Stuck in draft
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Year 2005
Mercury Music
Reading time: < 1 min Yay! Managed to catch the award show for the Mercury Music Prize this year and it wasn’t half bad. Firstly I’m SOOOOOO glad that Antony & the Johnsons won it as it is easily the most original album I’ve heard for a long time (well since the middle of August at least) and I’m equally…
Start Over
Reading time: < 1 min Right, where were we? Ohh yes, the aftermath of Hurricane Katrina is still reverberating and is proving surprisingly long in the tooth. Bombarded by images both from the media and from “real people” via internet, we watch and absorb and wonder if we are the only ones who can see the political spinmeisters hard at…
Leaving Home
Reading time: < 1 min Leaving Home by Garrison Keillor It has been a quiet week in Lake Wobegon. So starts each chapter of this wonderful collection of stories, and the essence of the collection is fully contained in that one simple sentence as it is an entire book of quiet happenings and everyday occurances. The stories are all set…
Weekender
Reading time: < 1 min It was my Mum’s birthday on Saturday and thankfully it was a lovely day so the 20-odd people that turned up at the house could sit outside and enjoy the weather almost as much as each other’s company… or more… you can never tell. We went to the Ubiquitous Chip for dinner, recommended, and after…
Katrina
Reading time: 3 mins It’s awful, watching the events unfold, but it’s twice as bad watching humanity descend to the level it has in the past few days. The devastation Katrina has delivered is beyond anything I can properly imagine as, thankfully, I’ve never been near a hurricane of any magnitude or pretty much any kind of natural disaster…