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I would have continued to be unaware of it but for Christine Clear and Rosemarie Rowley. Rosemarie sent me an email wondering if my website had moved. In Christine’s case, [...]

Some years ago I wrote a poem called Starling. It was based on my experience of seeing them flock in Champagne. Of course I read a lot about them, but somehow because I had seen them flock in October, I presumed they were grouping to go south. Not necessarily so, it seems. In fact, depending [...]

Poet Michael O’Dea has a wonderful Goya video on his blog. Worth checking out. I hadn’t seen some of them before and I’m a big Goya fan.
I hadn’t known Michael had a blog, but he sent me news of a recent publication for Irish Writers Online, ie
a bilingual, Galician/English chapbook, Felos ainda serra, which [...]

As an amputee myself, I thought I’d highlight this beautiful video of dancer and performance artist Lisa Buffano, who is a bilateral below knee and finger amputee. With the new YouTube interface you can easily see the other clips from her performance.
The human spirit knows no bounds, I’m delighted to once again affirm.
Bufano: [...]

Extraordinary video by Andy Huang, who’s a senior Fine Arts major and Animation minor at the University of Southern California in Los Angeles.
Doll’s Face is reminiscent of Björk’s All is Full of Love video, another amazing work, but is nevertheless distinctive and original.

Australian filmmaker John Safran is so fed up with Mormons ringing his doorbell early in the morning that he flies to Salt Lake City Utah and tries to convert Mormons to atheism.
Needless to say, the locals were not pleased. (short video)