I already have far too many blogs on my Fave list – I haven’t got the time to read them all on a regular basis. However, I really do have to add Pop Occulture to the list. He writes intelligently and knowledgably about pop culture and occultism, with loads of articles whose very titles scream […]
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This blog post made me weep….
Reading a couple of other blogs…. One is of a graphic artist/designer. Let’s call him Eejit. Never met him. but last year, he and I had an electronic spat when I dared to criticise his ghastly frames-ridden website in my blog. He was enormously childish about it. Not only was he personally abusive and sneering […]
I don’t do much artwork any more. And I’ve been asking myself why. Mainly, I just don’t feel compelled the way I used to be, to get out my sketchbook or my painting boards and express something graphically. When they ask why I’m not painting any more, I make the excuse to people that I […]
This morning, there was more bad news for the Home Office: Hundreds of inmates have escaped from open prisons. Shouldn’t the Home Office now consider a change of name? How about “The Lights Are On But Nobody’s Home Office”? And the ever-excellent Charlie Stross weighs in with a third blog post on the insuperable problems […]
Been quite a busy week again. Advanced my plans for making money online, and got a couple of new websites up. Got some new photos, but can’t upload them to my photoblog – probably because I’ve hit their storage limit. So I’ll look at Flickr now for a photogallery. Son is supposed to move into […]
Went into the woods this morning and got some pics of the bluebells. They’re late in blooming this year, as everything is. But now they’re out, it’s a beautiful sight!
First it was Opus Dei, then it was the Catholics. Now albinos have it in for Dan Brown’s bestseller: As Tom Hanks’ “The Da Vinci Codeâ€? opening looms May 19, featuring an albino character as a murderous, self-flagellating monk, a Hingham-born albino moviemaker is set to screen his own film tomorrow in Boston that wryly […]
Don’t have time to read all this article now, but it seems to have some good points: Something terribly important has been missing from discussions orbiting around the Mohammed cartoons. It’s a simple point, but one whose recognition is utterly crucial to the functioning of a healthy democratic society. The avoidance of it is, I’m […]
I get a regular email newsletter on SF literature from Dave Langford of Ansible. Here’s one of the regular features – excerptsfrom SF novels that could have been rather better written: Dept of Uncertain Albedo `Her shining hair absorbs all light.’ (Joan D. Vinge, _World’s End_, 1984) [BA] Sheepish Metaphor Dept `The big destrier liked […]