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 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...

When two wimps collide, they can annihilate one another. read more >

 I have been a victim of the æsthetic fallacy and a pathetic policy of trusting people I think are beautiful.

for my next self-portrait. It is by my favourite portrait-painter. Hans Holbein the Younger. My very different prostrate subject from 1985 ....

Actually, I'm feeling pretty good but we're not intimate and you don't want to hear about my current stage of joyful solitude in...

(apparently) is that the current focus on (not to say obsession with) identity is imprisoning, not liberating. Unlike dogs, we are so blocke...

My second-favourite white wine (from Alsace) costs twice as much as my favourite (which is local). But as the old saw says, Variety is the S...

how our emotional pain became a product.' Emotional pain is not only encouraged, but actually 'whipped up' where it is seen by t...

a Great Healer, more a sticking-plaster.

El Sueño (In Bed). Hilda Trujillo, guardian, at a window of the Casa Azul, Coyoacán, where Frida lived. 

people will have forgotten Gaza as I forgot Goražde, Bosnian enclave on the Drina.

It's not despair, nor terror of the future. nor resignation...somewhere in between, perhaps ? Not hopelessness, but horror. I am a priso...

Débris from WW2 weapons meant to kill provide rare safe havens for once-thriving, now-threatened species in the over-fished Baltic .

The problem with and for General Practitioners is that they know far more about drugs than about their patients or people in general.

Irish emigrants to the USA, 1850 Contrary to nurtured assumptions few female Irish emigrants became domestic servants, cooks, wives and moth...

 I welcome my dehumanisation. Point me to lone-lupinisation.

that Israeli soldiers did not make Palestinians dig their own mass graves in which the dying lay in neat rows on top of the dying and the de...

Our fascination with rare violence, tiger-hunters and serial murderers reflects and distracts us from our daily eco-crimes of drinking tea a...

and, by the way, on the www nothing is unrepeatable.

Very soon, we will no longer have to descend into Hell:  we have diabolically arranged for it to rise up and enfold us.

Do fiends enjoy themselves in Hell, or only out of it (at leisure) or both, or neither ?

is on the march – not corruption of  the system but corruption as the system.

Rescued fruit-bats in an Australian hospital.  

Long live  Pathological Apathy ! Its absence is human insanity does-laziness-start-in-the-brain   ?

“What we have here in America  is not so much censorship as self-censorship by the press.” – Journalist  Seymour Hersh , 'Lone-wolf tro...