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of the End of the World is much more fun than it was at the Beginning, when I was a child, though we are slowly roasting.

numbers 5, 6 and 7. by Hew Locke

used to be antidisestablishmentarianism (being against the unique constitutional status of the Church of England). But  pseudoneuropsychopha...

is the only wisdom." - Jean-Noël Orengo, author of 'You are the F ü hrer's Unrequited Love'.

A little paradise for me, full of temptations.

and the oaths of chastity & confidentiality. The Cardinal said to his sexy psychiatrist 'Down by the quays the semen of seamen sets ...

Sky eels are done deals to degrade the planet. I trimmed my beard and shaved my head: I'm sorry that I look washed-out and worried: I pr...

" When pro-Trump billionaires Larry and David Ellison bought CBS News last year, they put a MAGA-friendly opinion writer in charge and ...

 When Viktor Orbán declares that the runt of the Hungarian Empire has proudly become an Illiberal Democracy, he really means that it has bec...

that Aspies hate. I startled my rarely-seen never-visited, closest neighbours as they passed today by replying that old age was turning out ...

from The Guardian ten days ago "We’ve been together 14 years now, seven of them married, and our sex life is still thrilling and still...

 in Abidjan.

of 2026, while out collecting nettle-tops for my nettle-and-hummous omelette-without-stings this evening - I eat simply. And water-cress fro...

this insulting monstrosity is worth one million euros, and has been won in a charity raffle for €100. In the (my) real world it is worth may...

dear Publius Virgilius, is all too easy with a VPN and the Tor browser. *(Should I call it the Plutosphere ?) There are nice pictures to mak...

Worth reading:

Isn't A.I. miraculous ?

that progress is an abbreviation of progressive infantilisation.

for the first time in two years. I never use it anyway, nor the shower. And I finished my new self-help book, called Hygiene Without Tears.

In Beijing streets there is birdsong in the air. Most of the traffic is new and electric. about a mile from Tiananmen Square  we heard a woo...

is so miserably cramped that Eternity would snigger even if it noticed it.

(Baloney = Bologna = a type of American sausage, I think.) Recent views of this little blog. Did I go viral ?  

What keeps you awake at night?  Wondering why I can’t sleep.

Having a meaningless Christian forename (Antonius/Antoninus) I have always admired Nordic ones such as Stone, Sun, Bear, Wolf, Womb, Life, S...

As would any mastermind, the sun has found a loophole in our atmosphere.

 

  Hello Earth!

  When I was a student, I somehow got a Christmas job at Belfast’s most up-market tobacconist, an impressive emporium called Leahy, Kelly an...

Prebuttal , as in 'But the longer Melania went on,  the more this sounded like a  prebuttal   of allegations that may be about to break...

is not a ear-catching name, but re-cast by Dumas as The Fourth Musketeer, I read about his exploits and those of his pals,  and his pals...

The yellow bit is the important one. Photograph: cirp GmbH   3D-printed model of the clitoris based on the work of Ju Young Lee.  Yellow str...

Fresco in the church of Matamorisco (translatable as Slaymoors) in Palencia (North-Central Spain), showing the Weighing of Souls by the Arch...

 

It was 27°C yesterday. I still wore my thermal  winter underwear.  But the bullfrogs this morning are clamouring for me to remove at least o...

An ancient, blunt multi-tasked word Bitch (much older than Cunt) can easily switch from noun to verb to adjective much used, much deplored, ...

 Scores of Easter Mondays ago my mother and I would break and eat our Easter Eggs (hard-boiled, not the chocolate obscenities) at dolmens or...

If a disclosure of the plot spoils a book for a reader, then the reader or the book is a bottom-feeder.

to commemorate the 1916 Rising in Dublin which Sir Roger Casement hastened futilely (by German submarine) to prevent.   This is a view of a ...

 “I perfected a trick briefcase,” my hero  Jean Genet recalled, “and I became so adept at stealing books that I could conduct sleight-of-ha...

Cold War days, Marcusians and other far-left agitators who ignored big and small realities surrounding the Soviet Union, declared that Israe...

photo by Toby Meville.

to language in our defence against reality.

is that it arose out of protestant puritanism which made work the only path to heaven, so socialists worship work. 

especially for budding fruit-trees and vines. This year it's a good month for ploughing. Detail of 12th century tapestry of Girona in Ca...

is notoriously variable but more reliable than people.

 

my would-be-poems are depressingly-judgemental and probably, like myself, under-developmental. Being 'a failure' isn't a lot o...

Translate google Dada Dada google translate In many parts of the world yesyes in others givegive andand formerlybefore past wouldshot &c...

who hid in a cave and watched a stationary spider, which taught him patience. Such a spider adheres to my stairwell wall. I will not insult ...

   The above-normal temperatures in France so far this year have led to many vines budding early. In the early stage of budding (débourremen...