April 2011
75 posts
Lucy, aged 4, singing about flowers.
Lucy, aged 4, reading Green Eggs and Ham to...
“Those heroes that shed their blood and lost their lives… You are now lying...”
– Kemal Ataturk. http://www.awm.gov.au/encyclopedia/ataturk.asp
Carl Sagan talking about climate change in 1980....
“In the Cosmos, there is no refuge from change.”
– Carl Sagan
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Close Encounters: The Dad Factor
Upon watching Steven Spielberg’s ‘Close Encounters of the Third Kind’ again, I was struck by the Dad factor. Roy Neary (Richard Dreyfuss) is an Everyman character, who is faced with things he can’t explain, but nevertheless finds that these things mean something; they’re important. As he becomes more and more obsessed by the visions given him by the...
“Commerce, n. A kind of transaction in which A plunders from B the goods of C,...”
– Ambrose Bierce, The Devil’s Dictionary, 1911
“Who the hell are you people?”
