For the first time in a long while, Bogotá (the capital of Colombia) has had one whole day of radiant blue skies. This year, the typically wet season months in Bogota – April and May extended their melancholic deluge into…
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More on Fyodor Dostoevsky’s Writing
Fyodor Pavlovich (FP): ‘…I’d put an end to that little monastery of yours. Take all this mysticism and abolish it at once all over the Russian land, and finally bring all the fools to reason. And think how much silver,…
Tagged with: Crime and Punishment, Fyodor Dostoevsky, Jordan Peterson, The Brothers Karamazov
Posted in Reading, Reflections
Posted in Reading, Reflections
Is Ben Shapiro’s Political Career over for Good After The BBC interview?
Something that has been trending of late on social media is Ben Shapiro’s controversial interview with BBC journalist Andrew Neil where Shapiro cut short the TV debate. The interview has sparked the question in many leftist circles: Is this the…
Tagged with: Andrew Neil, BBC, BBC Interview, ben Shapiro, IDW, Intellectual Dark Web
Posted in politics, Reflections
Posted in politics, Reflections
The Happy Prince – Oscar Wilde (adapted and directed by Orson Welles)
When I was a child, I used to play this record incessantly. (Part 1 & 2 of the audio below). Today, as a 45 year old man, it still brings a tear to my eye! It remains the most beautiful…
Tagged with: bing crosby, Citizen kane, orson welles, oscar wilde, the happy prince
Posted in Reading, Reflections
Posted in Reading, Reflections
11.00 am ANZAC Day 2003
My brother Jonny and I sat on two wooden chairs opposite the bed hunched over our knees. Numb. The chairs had never got so much use as they did that morning nor would they get any kind of practical use…
Imbecile (1979) Tarot Suite – Mike Batt and Friends
No other album was played as often in our house during my youth than Tarot Suite by Mike Batt (with the London Symphony Orchestra)
The Puss’ Bus is for Us
Some Navy members referred to their vocation as the ‘Puss’. Personally, I found it an ill-bred term because I was a stuck-up son a of a bitch. But I cackled when a drillie berated our whinging group, “Build a bridge…
Posted in Movies and TV, Reflections
‘Watching (Yourself) Like You Are a Snake’
‘Watching (yourself), like you are a Snake’
Murky Waters
Deeper thoughts lay withinA cove of great despairIt’s sad and it’s of murky watersOnce shone a lustrous blue Touching remains sunk deep withinOh, time heals everything, butYour stirring love, scarring detailTreasure chest full, rusted and torn I hear on the…
The Tattoo
When I was in my late teens I wanted a tattoo. The Navy seemed like the right place to make this happen. Tattooing, I learnt had been linked with the seafaring life of the Navy for centuries. I remember one…
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