You’re So Vain, You Probably Think This Blog Is About Pigs
cindyphillips My birthday calendar says we’ve got Orwell and Carly Simon on the same day? That’s literary-political sass and 70s self-aware sparkle rolled into one. Delicious! “All animals are equal, but…
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Ambrose Bierce and Mick Ralphs, Wondernauts
“Quotation, n: The act of repeating erroneously the words of another.” Ambrose Bierce I told Aggie I almost named him Ambrose, so many years ago, when I thought he was…
Ray Davies, Jean-Paul Sartre, and the Solstice
Today’s Brew: Existentialism, English pop, and a shared birthday June 21st isn’t just the solstice. It also happens to be the birthday of two men who couldn’t have looked more…
WHY NOT NOW?
You own your story, why not write it now? Is there a story inside you just waiting to be told? Whether you’re at the beginning of your writing journey, stuck…
EARWIG, CAREFUL HOW YOU GO!
“There was some women in a café the other week that I was sat in, and she came up and she sat down with her mate and she was talkin’…
ROTTERDAM IS ANYWHERE ALONE
Aesop’s Fables, The World’s Best Known Collection Of Morality Tales (circa 260 BC), provides the first instance of the caution ‘Be careful what you wish for’. I thought of this…
LOCATION LOCATION LOCATION
Have you thought about what kind of “senior living community” you want to die in? Godawful phrase that, innit, Senior Living? For most of my peers it is a perpetual…
EFFUSIVELY AFFLUENT FROM FRIENDSHIPS
“Each friend represents a world in us, a world possibly not born until they arrive, and it is only by this meeting that a new world is born.” Anais Nin…
CAN WE UNRAVEL THE BAMBOOZLE?
We’ve got ourselves a new cabinet, a brand new South African government; anything could happen. It’s all subjunctive, it’s all ‘what if this happens’, or ‘why didn’t they…’, that’s what…
MUSIC TO SLIT YOUR WRISTS BY?
It’s the anniversary of the death of Mahler. I’ve been ferreting out bits about his miserable messy life this week, because of Gropius, but I mustn’t digress to architecture here.…