Oh dear, so sad, too bad. I am motivated to play a tune on Nick’s micro-violin.
Debate about climate change has been cut out of the national curriculum for children under 14, prompting claims of political interference in the syllabus by the government that has failed “our duty to future generations”.
Climate change? [...]
Posts under ‘Literature’
Govt. propose removal of AGW from under 14s curriculum, Guardianistas outraged
Back in Britain.
I have been back in Britain a few days (it feels like years), my impressions are….
“Evening Standard” on the late night-early morning train from the airport.
Weird article attacking “golf club Nazis” (for such clearly Nazi things as likeing Monty Python - no the article made no sense to me either). I have now remembered that [...]
The wit and wisdom of Raymond Chandler…
I like Raymond Chandler. I like him a lot. I can be obtained to expound on this for $25 a day plus expenses which are mostly whiskey and gasoline.
Chandler was a pulp writer but dear Gods his prose put most of his more “literary” contemporaries in the shade.
Did DH Lawrence ever write a line [...]
Hands off the Bard, you EU Statist Bastards!
Once more unto the breach, dear friends, once more; Or close the wall up with our English dead. In peace there’s nothing so becomes a man As modest stillness and humility: But when the blast of war blows in our ears, [...]
The truth about NAZIs
They’re actually “Nazis”.
The pure evil of Herr Hitler (scratch that “Herr” - it is a title of respect and honour that Hitler did nothing to command). I think it was Churchill who called him a “guttersnipe”. And he was right. Hitler was not some great Satanic figure. He was scum with terrible hair. [...]
Christmas Surprise
I got me a Chrissy pressie.
I put up a post a short time back, telling you all of my love for Thomas Grays Ode on the Death of a Favorite Cat Drowned in a Tub of Goldfishes.
Well, that posting led me back to this one, from some years earlier, and in turn I read this [...]
Naughty but Nice.
I’ve read “Midnight’s Children”. It is pretty cool. Now I read it in bed over many days. It was pretty ragged at the start but it was falling apart by the end. It’s a great book. It is also by any standards something I would call unfilmable.
So they filmed it. They did.
Get it via [...]
Friday night Jabberwocky
So, the Muppets?
The University of Utah Singers?
Or Count Dracula himself?
The terrible year of 1986.
A post on an often overlooked year - 1986. A year in which events occured that had (and are having) terrible consequences.
A British person when hearing of the date “1986″ will think (if they think of anything) of the “Single European Act” - formally it came into effect in 1987, but the agreement was made [...]
The Worst Pome (sic) Ever.
A Woman Cleaning Lentils.
A lentil, a lentil, a lentil, a stone.
A lentil, a lentil, a lentil, a stone.
A green one, a black one, a green one, a black. A stone.
Suddenly a word. A lentil.
A lentil, a word, a word next to another word. A sentence.
A word, a word, a word, a nonsense speech.
Then an old [...]
The Jerem(iad) Hunting of the Snark
According to The Guardian the greatest mystery of modern times has been solved by a cosmetic gynaecologist* from Florida. Yes, he has found the G-Spot of legend! The spot that launched a thousand Cosmos.
An aside: is it just me or are those magazines for ladies getting more bizarre in their sex “advice”. Cosmo or [...]
Trivia Sunday
Pierre Boulle wrote both Bridge over the River Kwai and Planet of the Apes, although the book was titled Monkey Planet back when I first read it.
Not a lot of people know that.
I guess after the film came out changing the book title made commercial sense.
M. Boulle knew no English and both books were written [...]
Saturday Civilisation–A Portent of a Progressive World
The Second Coming
Turning and turning in the widening gyre The falcon cannot hear the falconer; Things fall apart; the centre cannot hold; Mere anarchy is loosed upon the world, The blood-dimmed tide is loosed, and everywhere [...]
Challenging
Emma Alberici is an Australian Broadcasting Commission journalist. Being employed by the ABC she swims in a sea of intellectual conformity, never has her assumptions tested in lunchroom conversations with colleagues, and assumes her opinions are mainstream.
Then she interviews Melvyn Bragg……
Melvyn is a bit of a lefty isn’t he? How about bowling him a couple [...]
Friday Australiana
A BUSH CHRISTENING
On the outer Barcoo where the churches are few, And men of religion are scanty, On a road never cross’d ‘cept by folk that are lost, One Michael Magee had a shanty.
Now this Mike was the dad of a ten-year-old lad, [...]
