“The roadside memorial is particularly important because it indicates to us that there is a new way looking at grief and mourning.” Jennifer Clark, UNE.
READ MOREJuly, 2009
The cross-examination of Jesus Christ – live on Hallelujah FM 95.7
I was trawling through an old notebook today and came across some spider-scrawled notes from my 400 mile road-trip from Cleveland in central Mississippi to Baton Rouge in Louisiana on Easter Sunday this year. Roadkill – armadillo, cats, dogs, birds (various), opossums, squirrels, snakes, skunk, toads, raccoon, deer, Turkey Vulture…
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Roadkill of the week – carnage on the Tanami Track
All about me lay the scattered, shattered remains – here the severed head, there a leg, stripped of flesh, next to the road another head, ten feet away a razor-taloned foot, wing and tail. Whatever had happened here had been brief and incredibly brutal.
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Teling peple howe too spellr rite…
The folks over at the oddly named spellr.us really do have a point – if the biggest and brightest universities can’t get it right – who is left that we can trust? Governments? Though you would think that spellr.us would at least have a typo-free public face.
READ MOREBranding the blacks – a “community of thieves” and the tyranny of terminology
Until we give back to the black man just a bit of land that was his and give it back without provisos, without strings to snatch it back, without anything but complete generosity of spirit in concession for the evil we have done him – until we do that, we shall remain what we have always been so far: a community of thieves – Xavier Herbert, Poor Fellow My Country.
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