April 14, 2009 – 12:07 pm
The Delta has a rich religious heritage, and is a land where faith- in God, in the future, in grace, and in ultimate redemption – unify all people. Episcopal, Baptist, Methodist, and Presbyterian Churches are commonly represented in Delta towns.
By Bob Gosford
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Also posted in Religion, Some places I've been
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Tagged Abundant Life Pentecostal Church of God In Christ, African Methodist Episcopalians, Arkansas, Baptist, Charles Harrison Mason, Church of the End Times, Cleveland Mississippi, Delta Center for Learning and Culture, Delta State University, Freedmen, Greenwood, Little Zion Missionary baptist Church, Memphis Tennessee, Methodist, Missionary Baptists, Mississippi delta, Mississippi River, Morgan City, Mt. Zion Missionary baptist Church, Payne Chapel Missionary baptist Church, Presbyterian, Protestant, Quito, Robert Johnson, True Living Word Temple of Deliverance, Vicksburg
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Fans of good crime will recall the English translations of most, if not all of the Wallander novels have been available in Australia for the last few years. I hope someone working in the ABC or SBS catches up with these films and buys them for Australian release – by all accounts it is a series well worth watching.
Crows commute, heads down,
their line of black Fords slow
but steady. A heron keeps his Bentley in low gear.
By Bob Gosford
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Also posted in Art, Birds and people, The Arts, Writing and writers
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Tagged Dave Bonta, Festival of the Trees, Juniper Press, Mark Bonta, Moving Poems, Open Micro, Postal Poetry, Qarrtsiluni, Sarah Bennett, Shadow Cabinet, Spoil, Ten Poems about Highways and Birds, The Morning Porch, Tom Montag The Sweet Bite of Morning, via negativa, Visual Soma
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Margarets has been a work in progress over many years by the Reverend H. D. Dennis who was born in Rolling Fork, Mississippi in 1916. The min building has a long verandah fronted by a scattering of signs and sculptures across the front of the block. To one side is a jumbled and half-built, half-wrecked and slowly collapsing tower and an old bus which served, or may still serve, as a Chapel from which the good Reverend H D Dennis preaches.
By Bob Gosford
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Also posted in Art, Religion, Some places I've been, The Arts, Uncategorized
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Tagged Baton Rouge Louisiana, Cleveland Mississippi, folk architecture, Margaret's Grocery & Market. Reverend H D Dennis, Rolling Fork Mississippi, the Delta, UCM Museum, vernacular architecture, Vicksburg Mississippi
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The Zanzibar Leopard, Panthera pardus adersi, is an elusive and possibly extinct subspecies endemic to Unguja (Zanzibar) Island. It has presumably been evolving in isolation from other leopards since at least the end of the last Ice Age.
For a country blessed with immense environmental and cultural diversity we drastically undershoot the mark with adventurous and insightful writing about nature and life on this continent. Two recent collections of nature writing, both from other places, got me thinking about this.
By Bob Gosford
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Also posted in Art, The Arts, Uncategorized, Writing and writers
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Tagged Book of Nature, Chris Rose, Desert Solitaire, Edward Abbey, Jason Crowley, John Steinbeck, Lapham's Quarterly Granta, Lewis H. Lapham, Matsuo Basho, nature writing, Niall Griffiths, Paul Farley, The New Nature Writing
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January 31, 2009 – 9:00 am
Behind, beside and in front of us all is chaos. Hurtling at over 100 km/h down a steep, narrow and windy road through the Adelaide Hills. In front is a car with half-a-man’s body poking through the sun-roof – his arms are waving wildly and he is yelling into a hand-radio.
January 12, 2009 – 10:59 am
Martin has the bad back that I should have from too many years of carrying black boxes around.
Martin being back in Geelong reminds me of the last time we were there together – it was sometime in the summer of 1981-82 and we were doing a gig with the Laughing Clowns (he) and The Birthday Party (me) at the Eureka Hotel.
By Bob Gosford
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Also posted in The Law
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Tagged Alejandro Valverde, Alexander Vinocourov, Geelong Advertiser, Giro d'Italia, J M Coetzee, Jeffrey Wegener, John Sebastian, Martin Hardie, Old & New Dreams, Ornette Coleman, Paris - Roubaix, Paul Kelly, Slade, Spinoza, St Paul, The Birthday Party, The Laughing Clowns, Timor Leste, Vuelta d Espana
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January 7, 2009 – 4:32 pm
If you jump on a plane RIGHT NOW and get yourself to Mali in west Africa and somehow find your way out to Timbuktu and then get to the small town of Essakane and then hitch a lift to the gig, you just might make this year’s Festival Au Desert.
