On New Years Day one of my Aunts died. Or passed away as it is more usually softly called. My relationship with this Aunt was not close. In latter years I would never visit, at most send her and her husband (my mother’s brother) a Christmas Card. We did live hundreds of miles apart but … Continue reading
The WordPress.com stats helper monkeys prepared a 2012 annual report for this blog. Here’s an excerpt: 19,000 people fit into the new Barclays Center to see Jay-Z perform. This blog was viewed about 59,000 times in 2012. If it were a concert at the Barclays Center, it would take about 3 sold-out performances for that … Continue reading
Baby. It’s. You. Baby. It’s You. Baby it’s. You. Baby It’s You – however you want to punctuate this line this is a song of the purest of pure romantic love songs Pure romance. Pure reasonable obsession. Much of pop music is about ‘you’, the otherwise lesser referred second-person of the made up fiction world. … Continue reading
Originally posted on Blog Rest and Play:
My mother said ‘I’m a survivor, I pull together Christmas every year. Something has to last’ she said ‘Once a year let’s have the past’ And then one year to reach up high to hang an angel from the tree became a painful thing ‘Besides she’s lost her…
When I started this blog much of my writing was opinion pieces – some politics but mainly reviews of TV, music, art, fashion and other categories too numerous to mention – I did not know much what to expect but knew enough about how the web and search engines worked that much of the traffic … Continue reading
I have planned to blog about Show Me The Monet for a while. Show Me The Monet is an arts program from the BBC where artists submit their works to a panel of critics with the potential to have their work exhibited and sold at an Art Gallery. You may not have heard of it … Continue reading
