The Bus Book - w/c 31st March - Libra
Don DeLillo's Libra takes on the great rift in the American psyche; that which opened up on 22nd November 1963 when Kennedy was assasinated. Whatever the nature of the man, one thing became true form…
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The guilty pleasure that is H P Lovecraft
Over the last couple of days I've taken a break from Don DeLillo's 'Libra' and have returned to one of my all time favourite horror / science fiction writers, H P Lovecraft. In particular, I'm re-rea…
The Bus Book - w/c 24th March - The Social Entrepreneur: Making Communities Work
Andrew Mawson (now a Cross Bencher in the House of Lords) has written a very important book with this work. It chronicles his experiences in Bromley-by-Bow, an impoverished area of East London, from …
Will no one think about the children...
I'm a big fan of 'The Simpsons' and in one episode there is a morally outraged female character who keeps screaming the expression 'Will no one think about the children' whenever something crops up. I…
Reluctantly joining Facebook....
Sigh..... That it should come to this. Unfortunately a group I belong to is going to be using Facebook, and given that I'm supposed to be the IT guy, I am expected to know how it works. So, I've regi…
A great site - www.thisisawar.com
Earlier on today I was looking for the text of the 'vision thing' speech from the start of Jerry Maguire. As to why I was looking for it - let's just say I needed some motivation. For those of you w…
The Bus Book - w/c 17th March - On Civil Disobedience
As the copy I have of 'On Walden pond' also includes this essay, it seemed churlish to not feature it here. Thoreau spent a night in prison during his time at Walden, because he neglected to pay a loc…
Arthur C Clarke - RIP
Bugger. Like a lot of things, I guess that in my heart of hearts I knew that eventually all the venerable old writers of science fiction, the folks who I grew up with, would all pass away. When it st…
The Gods of the Copybook Headings
I cam across a reference to one verse of this poem by Rudyard Kiplingthe other day when I was reading, and given the news at the moment of collapsing banks and general financial turmoil, I thought it …
The Bus Book - w/c 10th March - On Walden Pond (continued)
As you can see I didn't do an exceptional amount of commuting last week, and Walden remained the Bus Book for this week as well. As I've progressed through it I've come to the conclusion that whilst I…