What I wanted to read was Holidays in Hell but the book is too old to be stocked in my library so I had to make do with Heck, a book that is obviously in the same vein, just filled with 'B' material. I preferred the chapters that included travelling with his children and think I could do a comparable piece about our trip to Egypt, three kids under 8 in tow.

I was surprised to read that as early as 2008, Chicago was rewriting their museum material in the new anti-colonial style AND that the author could be so loud in his disdain for this rewrite. I'd forgotten there was a time when journalists could risk offending someone; that journalists took it in stride that there would always be someone to take/fake offence. Oh well, at least I got a taste of gonzo journalism and learned some obscure factoids.