An alignment of birds

There are moments, not as rare as we might think, in which our differences as geese or mallards or ducks are suspended by the very present moment in which the tensions take place. This shows that our inner and outer settings are both as susceptible to a system of temperatures and vicissitudes and change. There […]

The year of the flying monkey

2015 was a great year for the medium of music, hopefully not to the expense of other mediums, so presumably 2016 will be better. I really enjoyed going back in time with the YouTube tardis this January; I discovered manifestations of energy long forgotten and sealed away from present pleasure, and this needed rectifying. I […]

January 25, 1882

10 Things you may or may not know about Virginia Woolf 10. Edward Albee’s play has nothing to do whatsoever with the writer 9. She never had children 8. The finest biography of her is not by her nephew but by a contemporary of you and me called Hermione Lee 7. She wrote viciously in […]

42

Dear Diary, Getting through 33 was ok. Getting to 42 will be interesting though, because by then my seven and a half million years of deep thought will have ended, and I alone will know the Answer to the Ultimate Question of Life, the Universe, and Everything, which I then will of course begin to […]