bomb
When I was in the last years of grade school and an underclassman in high school - both Catholic, middle class, and predominantly white - there was one word that almost always guaranteed playground and sandlot bloodshed among adolescent males.
The word...
Dateline: 2013-04-30 3:16pm -07:00T (972 words)
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Tom Watson: Paranoia, The Destroyer
Hindsight broadcasts in full HD, but I remember thinking yesterday that the total lockdown ordered by authorities for the greater Boston metropolitan area - with the "shelter in place" order stretching from roughly Emerson's house down to the Adams fa...
Dateline: 2013-04-20 2:31pm -07:00T (1068 words)
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Tom Watson: Love Is All We Need Stand for marriage
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Dateline: 2013-03-26 8:46pm -07:00T (8 words)
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Tom Watson: Closing War Film Credits and the Iraq Apologia Genre
We watched Zero Dark Thirty the other evening, and it struck me that as a big screen country we've reached the cinematic region located roughly halfway between The Green Berets and Platoon in terms of how America copes on film with disastrous, ethics-...
Dateline: 2013-03-25 5:31am -07:00T (921 words)
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Tom Watson: Did We Miss Spring? Is the Pope Catholic?
As is our habit in these (long quiet) precincts, we usually turn to the fabulous M.A. Peel for all things Catholic, Irish, and Mad Men (usually in that order). So we can't let a season turn - though it really hasn't - without a nod to Ms. Peel's take ...
Dateline: 2013-03-24 5:31am -07:00T (207 words)
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Tom Watson: The First of Human Qualities
A number of years ago, my Parliamentary namesake the well-known Labour MP Tom Watson from West Bromwich East was kindly giving me a tour behind the scenes of Whitehall, where he was then running the Cabinet Office at the very center of the British Gover...
Dateline: 2013-03-23 8:46am -07:00T (708 words)
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Tom Watson: Google Trust
I run my business largely on Google's platform: email, files, calendar, my telephone number and easy syncing across multiple devices. I'm also a power user of Google's Android mobile operating system - it's my choice for both phone and tablet. Of course...
Dateline: 2013-03-22 1:16pm -07:00T (592 words)
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