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Singin’ in the Rain

Though I grew up in the eighties and nineties and was into New Wave music and other contemporary trends as other teenagers then, I also started to cultivate more vintage … Continue reading

11 July, 2007 · 11 Comments

Persian words in English

Following on from Arabic Words in English, I thought I’d post a similar select listing of Persian loanwords in English. Ever interested in etymology, I note that a few of … Continue reading

2 June, 2007 · Leave a comment

Great comedy from the ‘Axis of Evil’

As shown in the Land of the Great Satan ;) Very funny vignettes. Dean Obeidallah (1 min) Aron Kader (1:20) More ….

7 May, 2007 · Leave a comment

The Real Iran

With thanks to No War South Australia for producing, and to Forever Under Construction for forwarding this. I first linked to this file of globally renowned figures with an Iranian … Continue reading

4 May, 2007 · Leave a comment

Timely Reminders

"Those who crusade, not for God in themselves, but against the devil in others, never succeed in making the world better, but leave it either as it was, or sometimes perceptibly worse than what it was, before the crusade began. By thinking primarily of evil we tend, however excellent our intentions, to create occasions for evil to manifest itself."
-- Aldous Huxley

"The only war that matters is the war against the imagination. All others are subsumed by it."
-- Diane DiPrima, "Rant", from Pieces of a Song.

"It is difficult
to get the news from poems
yet men die miserably every day
for lack
of what is found there"
-- William Carlos Williams, "Asphodel, That Greeny Flower"


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