Let’s imagine you got out of your ground floor when that cold mass of water swept in, and your piano is under water, and your porcelain geegaws are circling your living room in a whirlpool of chintz. Let’s imagine you didn’t die in that first impact; that you weren’t one of the poor souls who […]
I am a pretty worthless human being who does not invest much into… well, anything, any more. There comes a time in your life, especially in your mid-forties, when the endless array of CGI reboots, flashes of starlet beaver, and new neocon absurdities into yet more dusty Arab countries, fails to provide the necessary CPR […]
When I was a kid, living in England, I was transfixed by a series of occasional television programs presented by Northern Irish historian and “TV personality” James Burke. A man possessed of immense charm and authority, he nevertheless resembled - with his outsize spectacles and semi-afro – the quintessential idea of a slightly sexed-up egghead: […]
I’m having one of those days where I just can’t… focus on what’s emanating from my computer. Just as Nicholas Carr predicted (a writer for The Atlantic whom I quoted in my last blog), I’ve become one of those people who increasingly can’t be bothered to dig too deep or for too long for information […]
NOTE: once you have read this blog, you can find an abbreviated version of it… at the end of this blog. Should you be able to read all of this blog, and compare it with the ‘abstract’ at the end of this blog, you will know why… BUT, current studies (see below) are indicating […]