Of late I've been working on a series of paintings, some of which will be available as prints. Here's some of the latest, all 7"x5" and done in watercolour and gouache on canvas (and yes I have learnt my lesson. Yes, it's definitely paper next time). When I get the website going, the prints should be easy to order etc etc. For now, this is just a ( Read more... )

David Kato's funeral illustrates schism of Anglican Church

Music, Money and Hip Hop Honeys was a look into the world of the infamous 'video chick' so common across the UK and US hip hop scenes. Overall, I found it well presented with Hedayat's informal method of interviewing played to it's strength. She managed to ask probing questions in a way the interviewee wouldn't find too rude whilst still ( Read more... )

Ugandan LGBT Advocate Murdered

Humanist anti-witchcraft campaigner Leo Igwe ‘brutalised’ in police custody

As usual over the holidays, I found myself watching more television than I normally do. Due to the weird sleeping patterns of the eternally cramming student, I found myself watching a lot more television than I normally do and now I am free fromt he shackles of revision and examination stress, I am going to write about them in the usual manner of ( Read more... )

Someone else I'll be needing to read up on. As with most of these 'big names', they seem so much more sensible than the people they inspired...

On Claude Levi Strauss

One of the more common examples used as evidence of why old time monarchy was a very bad thing is the borderline psychopath that was Henry VIII. I've always wondered about this, not so much because I disagree with the sentiment, but because it goes hand in hand with another question of mine when it comes to his tumultuous reign and that is how the ( Read more... )

“Absurdities often sound profound because they are incapable of being understood.”

R.C. Sproul

Political Satire is Dead,
This I know
Because I watched
The 10 o'clock Live show.

 I've still yet to sort my life out - at the moment I've exams and thus am undergoing the usual periods of manic revision and depression (though can I say I think I am improving my studying habits of last year and what do you know now we're being taught the facts of life as they stand, suddenly all the little facts and weird random equations make ( Read more... )