• On Science-Fiction

    I can picture in my mind a world without war, a world without hate. And I can picture us attacking that world, because they'd never expect it.

    I don't think I'm alone when I say I'd like to see more and more planets fall under the ruthless domination of our solar system.

    - Jack Handey, "Deep Thoughts"
  • In education as elsewhere, the broad primrose path leads to a nasty place.

    - A. N. Whitehead
  • A great war leaves the country with three armies: an army of cripples, an army of mourners, and an army of thieves.
  • English is a language that lurks in dark alleys, beats up other languages and rifles through their pockets for spare vocabulary.
  • True words are not beautiful,
    Beautiful words are not true.
  • Bishop of Bath and Wells: You fiend! Never have I encountered such corrupt and foul-minded perversity… Have you ever considered a career in the church? Blackadder: Yes, but I couldn't get used to the underwear.

    Blackadder the Second
  • What is written without effort is in general read without pleasure.

    - Samuel Johnson

  • Terry Pratchett

    That seems to point up a significant difference between Europeans and Americans. A European says: "I can't understand this, what's wrong with me?" An American says: "I can't understand this, what's wrong with him?"

    "It's still a lie. Like the lie about masks."
    "What lie about masks?"
    "The way people say they hide faces."
    "They do hide faces."
    "Only the one on the outside."

    Maskerade

  • Balzac a dit:

    Mes avis sur vos relations avec les femmes sont aussi dans ce mot de chevalerie: Les servir toutes, n'en aimer qu'une.

    Le véritable amour est éternel, infini, toujours semblable à lui-même; il est égal et pur, sans démonstrations violentes; il se voit en cheveux blancs, toujours jeune de cœur.

Holding the Man & La Camera

Posted on 2 May, 2008 by Jon Whyte

This was a few weekends ago but I think I should put this up before I forget what happened. Bad memory – that comes with age. Ha ha…-____-
Holding the Man
The play is adapted from the book of the same name by Timothy Conigrave.
Tim and John met in high school in the mid-1970s. Tim was [...]

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Babka Bakery Cafe & Shag

Posted on 2 May, 2008 by Jon Whyte

Jo, J and I took a little trip to Brunswick St. today in our lunch break. It was mainly to visit J’s news agency, deliver some food and walk off the onerous lunch I had somehow managed to fit inside of me.
Shops of note:
Shag
I love shops arranged like these; merchandise everywhere, hangars chock-full of clothes, [...]

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