Oct
13
THE OASIS
Sometimes, when I contemplate the bardo transition from this life to the next, I find myself, for some random reason,
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Digital Renegade
Oct
12
TERRY AND NIC
If I could just borrow the DeLorean DMC-12 from the 1985 movie Back to the Future and go back in
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Oct
12
DIANE
This blog seems increasingly to have turned into an obituary page lately. 2025 has been quite a year for seismic
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Oct
11
A NORTHERN NIGHT
The neighbours and I had agreed to have a Northern Exposure-themed night at the house, with recipes chosen from The
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Oct
09
SOUNDTRACKS FOR LIFE
Having attended the film composer Zbigniew Preisner's 70th birthday concert at the Barbican in London a few weeks
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Oct
05
TEARS OF A CLOWN (A FRAGMENT)
Since Carlo—that matto cavallo—ate all the pages of my diary, mistaking them for apples (no doubt because I
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Oct
05
LATE NIGHT TAKEAWAY
Proustian memories inspired by madeleine cakes are all very well and good, but I think I can do one better.
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Oct
02
VISSI D'ARTE
Royal Opera Director Oliver Mears probably has some sense of how Russian soprano Anna Netrebko feels about calls for her
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Sep
30
RULES FOR RADICALS
"If the ends don't justify the means, what does?" - Saul Alinsky
Mad Max meets Mad
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Sep
27
THE MOON AND YOU
Another project of mine that got consigned to the shelf many years ago was a screenplay I wrote with my
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