La Recherche Du Temps Perdu
So this is how imaginings of alien abductions take place. I entered the shower this morning at my usual time (noted because I checked the time as I was switching off the phone alarm)....
So this is how imaginings of alien abductions take place. I entered the shower this morning at my usual time (noted because I checked the time as I was switching off the phone alarm)....
Here’s a puzzler. If there’s a Cainophobia/Cenophobia/Centophobia/Cainotophobia (a pathological fear of new things, as ritualised in the DSM) using a more proper Greek root+tail than the Latin-Greek compound neophobia, why is there no matching...
A top member of Al Qaeda in American custody was identified as a likely fabricator months before the Bush administration began to use his statements as the foundation for its claims that Iraq trained...
So I’m walking along the street yesterday, and what do I see taking up a whole display window but a single book, spotlighted: Bono: In Conversation with Michka Assayas… with a foreword by Bono....
The Sweeney Todd opera/musical has finally opened. Me and Lisa saw this a few weeks ago. It’s great. Loud, crass, and with a high body count. Rips off Nosferatu for the entrance of Sweeney...
I was looking at some old Hallowe’en posts on this blog and I found that the 2001 site linked for the Dancing Skeletons had disappeared. But on the Internet, nothing stays lost forever…
One of the greatest learning experiences of my childhood was watching “Monkey” (Saiyki). Because of the bad dubbing and incomprehensible Buddhist allusions, I had very little idea of what the fuck was going on...
Three of Iraq’s most powerful Shiite Muslim religious parties on Thursday formed a reshuffled alliance to field a slate in December’s legislative elections, raising the prospect that balloting will once more break along ethnic...
Documents obtained by CNN reveal the United States knew about, and even condoned, embargo-breaking oil sales by Saddam Hussein’s regime, and did so to shore up alliances with Iraq’s neighbors … Estimates of how...
THE United Nations withheld some of the most damaging allegations against Syria in its report on the murder of Rafik Hariri, the former Lebanese Prime Minister … The names of the brother of Bashar...