nourishing obscurity

Karl: Now, about that empty airport you’re going to have, the bankrupt airlines, the lack of taxes to pay your salaries as a consequence, and what South Florida, along with the Orlando area, will think of it when there are no tourists spending their dollars there since they will simply refuse to submit by refusing [...]

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Here’s a nice wee thing by Papa Haydn:

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In one of the Perry Mason stories, the coroner says to both sides that he doesn’t want to get bogged down in tactics or slanging matches but wants to get straight to the facts and then “move right along”.  Both sides make noises that they agree with him wholeheartedly, as long as the other side [...]

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From the mystery lady, JJ: We’ve gone through joy and crisis Together, hand in hand, And now we rest from wandering Above the silent land.

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A flower that looks like a parrot and grows in Thailand and is a protected species and it is forbidden to export them. La Flor Pajaro – esta es una flor de Thailandia. Tambien es una de las especies protegidas y no es permitido exportarla.

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The time has come, the Walrus said, to switch on, you’ll perceive, moderation at 10 p.m., until the following eve. Why it’s necessary, stout-hearted friends, I scarcely dare to breathe, but trust me that it’s needed, yea, for one day, by your leave.

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Patrick Harris is one of those commenters who, despite interesting aspects to his internet connection, which doesn’t seem to like youtube, drops in and leaves the sorts of comments which I consider define this blog. There’s not a huge number of regular commenters here and non-blogging ones are even rarer but those that there are [...]

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Obviously we want more and more women on bicycles because it’s a nice thing to see but there has just been a case of a woman in Melbourne whom an abductor tried to drag into a car but she fought him off, with the aid of her bike. In London, yet another female cyclist has [...]

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The French are mightily impressed [loved the start of this]: Je l ai déjà entendu et regardé des dizaines de fois et j ai toujours la chair de poule comme à la première fois! The English are a little less impressed:

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I had a dream, not a very good dream … well, a nightmare actually. In this dream, there were families establishing themselves, in ancient times, on a green hill and valley and one of those families seemed to produce taller, stronger, more battle-hardened and less principled men who rightfully, in the eyes of the others, [...]

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Firstly, the Albion Alliance has now become an aggregator for all things EU, free of commentary. If it’s printed about the EU, it appears at AA. As such, even though the AA gets scant attention from the general web public these days, it is used as a first source by many inside the game. If [...]

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Whenever you read something, it really does depend who wrote it.  Take this for example: The secretive, rough boys’ clubs Male bonding relies on shared transgressions, writes Germaine Greer. Those last two words mean, of course, that the article is to be dismissed out of hand.  Or this: Christina Patterson: Just what is the Army [...]

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Now be honest – which would you prefer to read about in Reuters – the one on the left or the one on the right? This is a deeply cynical blog, relying on one simple process – research – the filtering out of extraneous material and coming up with patterns – patterns of behaviour, patterns [...]

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Arvo Pärt: Tabula Rasa Gidon Kremer – violin Tatjana Grindenko – violin Alfred Schnittke – prepared piano Lithuanian Chamber Orchestra – conductor Saulus Sondeckis “I have discovered that it is enough when a single note is beautifully played. This one note, or a silent beat, or a moment of silence, comforts me. I work with [...]

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