Ursula Le Guin has recently come out with some more Tales from Earthsea. Although I think fantasy as a genre has collapsed into endless boring repetition, and my interest in SF has flagged as well, I’ll always make an exception for anything by Le Guin.

I also went to see Shout!, the musical of the life of Johnny O’Keefe. Jason’s proposal for an all-economist band rang some bells with me after this.

In sporting news, my younger son and I went bowling, as we do fairly regularly, and came close to our PBs with 128 and 177 respectively. This wouldn’t justify a blog report, except for the observation that we are part of the phenomenon of ‘bowling alone’, claimed by Robert Putnam to epitomise the erosion of social capital (‘alone’ isn’t to be taken literally, it means ‘not in a league’). So, if you notice society collapsing around you, blame us.