June 2009
2 posts
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May 2009
15 posts
New Version of an old track →
Looking back on the Rushdie Fatwa →
The scary beginnings of the anti-free speech book-burning religous hooliganism so entrenched today.
Clive James - BBC - Still Looking for the Western... →
I have an unfinished version of a new track up on... →
The Library of Congress' Public Domain flickr... →
My Biggest Pet Peeves
People changing plans on you at the last minute.
People who tell you to hold off on making any other plans until they know what time would be good for them (especially when they don’t know until the last minute.)
Hovering waiters.
Disingenuously over-courteous waiters.
People who never respond to a personal email or even acknowledge having recieved it. (This peeve of mind does not...
My wednesday night workstation →
Click through to see the tag-filled nonsense.
“Next year we are to bring all the soldiers home
For lack of money, and it is...”
– Philip Larkin - Homage To A Government
(One of those strange instances of something written or said at an earlier date about an earlier situation fitting perfectly a situation in the present. A reflection on the possible consequences of abandoning a project before completed.)
Very funny Hitchens interview →
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Download my new tune: Act of Contrition from 8 Bit... →
WatchNINTENDO DIAZ!
April 2009
4 posts
BHL on Durban II →
‘The despair of the Burundians, Angolans, Sri Lankans, and other representatives of the untouchable Indians, or of the Christian minority of the Moluccas, who must have resigned themselves to the fact that their suffering would be lost in a debate hamstrung by this declaration: “Either the debate will focus on the question of Islamaphobia, the offense of blasphemy, or the racist nature...
BBC - Message in a bottle from Auschwitz →
“Several countries that still have a great deal to do in the area of human rights...”
– Dutch Foreign Minister Maxime Verhagen sums up the problems with the UN “Durban II” Conference on Racism.
Article in The New York Times
Peter Singer on the right to criticize religion →
March 2009
20 posts
N. Korea Said to Detain U.S. Reporters →
“Now Time’s Andromeda on this rock rude,
With not her either beauty’s equal or...”
– Andromeda
—Gerard Manley Hopkins
“She wore a ‘terra-cotta’ dress,
And we stayed, because of the...”
– A Thunderstorm in Town
—Thomas Hardy
Israel troops admit Gaza abuses →
“‘Tis said, that some have died for love:
And here and there a churchyard...”
– “‘Tis Said, That Some Have Died For Love”
—William Wordsworth
Battle of Yamen →
“Had I but plenty of money, money enough and to spare,
The house for me, no...”
– “Up at a Villa—Down in the City”
—Robert Browning
The Jewish Dybbuk →
WatchTotally sweet. <3 BHL <3 Hitchens
February 2009
103 posts
My Uncle Khushwant on the Pakistan Taliban →
Mark Twain's "Eve's Diary" →
One of my favorite Mark Twain pieces. Including my favorite last line ever. Nearly brings me to tears every time I read it.
“The Olympic Girl:
The sort of girl I like to see
Smiles down from her great...”
– Two poems by John Betjeman
“See her come bearing down, a tidy craft!
Gaily her topsails bulge, her...”
– “A Note on Wyatt” by Kingsley Amis