A gathering of coincidence
George Carlin gives a warning Is coincidence a means of drawing our attention to significant causes? As Bob Dylan put it: The highway is for gamblers, Better use your sense; … Continue reading
Tiger, house, love: homo garrulus
I’ve always been interested in words. I think them an extraordinary phenomenon. They’re sounds produced by the larynx given meaning by the brain. They’re abstractions that somehow result in actions. … Continue reading
The writing on the wall
Anarchy, art, celebrity, AIDS: for Keith Haring it was full circle “Entropy rules, OK”, read the crumbling brick wall in Glebe, the message reinforced by a small ‘y’ on a … Continue reading
Leonardo’s smile
Leonardo’s smile, reminiscent of Gautama’s It’s interesting to see, when you go even slightly beneath the surface and investigate any subject, how uncertain most of our knowledge is. Experts dispute, … Continue reading
Exploring Leonardo
St John. Androgynous, not really: but with the curly hair all the holy figures of Leonardo seem to have I’ve always been a bit intimidated by Leonardo from the town … Continue reading
Harappa
In an area in Pakistan and north western India, just east of the modern borders of Iran and Afghanistan and bounded to the north and east by two mountain ranges … Continue reading
The final defense
On the evening of 30 October 1938, the night before Halloween, Orson Welles and his Mercury Theatre broadcast a version of HG Wells’ War of the Worlds. Gallup Polls taken … Continue reading
