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The wellness industrial complex !    Six rules to ditch – and what to do instead . Very little. Buy nothing.

It is a tragedy that this language has shackled and sleazed the word, offering no linguistic alternatives (as Irish offers several words for...

 

in the long, narrow valley of my life. He was my professor of philosophy, the gentle, self-effacing Bryce Gallie.

Even now sometimes I shockingly & unashamedly reveal, as I did in childhood, that I feel  the only power I have is to throw a tantrum.

my brilliant namesake. Meanwhile,

time's backwardness. I am אנ י The Great Yam or Yahoo in the sky. Don't ask me why. עֵת תעֵ

In the recent past, studies by Rubens have sold for between £500,000 and £1m or more. Composite: Peter Paul Rubens/Klaas Muller/Brafa Art Fa...

or simple criminality ? When I was just queer- ish, part of its attraction was its unacceptability – indeed, its illegality.

in Gaza .

A man I could fall in love with forever . Jon Yaxley  

I was born just a decade before the Hydrogen Bomb and the start of the long Explosions of Choice and Explosions of Ease (even - though sligh...

To most human minds silence and solitude are vacancy, not chance for trance sublime and strange nor to ponder, each in and on its separate ...

I love the taste of my sleeping-pills, which is not unlike 100%-cocoa chocolate. They are also mildly-antidepressant and free to the poor li...

Plus je connais les hommes, mieux j'aime les chiens ! The better I know men, the better I like dogs ! first appeared in print in 1822 in...

From what I have read in books and newspapers, it is often unpleasant to have a father. So, fatherless, I count myself lucky. But this has m...

never were. The legend of the epiphanic kings grew out of the stories of the Magi (sometimes numbering twelve) when Christianity ceased to ...

 

The Kufic script is lovelier than Islam. THE LATIN SCRIPT is not as ugly as missionary Christianity; the Hebrew script less beautiful than t...

for ' The Beginning of the End ' in 1593.

though strident is much less powerful than the old sleepwalking kind.  

is called self-esteem is really concern about the opinions of others.

you are, in fact, worthless. Capitalism always capitalises, and reduces us. * a famous Pepsi-Cola advertisement slogan.

 on a cold January morning. Taken when I had more hair. Then, nicely warmed up, I go and waken my canine pals.

years ago this was me. Longer ago than that, a rhinoceros sniffed Dalí  More recently, in Aït Mansour, I took tea. ⴰⵏⵜⵓⵏⵉ, ⴰⵉⵜ ⵎⴰⵏⵙⵓⵔ

on which to ride into 2026. Kidus Tesera  and his wood-framed bicycle

Hope, unfortunately, springs (or dribbles out) eternal from human cocks.

If it's a secret I don't want to know it.

Hooray ! Outside my door, 29-12-2025.

equinoctial, Christmas and New Year (and anytime-you-like) card. Thank-you, Bob.  To add to (and depict some) December gaiety here is a pain...

  Was this another Bromance ? Armenian Anastas Ivanovich Mikoyan   ( Անաստաս Հովհաննեսի Միկոյան, right) was the only one of the original Bo...

cut-out creatures of the universe, live as if we were significant. photo by Sergei Gapon  

The housed-and-well-fed bereaved grieving   or angry should have a passing, discomforting thought for the malnourished bereaved  who are hom...

The temperature was just two degrees when I woke up on Christmas Mo [u] rn  I put on my new moccasins (hardly worn) made in the distant orie...

Waste of resources Waste of space Industrial waste Human waste Life of waste Waste of life Time of waste Waste of Time Time misplaced

but Cézanne, the old grunter, did not admire van Gogh. By comparing these two self-portraits it's easy to see which is the 'better p...

The first, by Vincent van Gogh, is known as Portrait de Paysan (1889). But it is actually a portrait of Jean Barral , whose parents were wic...

Twelfth-century reliquary in Burgos Cathedral, Spain. I wonder if a non-Arab writer of the kufic script copied a line from left to right and...

of other (or 'other')  people be tolerable if they peeled off their masks ? Or would they still repel ?

has The Hotel of Non-existence ?

against the wall. Who's going to dine with me ? Nobody at all. My only friend here doesn't like my food and likes to eat in solitude...

professor Sven Beckert believes that the origins of capitalism were in Aden (the port-city of southern Yemen) in 1150 CE. But I in my ignor...

about Asperger's: when you get old it may creep back and take a hold.

15 Jews were killed in Australia because they were Jews – a few chosen by terrorists and by the world's news. 150,000 Sudanese have been...

Governance reduces everything but itself. And the government is as much your friend as the police.

 

Minorities have mushroomed in my lifetime. Only in my eighties did I realise that I am an untypically eye-contacting poly-æsthetic Aspy . Li...

inventor of the Word-wide Web, asked recently on the BBC how he'd manage, if he were to be permanently off-line said: I'd be fine.

because the Koala gets all it needs from eucalyptus leaves. It sleeps much of the time because so much energy is required to digest and det...

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