More apocalypse, less angst
Kurt Vonnegut, at 84, of course it was bound to come but I find myself slightly ill with melancholy from the news anyways. I have cried more this morning for his death than for some friends who have died recently (which isn’t saying an… Continue Reading “Oh my and good-bye.”
So – some of you will remember an odd posting I made about Basking Sharks that included this drawing an old-codger friend of my Dad’s made to demonstrate the way in which the sharks were killed by Fisheries and Oceans back in the day.… Continue Reading “Elasmobranches of the Pacific”
Thanks to haymarketeer and diane who both steered me towards Murakami in a previous post on literature. I’m reading Kafka on the Shore right now and enjoying it immensely.
The post earlier today was actually inspired by a conversation I had with a co-worker this morning about books (I was in the process of lending her Kazuo Ishiguro’s Never Let Me Go – the melancholy and mysterious tale of three friends sharing a… Continue Reading “My favourite five.”
I don’t really know if I need another project – but since I’m officially going to be taking a break from activism real soon now, perhaps it would be good to put some other odds and ends into my life and this one (if… Continue Reading “Always with the new projects.”