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I believe in free speech...
Yep, for everyone, including you, me, the whole merry show at Westminster, the BNP, the Muslim clerics that talk about terrorism, Neo-Nazis, Michael Palin, Anti-Nazis, the LGBT crowd, the people that don't want anyone to frighten the horses, the Greek Orthodox Church, Satanists, pagans and Uncle Tom Cobley and all! ... ;o ( Read more... ) -
Quote of the morning...
“You cannot prove the nonexistence of God; you just have to take it on faith.”
-- Woody Allen -
Hard at it!
Finally, a good, dry weekend when I didn't have anything much planned ( Read more... ) -
Midgard shows its mettle!
A grand day, even though I have been gifted with a wee cold just at the moment ( Read more... ) -
When hadrons collide...
"Gentlemen, these are boffins..."
[This will make sense if you have, a) been listening to the way the current LHC story is being reported in the media, and, b) read Toby Frost's God Emperor of Didcot.] -
Meat and drink to soul and spirit
"All writers need a place, a centre. They need to be rooted, in order to write properly."
-- Peter Ackroyd, on Radio 4, just a few minutes ago.
For him, of course, it's London, and I'm heartened to hear that he's recently made a TV series of his book on the Thames, which stresses the sacredness of the river throughout history, and -
'Mongol'
Just back from seeing this movie at the Dukes this evening...
http://www.mongolmovie.com/
Fantastic!
It swept me away up into it, with so much wonderful Mongolian music making up the score...and a landscape and sky beyond words.
Go Temudjin! -
Art and culture
Formally I don't know much about art, but I do enjoy it, a lot of it, from prehistoric art and the art of the ancient world, through to medieval and renaissance art, and on to the much-maligned modern art ( Read more... ) -
Tell me, have you seen the Yellow Sign?
Crikey Moses ( Read more... )
