Avast me hearties etc… would you believe that September 19th is ‘Talk Like Pirate Day’?? No, I’ve never heard of it either but it seems to be an annual event… as yearly things tend to be. In fact it’s been going since 1995. Weird eh?? As far as I can work out, it seems to … More And now for something completely different!
Literally on a theme, I’ve gone from virtually one extreme to the other in what music I’m listening to. Having recovered from the effects of Elgar’s works I remembered that last week I’d found a site holding MP3’s of all the Beatles’s early LP’s and downloaded the lot. So to cheer myself up I loaded … More On a theme…
This morning on the way to drop the kids at school Elgar’s Enigma Variations came on, specifically the ‘variation’ played on the radio was ‘Nimrod’ . The conductor this time was Colin Davies and a commendable job was done by all concerned. What struck me though was that part of the way through I realised … More Variations on Enigma.
On the basis of a ‘leaked’ report in Indonesia it looks more and more certain that the death sentences imposed on some of the ‘Bali Nine’ drug smugglers, *will* be carried out. The report indicates that most of the legal arguments put forward in an effort to have the sentences of heroin couriers Matthew Norman, … More Bali Nine – deaths getting closer.
Stephen King has written a review of the JKR Harry Potter phenomenon which I found quite interesting. You can read it here. Not going to pass on details, but he seems quite pleased with the books and the way they were written… can’t argue with that can you? 🙂 By the way, on the same … More Stephen King reviews Harry Potter
The subject line sounds like the start of a kids essay, but I’m running out of ‘original’ titles. Maybe someone ought to write some ‘Random subject creator’ software? Anyway, what did we do? Nothing much really… just another one of those sit around bored stiff type periods. It all started much as usual. I was … More My weekend.
I was just reading a story at news.com about a caretaker for a property owned by ‘Mission: Impossible’ star Ving Rhames. According to the story Rhames had several dogs protecting the property… some were Bull Mastiffs and and at least one was an English Bulldog. The report suggests the dogs were running loose in the … More Fancy a fight?
Wouldn’t it be nice to be recognised as the next singing sensation? I could be you know… I’m half way there already. When people hear me sing I create a sensation… well they scream a lot anyway. And women have always fallen at my feet… ok they faint at the sight of me but that’s … More The singing sensation!
Lucky Sydney! We’ve just been given our own party gear… or something. For a little while now loudspeakers have been appearing on the streets which of course are there to play stirring music… or maybe to relay pop concerts to the masses yes? Nope. What we now have adorning the streets of Sydney is a … More Big Brother on the way.
Reports are emerging about a film to made chronicling the Japanese atrocities at Nanking. The film Purple Mountain will present the ‘incident’ as seen through the eyes of a mother and daughter. This I’m sorry to say is one war crime that should *not* be made into a ‘popular’ film. The atrocities carried out on … More Rape of Nanking to be a film
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