Jun 12, 20223 minKilling in the Name!Who’d have thought that music could be political? Or that musicians might have political views? Let’s take the song Killing in the Name...
Apr 17, 20224 minRelativity!M. C. Escher has always been one of my favourite artists. From the moment I first saw his work (I think it might have been Waterfall), I...
Apr 3, 20224 minThe Wall!#TIL that the iconic image of the album cover for the famous album The Wall was not actually the original cover. In fact, the text “Pink...
Mar 27, 20224 minAll in this Together!When I write, I sometimes have a topic in mind, and look for an interesting way to introduce it. This time, I ended up going down an...
Feb 6, 20226 minLingua Franca!Recently, I was listening to an old episode of The Skeptics Guide to the Universe, (actually, episode 803, dated 28-Nov-2020), in which...
Jan 2, 20224 minThe Internet is on fire!I found the image above when searching for a good image of fire, and it seemed just about perfect on multiple levels. Buster Keaton...
Dec 12, 20214 minThe Haywain!In the late 1980’s I liked to collect “taglines” to include in my interactions with people. While these included many “pithy” statements...
Oct 3, 20213 minDon't Panic!One of the key catch-phrases of the classic “Hitchhiker’s Guide to the Galaxy” (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Hitchhiker%27s_Guide_to...
Sep 26, 20215 minSound and Fury!The phrase “full of sound sound and fury, signifying nothing” is part of one of the most famous soliloquies in the English language. It...
Sep 19, 20216 minRisk!Risk (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Risk_%28game%29) is one of those games that seems to endure. It’s a simple game, which is probably...