some random thoughts on coffee…
some random thoughts on coffee… My interest is more (only) as a consumer, but coming from Australia, the speciality coffee thing seems to have hit early with the…
some random thoughts on coffee… My interest is more (only) as a consumer, but coming from Australia, the speciality coffee thing seems to have hit early with the…
Since this weblog will be 20 years old in August, some of it will be selectively recycled into pulp, even as much of it was already pulp at…
Dow chimicals… grrrr. but there is a backstory to this despicable substance, I cannot yet see a full version of Pantelis Vougaris’ film With Heart and Soul (- yet,…
Remembering serving on this film festival doco jury. A great experience: https://timesofindia.indiatimes.com/city/kolkata/docu-on-kol-filmmakers-karbala-journey-wins-award/articleshow/87875803.cms …
‘There are not many mistakes as significant as the conception that class consciousness is a matter of morality’ (Reich [1935] 1971: 24) < the one who must steal…
Sure, rescuing Matt Damon from Mars is easier than fixing Earth, but planetary survival is imperative and cannot be left to NASA’s zero-gravity speculative research project or the…
The Entanglement If the 18th century gave us the Enlightenment, which was a mixed blessing, as they say, what are we to make of what the 21st century…
The Soviet documentary maker Roman Karmen at Điện Biên Phủ in 1954 From this English language Doco: His film on Vietnam here:
30 Minute Methods at #TDTU @XH&NV has started up again – the next one is on Tuesday 14th Jan at 4pm Vietnam time – zoom link available. Its…
CITU – 1988 West Bengal
After an amazing match… in which Xuan Son bent his leg way out of shape, and that final rolling goal… I’d watched the second half of the game…
Article numbers and rejections are ‘up’. I tried to explain what I see as the current trend in journal-editor-land and wrote this to reassure a colleague that ‘its…
In a reference within Trần Gia Thảo Vy’s essay on Malinowski I notice that old Bronio’s volume “The Sexual Life of Savages” (on kinship systems and beliefs, so…
I’d be hard-pressed to explain all the reasons why this text is worth your time. And indeed it might be a lot of time, since the reading of…
Note to self to transpose my ppt slides on Richard Burton into a text since he is problematic enough to take a place alongside The Victorians (Tylor, Spencer,…
Vale Michael Leunig To honour Leunig’s art, you could do worse than to read The Curly Pyjama Letters: https://cdn2.reader.cx/?source=cdb57604ddccccabed07785d0e0e9…
“[45] In India there are wild asses as large as horses, or even larger. Their body is white, their head dark red, their eyes bluish, and they have a…
Epicurus and good coffee. Notes are a habititual mode of reading to help me push my thoughts through the pages, but its the pages that are the pleasure.…
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The power of documentary to inspire action and agitate for radical change has developed alongside social struggles and mass movements for over a century. This article outlines the…
Thinking of returning to this problem of time – how everything has got more urgent, but nothing is moving at all – hyper-stagnation. From the reviews of Bad…
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Victor Alneng so appreciated the interview question style he read in ‘The Rumour of Calcutta’ he made me a t-shirt. From Vietnam, it has now returned home.
is 50,000 enough in Palestine? 60,000+ in Sudan? 73,000 in Russia-Ukraine? 300k+ in Syria? 6 mill in Congo? When does it stop? Let’s celebrate with some games, like…