Posted in Bits'n'Bobs, England, Mini Rants on Feb 17th, 2009 No Comments »
==== AN OPEN LETTER ====
I am at a loss for words…
Well I was, but I have subjected myself to intense pyschotherapy since receiving your letters beginning in 2008. Feeling somewhat repaired I now seem to have enough vocabulary restored to respond to your most recent correspondence.
This is the second debarcle I have had with you [...]
Posted in Mini Rants, Poetry/Lyrics on Jan 14th, 2009 No Comments »
Have you forgiven?
forgotten?
Remembered that awful moment…
Dwelled in anger on the cusp of…
Stomping about,
making a point,
talked…
more than you listened…
or,
remembered accurately.
You are beautiful,
you just keep getting,
the herd dust in your eye?…
Look again…
on another shelf?
on another self?
Bull… stomping…
in a China shop?
playing with meaningless cliches…
as a substitute for,
meaning?
Awesome experience,
this life,
hey?
Get to live and die,
if you choose…
in your heaven,
or your [...]
Posted in Bits'n'Bobs, Mini Rants, SocioPolitical on Jul 31st, 2008 No Comments »
I dont’ know about you but I’m not a great fan of anger.
Not sure why - think it might be that it’s destructive rather than constructive - for both yourself and ‘the other’ (the ‘target’) - anger on a personal level…
Personally I was ‘lucky’ in some ways - didn’t really ’see’ anger until I was [...]
Posted in Bits'n'Bobs, England, Mini Rants on May 2nd, 2008 No Comments »
I met a ’stranger’ at a pub the other day. I was out walking and he, copious amounts of ‘claret’ running down the left hand side of his face, was evidently on bicycle transport. He had had quite a bingle and re-configured his left cheek quite substantially… I was quite concerned but he wasn’t [...]
Posted in Bits'n'Bobs, Mini Rants, Poetry/Lyrics on Feb 23rd, 2008 No Comments »
Till the earth until we die…
War in the middle east today,
and,
I don’t know why.
Oxen strains plough shears through the sand…
Starving children in Africa today,
and…
I just don’t understand.
Patter the clay, new home,
brick by brick…
Money men killed another forest today,
and…
I feel sick.
Drought this year,
earth scorched bare…
More space junk in the sky today,
why…
don’t I care?
Stable the horses from [...]
Posted in Bits'n'Bobs, England, Mini Rants, Technology on Jan 30th, 2008 1 Comment »
Having only recently entered the world of in-car GPS navigation I have to say I’m reasonably impressed… and on a number of levels.
Firstly, having been the ‘uber-geek‘ in the past (and modest too…), I’m pleased that on this occasion that I haven’t had to contribute much to research and development in this particular area. You [...]
Posted in Bits'n'Bobs, Mini Rants, Technology, The Main Thread on Jan 14th, 2008 No Comments »
Well, having been using Vista for about a month (it was OEM’d on a machine I got - I didn’t really choose it) I’m pretty sure I wouldn’t go out and buy it per se.
Service Pack 1 is on its way and by all account this boosts the speed quite a bit - original announcement [...]
Posted in Cultural, Mini Rants, SocioPolitical, The Main Thread on Oct 31st, 2007 No Comments »
Immersed in War of the Worlds, Live on Stage! I can’t quite imagine how one could, audio-visually, make oneself feel any smaller… (and, in my case, deafer :-) )
A fantastic tale - an amazing concert - many talents - the story, a good way of reinforcing the hopelessness we live in, even in fantasy - [...]
Posted in Mini Rants, SocioPolitical, The Main Thread on Oct 22nd, 2007 No Comments »
That, the title, an infamous media line, immortalised by ‘The Dude’ in the cult classic The Big Lebowski.
But that’s not what I came here to talk about…
(another infamous line, coined by Arlo Guthrie in Alice’s Restaurant)
Both, in their way, are about what I’m thinking about writing about. I’ve observed a thematic tendency to my [...]
Posted in Mini Rants, Poetry/Lyrics, SocioPolitical, The Main Thread on Sep 30th, 2007 No Comments »
A starting point for the theme of this post is ‘personal knowledge’…
It’s somewhat difficult to explain, but I’m going to have a ‘crack at it’ anyway. The original theme was ‘knowledge, what a blessing’ - but as you can see - just the language of that could easily be confused into some quasi-religious [...]