December, 2009

Singing Nun Scientist: From the wonderful Symphony of Science, whose mission should you choose to accept the invitation, is: a musical project by John Boswell designed to deliver scientific knowledge and philosophy in musical form. Here you can watch music videos, download songs, read lyrics and find links relating to the messages conveyed by the [...]

From Broome beach to Salamanca Place (or Ljubljana to LA), torsos are twisting and buttocks are “sharpening up,” pointing to the sky, and lotus sitters possibly chanting Om (that’s the character on the left). If you are practising yoga, you have B K S Iyengar to thank for the discomfort. As a fellow student said [...]

Just because. Famous Author Regrets and Must Decline At the peak of his fame, the late great litcrit Edmund Wilson had a standard postcard he sent out. The scrawl says “I don’t [do] live readings either when I’m offered a very large fee. EW” (Which reads oddly, but sic.) Amendment, see comment below: the “when” [...]

Note: I have, for reasons professional (deadlines), private (distracted by picture making) and transcendental (all the recent politics), delayed this post for a couple of weeks. But as it regards reading – for pleasure – it makes no difference. The Complaint: reading purgatory There’s that patch when you feel you really want to read something [...]

I only, even, with some reluctance, bring up the subject of our New Alternative Prime Minister because of an unexpected reaction. Coming across my father-in-law watching the news – it was wall-to-wall Tony Abbott and his ascension to the Liberal leadership – I said, you must be happy, he’s in your church. The old man [...]