Natural splendour, real musics, wines, wordpower
This is #1 in a temporary series of not many episodes!
Utterly underwhelming as Australian vote-seekers’ performances have been, a few observers of “Scomo”, “Albo”, “Clive” et al – and of us, their target – have delivered choice, pithy observations…
We have inertia because we have arrived at the era of personal greed and the major parties feel obliged to pander to that greed.
One Comment
Jon Kudelka’s cartoon in The Saturday Paper of 16 April 2022 is very funny. (I think)
Comments closedCombine Putin’s utter lack of scruples/decency/humanity with Russia’s overwhelming military superiority, and the result of the invasion of Ukraine is almost inevitable: Russia “wins”.
However, ultimately, Russia loses; almost as inevitable as its initial “success” is Russia’s eventual failure – an inability to rule Ukraine, the collapse of Russia’s economy, and a decline in the “greatness” of Russia as a “world” power.
This post links to two of the better articles that seek to explain the nature of Putin’s miscalculation, and how “success” can be just another word for failure.
Comments closed
This post’s headline is the name of an excellent, albeit US-centric & Western “pop”-centric, article by Ted Gioia.
As he notes:
The song catalogs in most demand are by musicians who are in their 70s or 80s (Bob Dylan, Paul Simon, Bruce Springsteen) or already dead (David Bowie, James Brown).
This post’s photo is a reminder that in 2022 the “Music Biz” also resolutely ignores much of the world’s remarkable “old” music…
Comments closed
“I think you’ll be amused by its impertinence”.
Comments closed
Hope is the thing with feathers
That perches in the soul,
And sings the tune without the words,
And never stops at all…
So begins a justly celebrated poem by Emily Dickinson.
In this post “hope” is viewed through photographic, musical and poetic “lenses”.
Comments closed
…with a musical bonus, 100% free of irony…and a suitably ironic “salute” to Australia’s most prominent “bad Santa”
Merry whatever to everyone!
Comments closed..from Scotland, with a connection to Margaret Atwood.
Even rocks melt in the sun
Comments closed
How did Australia come to adopt such an unusual, infantile, and palpably unfair approach to inherited wealth?
How can Australian taxpayers/non-payers – and Australia’s remarkably craven/spineless governments – be persuaded to change it?
Peter Browne attempts to answer those questions in his essay, Syd Negus, the forgotten tax-slayer.
Comments closedSouthwest Western Australia’s flowering, feathered and furry members of the first two categories need each other, vitally.
Could their survival prospects have anything to do with the third category?
Comments closed
