A clean, minimalist, grid-based theme featuring an alternate dark colour scheme, custom background, and custom header
Nothing to see here
This post has been composed purely to test out the new theme I have employed on this weblog. Expect not to see this post in the future.
Does anyone still follow this?
I’ve migrated to a WordPress blog, but I’ve ended up looking for themes which look just like the one I have on this very same blog.
Internet, are you trying to tell me something?
Happy holidays, everyone.
Electioneering
when the same when the same
flesh and blood flesh and blood
groups up in two groups up in two
opposing opposing
symmetrical symmetrical
lumps lumps
flesh and blood flesh and blood
groups up in two groups up in two
opposing opposing
symmetrical symmetrical
lumps lumps
a valley of darkness
in between
we call it a butt,
bum,
derrière,
posterior,
sorm.
And once every 5 years, we call it politics,
or in an elegant twist on the vernacular,
Elezzjoni Ġenerali.
Happy voting, everyone.
(Don’t forget to flush).
How (Not) To Disappear Completely
Dear Reader,
Contrary to popular belief, I am still alive and trying to kick, and have finally started writing on a rag again, which happens to be Manic! magazine. For those of you who aren’t in possession of the papery type, click here and check out “Losing our Religion?”.
Re: the title of this post, it’s from a Radiohead song, which I happen to love. I actually bought the CD (Kid A) just for that song.
The Internet is Dead
Dear Readers,
After a long period of just thinking about doing it, I am currently trying to redesign the layout for the blog, after which I will resume posting. The thing is that I don’t have as much free time as I used to have last year when I started blogging, and the free time I have I’m using out in the non-virtual world (aka “The Real World”).
So, the issue is, what do the readers want?
Do they want a lot of pictures?
Some weird martian aardvark singing the Maltese national anthem in reverse?
Diagrams from an anatomy textbook?
etc..
Answers via comments please.
Re: The title- does “sex” work better as an attention grabber?
Why I’m Not Blogging
I got a life.
Kidding. I’m just lazy.
Sorry liz.
A Miniature Update
Dear Reader,
I’m in the middle of my exams. Should be reading Wuthering Heights, but I just spent the last 3 hours online. That would’ve been 5 posts at the very least.
A small update- I still am reading books, but I can’t be bothered to write about them, yet.
I really should be updating this thing more often.
But then again, the difference between “should” and “is” is why stuff is rarely done the way it should be, and most of the problems in the world.
Think about it, will you?
And post your replies here.
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The 100 Book Mission™: Book 7
Clowning in Rome; Henri J.M. Nouwen; DLT
“Of the virtuosi we say, ‘How do they do it?’ Of the clowns we say, ‘They are like us.’ The clowns remind us . . . that we share the same human weaknesses.”
A book about the values of “solitude, celibacy, prayer and contemplation”- I must say that these 4 topics scare loads of people off, or at least put them off; myself included.
Mostly it’s because people are afraid of being alone with themselves, of seeing things as they are and of trusting a god they’ve known but never seen. Celibacy then, is another matter, mostly concerning people leading the religious life, to whom this book was addressed.
These activities in turn lead to a certain autonomy which makes Love genuine, coming not out of a need for affection or completion, but rather a generous outward act.
This gives seemingly insignificant activities (those to which Nouwen refers as “clowning”) a value which by far surpasses the actual act.
Not a book for everyone- it’s addressed at people in Christian ministry after all- but what’s inside still does count.
Tut tut tut…
Dear Reader,
My sincerest apologies go to you, faithful disciple of debris ™, who has been deprived of my semi-regular mental meanderings.
About the books.
I read a book called Clowning in Rome; it’s very good, I should’ve mentioned it long ago but haven’t. Work has been getting to me, so I couldn’t really take time off and read.
I also happen to have acquired a motor scooter, which is making reading on the bus a tad impossible.
So at the moment I’m reading nineteen eighty-four, which is sounding incredibly naive and optimistic, in hindsight.
I have also made the move back to a Windows Xp machine after 4 sad months on a 17″ iMac loaded with OS X 10.4. If you ask me, Apple should’ve stuck to fruit.
Happy 1st of April!