When I was younger, a teenager perhaps, or aged in my 20s and 30s, my friends and I had conversations about science, philosophy, literature, atheism, film, history, careers, politics. Now I am 80 we talk about cancer, heart attacks, bone breakage, kidney failure, dementia, liver disease, sleep problems, failing senses.
It was a very good year Read More »
Just a reminder. My latest memoir has recently appeared: This is the prequel chronologically to my earlier memoir which is still available: Hope you all enjoy if you haven\’t already…
What happened to the America that produced Woody Guthrie, Pete Seeger, Bob Dylan and Joan Baez? And what happened to the Americans who bought their records in millions and attended their concerts in thousands? Asking for a friend.
As I slowly return to the land of the blogger after very little activity for the last 2 and a half years I thought I should lay down some blog markers for my subscribers and casual visitors. Your host is Australian by birth and British by ancestry. I became an Atheist at a young age,
When you are young you think, wrongly, that your current pleasant state of health and fitness and mental acuity and a sense of boundless possibilities in the life ahead, will last forever. When you are old the opposite of all that is true.
The most important function of the internet is to quantify the incredible level of mental illness among the owners, content providers, and subscribers of the world. Time was you would only encounter such madness in letter writers to newspapers, or men standing on a platform in a park on a Sunday, or in the pulpit.
As of yesterday Australia now has 4 tertiary institutions with that most oxymoron of all oxymoron names \”Religious Unviversity\”. It must be time for me to give up on the country in despair.
Some time ago, oh, I don\’t know, 30 years perhaps, I was moving a small flock of sheep from one area to another. They were well-behaved sheep and easy to work, so they were just moving in a clump before me as I absentmindedly walked behind them. Suddenly I became aware that the flock had
Snakes in the grass Read More »
Has anyone in real life (not the movies) ever said, in response to some pereceived danger, \”oh well, gotta die some time\”? Of course not, yet somehow script writers have people speaking this sentence all the time.
These last 20 years I\’ve felt as if I was an extra/patient on the medical tv show \”House\” – the ones who turn up, with odd symptoms that baffle all the doctors except, ultimately, Gregory House himself. But in my 20 episode version, instead of having a different patient every week with new strange diseases,
Hey Greg, me again Read More »
