Journalist David Brooks has some good advice for happiness: “I can’t resist concluding this column with some kernels of consumption advice accumulated by the prominent scholars Elizabeth W. Dunn, Daniel T. Gilbert and Timothy D. Wilson. Surveying the vast literature of happiness research, they suggest: Buy experiences instead of things; buy many small pleasures instead [...]
Posts Tagged ‘football’
Things to ponder : 02 September 2011
Posted in Things to ponder, tagged David Brooks, football, happiness, John Crace, Jonah Lehrer, Things to ponder on September 2, 2011 | Leave a Comment »
Why can’t the US build a football star?
Posted in What I'm reading, tagged football, World Cup on June 23, 2011 | Leave a Comment »
Matthew Futterman has an interesting article in The Wall Street Journal asking why no American has become an international football star : “The United States has won more than 1,000 Olympic gold medals. It has produced 26 British Open champions, 14 No. 1 tennis players and two winners of the Tour de France. It’s the [...]
Wonder goal
Posted in What I'm watching, tagged football, Wayne Rooney on February 13, 2011 | Leave a Comment »
Phil McNulty, BBC 78 minutes into the Manchester derby Rooney cast aside a season of relative under-achievement and occasional animosity with a strike that had a fitting home in the self-styled “Theatre Of Dreams”
Another four years
Posted in What I'm watching, tagged football, Iniesta, Spain, World Cup on July 12, 2010 | 2 Comments »
I am trying to come to terms with another four years without the World Cup. One remedy is to start saving so I can go to Brazil in 2014 and another is to reminisce on some highlights from the past four weeks: – while watching the final I didn’t understand the significance of Andres Iniesta [...]
Maxwell’s hot summer night
Posted in What I'm listening to, tagged BLACKsummers'night, England, football, Germany, Maxwell, music, World Cup on July 1, 2010 | Leave a Comment »
I managed to do one non-World Cup* related thing last weekend and catch Maxwell in concert at Madison Square Garden. I loved his first album, Urban Hang Suite, way back in 1996 but then completely lost track of him. As a result I didn’t even realise it was Maxwell performing at last year’s BET Awards [...]
Football is boring argument dies in US
Posted in NY-LON, What I'm watching, tagged England, football, soccer, World Cup on June 26, 2010 | 1 Comment »
Before the World Cup started I regretted not being in England due to the lack of enthusiasm in the US for my all-time favourite sporting event. So it has been a real, and wonderful, pleasure to be in New York and see interest leap one hundred-fold from four years ago. One American friend who works [...]
Football vs soccer
Posted in NY-LON, What I'm watching, tagged England, football, Nike, soccer, USA, World Cup on June 20, 2010 | 1 Comment »
“Not wishing to indulge in hyperbole of course but is this possibly the worst result since 1066?” Paul Bowler in the Guardian After Friday’s embarrassing performance by England I was wary of even thinking about football but it proved to be a good lesson in letting go – despite my heartfelt wishes there was nothing [...]
The power of football
Posted in What I'm watching, tagged Adidas, football, Nike, South Africa, World Cup on June 11, 2010 | Leave a Comment »
Nelson Mandela: “The 2010 Fifa World Cup is more than just a game: it symbolises the power of football to bring people together from all over the world, regardless of language, the colour of one’s skin, political or religious persuasion.” I have been counting down the days to the World Cup for the last four [...]
Nike’s World Cup ad
Posted in NY-LON, What I'm watching, tagged football, Nike, World Cup on May 21, 2010 | Leave a Comment »
I am sad that I won’t be in England during the World Cup where everything grinds to a halt during our team’s games and you truly feel you are taking part in a global tournament with billions of other football fans. The US is improving, and it is definitely better than four years ago, but [...]
