Oh the guilty little pleasure I take from pieces of writing bashing contemporary child rearing… ..smug little chuckle
” Despite all the effort that has been put into shaping these kids, things, somehow, don’t seem quite to have worked out. Who would have thought that so much love in the home would result in such far [...]

The Day the Saucers Came
Neil Gaiman
That day, the saucers landed. Hundreds of them, golden,
Silent, coming down from the sky like great snowflakes,
And the people of Earth stood and stared as they descended,
Waiting, dry-mouthed to find what waited inside for us
And none of us knowing if we would be here tomorrow
But you didn’t notice it because
That [...]

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Loved this:

BBC documentary about big breasts and how they affect the people who have them. (Well this is one problem I don’t have to face….)

Unfortunately the utopian ideals of the liberal thinkers have painfully little to do with everyday reality and their witch-hunt of dissident voices makes it almost impossible to even bring up certain topics, but it seems like the walls of political correctness are finally caving in and the escalating problems of western society can be [...]

I’m presently reading Peter Hitchens’s The Abolition of Liberty. Seldom do I some across a book I can’t put down, but this one has made me an instant fan of Hitchens. His criticism of England could have been written of Hungary as well. He is the voice of the common sense we are taught to [...]

Just found the poem that was cited in the Helen Mirren movie “Elizabeth”:
ON MONSIEUR’S DEPARTURE
by: Queen Elizabeth I (1533-1603)
GRIEVE and dare not show my discontent,
I love and yet am forced to seem to hate,
I do, yet dare not say I ever meant,
I seem stark mute but inwardly [...]

Finally finally! I’ve been waiting for this movie for possible the moment I finished watching the first part. England 16th century, one of my favorite eras and Cate Blanchett… I just absolutely adore her!

More awesome clips here.

……………………….A long long time ago in a galaxy far away………………..
Ok so let’s try to recapture the events, it was Henry, Henry, Edward, Henry…. no Edward, Henry, Richard, or was there another Henry or two. I’ve even seen the play for crying out loud, and I still keep forgetting how the events followed one another. [...]