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Month: December 2024

Made Up Celebrations

Posted on 31/12/2024 by Daniel

We still need to bring in the New Year? We still need religious festivals to break up the months and engage our minds about time moving? Is it all about marking the year with points where we can have a change of pace and enjoy something different to the usual days? It is odd for…

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IRC

Posted on 30/12/2024 by Daniel

Internet Relay Chat is still used by many people though as a place to type in real time and get to know people it has been hugely superseded by other platforms. It gave me many memorable conversation ns in one of which a man was chatting about how he and his girlfriend had been having…

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That Was cold

Posted on 29/12/2024 by Daniel

Over the holiday I had to get back from London to Cornwall and the trains were all rescheduled so I had to leave from Euston not Paddington. Like an idiot I did what the railway worked told me to do and got the train to Bristol even though I knew the arrival time of 11pm…

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Too Sensitive?

Posted on 26/12/2024 by Daniel

Printing and editing a magazine about contemporary art is an interesting study when artists deal with the entirety of human experience. The endless friction caused can produce real hurt and the discussions can become angry and very frustrating. My most recent brush was using the image of a known Nazi. This, I was told, would…

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The Old – The New

Posted on 25/12/2024 by Daniel

We now know that the human brain has been the same size for roughly 200,000 years. In a history that we think really got going 10,000 years ago with the extensive use of farming. We will never know the religions that came and went, the ideas that arose, floundered re-emerged or were lost. The art…

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It is quite a thing

Posted on 24/12/2024 by Daniel

when wars begin and as they roll forward, people take sides and do not see the same value of a lifeĀ  taken in the enemy as worth as much as a life on their side. It is almost as if we are all no longer quite human – either in this sentiment or in the…

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People Management

Posted on 23/12/2024 by Daniel

What is it with ego and power plays? from the smallest groups to the largest people think they have such importance they can dictate what all the others have to agree with. You can set a goal you are all supposed to be aiming for and they will compromise it for petty power. Their name…

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When Academics Stoop to Folly

Posted on 22/12/2024 by Daniel

Bonesteel was a tutor in the history of cartoons when a young student decided to complain that the subject matter in his class was offensive. He lost his job. There is an amusing song my Flanders and Swann about a cannibal child who doesn’t want to eat people. The father is appalled and there ensues…

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George Byron

Posted on 21/12/2024 by Daniel

So we’ll go no more a roving’ So we’ll go no more a roving So late into the night, Though the heart be still as loving, And the moon be still as bright. For the sword outwears its sheath, And the soul wears out the breast, And the heart must pause to breathe, And Love…

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Celebrations

Posted on 20/12/2024 by Daniel

As everyone around gets ready for Christmas and Channukah thinking they deserve a break from all the bad and sad news and a little light relief there is no relief fro the planet or the terrible things we have done to the environment. There is no end to the suffering of animals and civilians in…

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