Let this, then, be stated incidentally, as a matter of record that is common knowledge. 33 But the wiser of the priests call not only the Nile Osiris and the sea Typhon, but they simply give the name of Osiris to the whole source and faculty creative of moisture,181 believing this to be the cause of...

Ups and fucking downs. I've had worse collections of days. I've had better ones, too, but this particular set needs to be gotten down somewhere and this is as good a place as any. At this point, I don't remember......

Maybe it's just me, but this seems like a classic example of technology run amok. Making things we don't need, filling needs we don't have. Or that no reasonable person should have, anyway. Now, from the Schaeffler Industrial Group, we......

A technologically simulated "second coming" and the reemmrgence of new "MONTAUK" type projects that have the ability to take up a whole bunch of people as in a "rapture" type of situation and whisk the whole bunch into never-never land. Ironically, portions of the holog...

Tonight, as I was making lunches for my kids, I went to give Max a pickle. Every time I reached into the jar, I came up with pickle hugeness. Like being in a pickle porn film or something. Enormo the......

The end of the world is nigh, perhaps. The temples of doom, a recent Guardian piece by Rory Carroll draws parallels between the 'population explosion, ecological disaster and weak leadership' that did for Mayan civilisation and the apparent limits being approached by today's global culture, six cent...

No, it's not that I have nothing to write about.Just after the elections, of course, and then with my birthday, you would have thought that my output would increase. This has not been so, and that is because I am......

A high point of the middle weekend was the performance of The Low Jinks, the Grove's elaborate musical-comedy show. Over the years the Jinks has become the leading entertainment at the encampment, surpassing the mannered and ponderous Grove Play, which is performed the next weekend. The Jinks is vig...

Before you ask: Yes, I am thinking of re-titling this blog "Complaints."  Or perhaps "The Complainiac."  "WhineBlog."  "Whingebag."  I haven't really decided.  Thoughts? A couple of weeks ago, at the beginning of July, I saw the "...

I have encountered this sentiment in one form or another since 2003.  This idea that, if you are unhappy, it might just be because you are causing yourself to be unhappy by failing to "count your blessings," or think on nice and wonderful things, or because you're just not looking at ...