Hypothetically Existent

Existential angst in science occurs more often
than scientists admit actually happens. 

 

It Was Forty Years Ago Today

That I was at this festival, for the second time.
Being there proved to me how much getting out
of Gainsborough, the place I was raised,
 was much easier than getting Gainsborough out of my head.
It was not like the 1960's, where if you could remember 
being there then it was a false memory. I remember the event,
the drugs, the music, the bootlegs, the Grateful dead T shirts
the barely alive sense of being there, because being alive 
meant feeling tense, and for three days I felt no tension.    

 

Consistency Inc

I won't be seeing 'the ABBAtars',
the computerised version of ABBA,
approved by the band themselves,
if they appear anywhere near me,
they don't need my admiration.

Though I shall respect how the project(ion)
has raised the profile of the band
whilst leaving them to their privacy.

But on my own I shall wonder,
how an intelligent computer
would analyse this spectacle?
From one machine to another
I can only imagine the joy
in the infinite consistency
each saw mirrored in the other.  

More Or Less (1)

It is less that
'brevity is the soul of wit'
and more that, online at least,
brevity is the soul of engagement. 

Seriously, Don't Stop Laughing

Whether Kierkegaard also cried tears
for what the world should have been
remains open to debate....

 

Irony vs Nuance

American always understood irony,
it goes with accepting manifest destiny
with all the slavery and displacement
of the native tribes that followed
from that implacable self belief.

What Americans find harder to embrace
is all the nuance and detail in their history.... 

The Next To Go ?

According to media reports there are now less
than 20 known wild examples of this species,
the vaquita porpoise, with an unknown number.
  in captivity, who presumably don't breed
as easily there as they once did
in their natural habitat.
 There is an online campaign
to save them from the illegal gill nets
they so easily get caught in.
Find the campaign here.
By supporting this campaign
You may well save other species too.