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BywardThe last ever Space Shuttle, the Atlantis, touched down yesterday marking the end of the 30 year old NASA project. My initial thought was, ‘Well, that’s another giant leap backward for Mankind’ and felt vaguely depressed by direction humanity has decided to return to – inward looking, money-obsessed, war-mongering, looking after our own, seeing only the short term,…
It’s freezing! (Damn airconditioning.)
BywardDear reader, In case you are wondering why I haven’t replied to your messages, answered your calls,let the milk pile up, and generally not write much recently, it is because I am in Thailand. I was worried about letting you know this too much in advance because of the resentment this seemed to cause in…
Pop Life: Art in a Material World at Tate Modern
BywardThis was a great exhibition. It is essentially about artists who mixed fame and the desire for fame and money with their art. These artists sought out as much publicity as they could and said ‘Balls! I love publicity and money’ to all the purists and critics who claimed they were selling out. The first…
Be afraid! Please…
BywardI was wrong I’ll admit it. See how damned magnanimous I can be? Last year I wrote about how swine flu was being blown out of proportion by the media and compared it to the SARS, birdflu, and zombie outbreaks that were supposed to have happened in previous years. I followed this up with another…
Toast of London
BywardI haven’t lived in the UK for a while now and somehow missed the entirety of the brilliant Toast of London. I accidentally came across it when picking an audio-book and it was recommended to me after having listened to Nomad by Alan Partridge. It was a good recommendation – if you like one, you…