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whole birds upon their heads 150 years ago. George Bernard Shaw complained about a complete seagull on a woman's hat, but, more modestly...

is a curious word, meaning no more than Information Offered , or, in French [informations] données, which may well be or be compatible with...

 

 

The plastic pen with which you write your shopping-list could last fifty million years. Fifty million of them have been manufactured in the ...

  Anselm Kiefer: Crows [in winter]

If the Well-fed of the World were told that they could Save the Planet by wearing the same clothes for a fortnight (as I do) rather few woul...

to cope with one's own consciousness let alone other people's.

most-shoplifted in Russia is

and the total war thereafter they will bomb the dams and free the rivers.  

My two political heroes: the artist and the comedian. Edi Rama & Volodomyr Zelenskyy   Two works by Edi Rama : and a link here  to a pa...

less bad about being human I imagine that I'm just a small root-ache of a tree.

Not worth watching on youTube.

Jarbridge (Nevada). He looks worried. Strange wording: are his current friends not good enough or has he none at all ? Or has his best frien...

alpha-males rule the roost. * In the military-industrial sense only. A recent piece of research commissioned by the UK's Channel 4 TV su...

I got a headache from reading about the process.

and the sun still shines.   from Flags of Iran.

"I made America great again." "...the lone and level sands stretch far away." Percy Bysshe Shelley

Because I was interested in locating the mountain under which Iran is falsely alleged (by dangerous lunatics) to be making nuclear weapons, ...

the stupid and uninformed knew they were stupid.  But now most of the stupidest people have been to and through university.

-  probably .

Human understanding is inferior to yours. So perhaps you understood and understand just now just how I loved you.  Love is prance. You pranc...

I don't really know what people mean by Loss of Innocence .  Is innocence not just a 19th century word for naivety ? Or is it something ...

is terribly unnatural and has inexorably led to the world-beating catastrophe of the nuclear family.

"that it not only changes the present, but that it reaches back with its dirty hands and changes the past." – Hilary Mantel, A Cha...

Death is the sound of thunder at a picnic. For me, it is the silence of lightning at a funeral.

Zionist Warmongers attack Terrorist Tyrants. Temu offers cheap diapers for geese. Discarded clothes dumped in protected Ghana wetlands.

A single conflated neologism can say a great deal about our self-obsessed and infantile culture of 'individuality'.

and some ordinary old run-of-the-mill cheerless stuff. 

Everybody knows that the world's in trouble. No-one cares what it's been through. Everybody knows that the end is coming. Let's ...

CLOSED TODAY DUE TO POLICE STATE.   Well, not exactly. Three and a half days after Pussy Riot ’s founder occupied her "durational"...

don't just sing. They also listen.

probably don't suffer from "impostor syndrome".

as a boy I carefully made monastery ruins and watched the incoming tide wash them away, no trace remaining. What a grasp of things I nearly ...

from a Dordogne cave in France: bear-scratching 'framed' by human engraving. photo by Christophe Archambault

Ambition Corrupts

that there are two kinds of people: the These and the Those . My contribution to the painfully long list of such simplistic contrasts is th...

in the Middle East and Ukraine, we can divert ourselves with the first photo of the hairy bottom of the sun.

surprisingly, has little to do with rugby* or with buggery, but with complicity and secrecy . * also known as rugger.

A very fine nude study of her lover by Tamara de Lempicka , 1928. It would have made a wonderful sculpture, too.  Could it have influenced H...

on Etsy, obviously generated by A.I., bears little resemblance to what will arrive by dropshipping .

"something must be done right away that much we know but of course it's too soon to act but of course it's too late in the day....

When I first checked my full name on Google around 2002 (after uploading three websites, but long beforeI had even heard of blogs) I found o...

The main entrance of the Medea Sanatorium in the Tskaltubo Sanatorium Complex, Georgia.

of self-justification. Just look at the U.S. of A.

is the name of a snobby and totally impractical, expensive cookware, made of enamelled iron. I bought a saucepan in 1969 after reading Frenc...

he said to me: I'm just not strong enough to be as vulnerable as you.  

Martin M. Miles: Noses & tails, Athens. Myself: Shadows and stove, two evenings ago. Jaime Saldarriaga, Plaza Botero, Medellín.

The world is what it is; men who are nothing, who allow themselves to become nothing, have no place in it. Pretty good cover, too.

there is now no widening gyre , no falcon - just Munch's Scream galloping along the burning,  pavements irradiated by the ire of the per...