Live while you are alive
Jonny Greenwood is Radiohead’s keyboardist. When he joined the band in his teens, he had no idea how to play the instrument. The previous player had been fired for playing too loudly. “So when I got a chance to play with the group,”he said, “the first thing I did was to turn my keyboard off …
“If you invite a bear to dance, it’s not you who decides when the dance is over. It is the bear”. (Russian proverb cited in the New York Times) My comment: Don’t trust Russia
“Something we may learn from this research (about dying. Ed.) is that, although our loved ones have their eyes closed and are ready to leave us to rest, their brains may be replaying some of the nicest moments they experienced in their lives.” Dr Ajmal Zemmar, a neurosurgeon at the University of Louisville, and his …
Staring ‘is sexual harassment’. London commuters are being warned that staring is sexual harassment. Posters have started appearing in stations across the capital as part of a Transport for London campaign against “common examples of sexual harassment” – including catcalling, exposing, pressing, cyber-flashing and touching. Also on the list is “staring”, with one poster reminding …
To my loyal readers: It seems that I have chattered on a bit too much. The system tells me I have exceeded my allotted space (total news to me). So until I can get some brilliant techie to tell me what I can do about it I am silenced, speechless, but only temporarily, I hope. …
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