I generally avoid Netflix, Disney, and so on. There's very little to watch outside of the classics that's actually worth the time, and I've gotten back to spending more time reading. Nevertheless, with the holidays, and spending time with family and Christmas parties in a purple zone, I got more than a little exposure to what is currently popular or "funny." Yes, I know, libs have no real sense humor. The problem is that they think they have one. Yes, I also know a lot of words have been wr…
You can consider this the inauguration of a series - to insofar as possible, commemorate the events behind Sabatp's song on the anniversary of said events. I haven't mapped all of them to a calendar yet, so things may be incomplete for a while, but I've already seelcted dates for each song in The Great War. Today marks the anniversary of one of the first raids conducted by the Arabs in conjunction with T.E. Lawrence "of Arabia" against the Ottoman Empire. Incidentally, the story of Lawrence is…
I'd become accustomed to the dazzling variety of metal genres out there. Old school 70's metal, acid metal, black metal, death metal, speed metal, thrash metal, symphonic metal, power metal, folk metal... Filed under not quite as "what the hell did I just watch" as my introduction to BabyMetal, it turns out there is, indeed, a capella metal. Or the next best thing to it.…
I keep tabs on Bruce Charleton's blog, and so the recent post on Phil K Dick [https://charltonteaching.blogspot.com/2019/12/philip-k-dick-overview-so-far.html] caught my eye. > In the past couple of months I have read/ listened-to a dozen Philip K Dick novels, and most of the Exegesis - his philosophical and spiritual journal written during his last eight years. I haven't enjoyed a fiction writer so much, in such quantity, for several years. Certainly, I appreciate his work more fully this tim…
It's been an interesting year. Some of it has been personal matters I won't dredge out here. Some of it is also work related, and changing how that's gone about in a way that, in the long run, should make things better. All in all, after dealing with various family losses and one elder with dementia, it's been a year of retrenching and getting things sorted. But mostly, it's that, having achieved my first goal - to post consistently, I deliberately backed off, and it definitely shows. There'…