Nae Hauf-Way Hoose

I'll ha'e nae hauf-way hoose, but aye be whaur / Extremes meet - it's the only way I ken / To dodge the curst conceit o' bein' richt / That damns the vast majority o' men.

Monday, 21 June 2010

Anthems for Nowhere

i.m. 29.5.37 – 24.6.89 Like the stream, time, gently, little by little, goes by Two funerals from twenty-one years ago, both consumed then a...

Tuesday, 15 June 2010

Ghost in the Shell

Matthew Stoddard ’s essay on Ghost in the Shell , cognitive mapping and the ‘desire for communism’ is well worth reading. It’s very clever a...

Monday, 7 June 2010

Defiance

You may fasten my chains Deprive me of my books and tobacco You may fill my mouth with earth Poetry will feed my heart, like blood It is sal...

Monday, 31 May 2010

North Wind in the West

I sometimes think it’d make a great board game, a sort of extended Scrabble for politicos. Everyone gets a tray of words, say: Enigmatic, is...

Tuesday, 18 May 2010

De-Coding Geass

What to make of Code Geass ? Easiest perhaps to start with what’s unlikely to be disputed: Code Geass, Lelouch of the Rebellion (コードギアス反逆のル...

Tuesday, 11 May 2010

One-Dimensional Woman

Nina Power admits that One-Dimensional Woman is “not a cheerful book”, but the experience of reading over the weekend was enormously cheer...

Monday, 3 May 2010

May Day in Tokyo

Some photos from our Tokyo correspondent . See also mrzine 's piece on the Zenroren May Day in Yoyogi Park. Shorten working hours - Don...

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