Well I am a bit of a tree nerd and my latest fascination is with gymnosperms, all kinds, but trees especially. I see them as an interesting kind of ancient artefact of the Mesozoic, and the times before there were really any leafy or flowery trees. They have some funny characteristics, like their odd cones … Read more
I have been living in retrospective nostalgia for the life n times of George Orwell this last week, when I read Homage to Catalonia, and discovered the very good BBC Arena documentary which interviews dozens of interesting and important characters from his life, who were still alive at the time (1983 but also with snippets … Read more
I was hard on atheists here a few posts ago but hanging out in the ‘reformed christianity‘ subreddits recently, actually i am more scared of those folks. Give me atheists any day. Give me Buddhists (who are atheists, originally). Give me tantra. Anything but reformed christians lol. Although, I do think the Quakers are ok. … Read more
My love of david Berman continues, as i sift through the riches of his old blog, menthol mountains and his reddit history [2026 update: somehow his account pylonshadow has been banned posthumously which is a great shame! as it was full of wit and thoughtfulness.. maybe one of his old enemies he used to troll … Read more
I hang out on debateanatheist on reddit, trying to be satisfied, but something’s just missing y’know? i can’t tell when i lost the ability to be satisfied by logic. Now i need some crazy to feel like life has a meaning. I’m hooked on the mystery like a drug. Sure i love physics, but even … Read more
I really should be putting my blogs on substack or medium or one of those other places. but i’m happy loafing here in my homebrew website, hiding away from the world. I’m writing this having loaded up an old computer that i haven’t really used much since about August 2020.. i see my documents folder … Read more
Hello friends. Have been through what feels like another round of frying-pan-fire, with cars breaking unexpectedly (quick pushing onto median strips at lights with other cars waiting), songs going out into the world without much fanfare, money on the mind, and as usual the riot menagerie of dogs, kids, and chickens, with 17 new babies … Read more
Feeling a bit light this evening so i think i can talk about it.. the slow pull. Maybe it is just the advancing years, the lengthening shadows. The dough, folded and folded again, to make a millefeuille. The complexifying of every little thing and yet — an increasing vagueness, a thinning out, a diminishing opacity. … Read more
In around 2009 I started a twitter account to get what seemed a direct line to gossip coming out of parliament house. In those days there didn’t seem to be any trolls. But it quickly got sordid. Soon i had my first exposure to what is really a kind of psychological warfare using images and … Read more
I’ve recently discovered I’m living near to a Buddhist temple that seems to have its main links going towards the Burmese Buddhist tradition, with an enormous golden Buddha statue at its heart. It has a beautiful smaller shrine around the back with a marble Buddha surrounded by a small collection of interesting statues in different … Read more
I just put out some more music – the first EP “To Eternity” is left overs from my recent release “The Present Race” , demo quality material really, but i like it. The last two songs came about after my 2022 India trip, the first two are from earlier on when i was still going … Read more