F 'ING Australian GP!
Mar. 15th, 2008 04:39 am![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
rain_gryphonSo, Hamilton is on the pole for Sunday. Kubica came surprisingly close to edging him out.
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The Australian GP has Kiss playing a concert. The Five Hundred is going to have the Stone Temple Pilots. Somehow, without my really noticing the change, it's become de rigeur to have a musical act at races. I don't really mind it all that much, although it's just completely irrelevant IMHO. There seems to be a general impulse to turn everything into a multi-media festival anymore.
Attendance at major sporting or cultural events seems to be roughly where magazine subscriptions were in the Victorian age. Most middle class families can afford one or two, so there's an impulse on the seller's part to pack in something for everyone to attract waverers. That's what really distinguished middle Victorian magazines, was the general nature of most of them. You don't get highly specialized magazines (apart from professional journals) until the 1920s or so. It's odd that we've reached a level of affluence where going to the Grand Prix represents a use of disposable income that subscribing to a magazine would have in 1860 or so.
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The Australians seem to be at some pains to have their banners say "Formula 1 ING Australian Grand Prix" this year. One wonders why...
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The Australian GP has Kiss playing a concert. The Five Hundred is going to have the Stone Temple Pilots. Somehow, without my really noticing the change, it's become de rigeur to have a musical act at races. I don't really mind it all that much, although it's just completely irrelevant IMHO. There seems to be a general impulse to turn everything into a multi-media festival anymore.
Attendance at major sporting or cultural events seems to be roughly where magazine subscriptions were in the Victorian age. Most middle class families can afford one or two, so there's an impulse on the seller's part to pack in something for everyone to attract waverers. That's what really distinguished middle Victorian magazines, was the general nature of most of them. You don't get highly specialized magazines (apart from professional journals) until the 1920s or so. It's odd that we've reached a level of affluence where going to the Grand Prix represents a use of disposable income that subscribing to a magazine would have in 1860 or so.
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The Australians seem to be at some pains to have their banners say "Formula 1 ING Australian Grand Prix" this year. One wonders why...
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