What really happened to Diana Spencer?
Diana Spencer is, to my mind, a great enigma. A young girl thrown in at the deepest of deep ends and expected to swim amongst a school of sharks. She…
Clearly Quite Absurd
Clearly Quite Absurd is a very quiet piece from the Deep Purple album Rapture of the Deep. Its concept is simple. Life would be much simpler if we could clear…
Is There Already a Cure For Coronavirus?
There is a lot of doom and gloom being pedalled by most mainstream media outlets about the effects of coronavirus and how long this pandemic may last. A coronavirus cure…
Maybe we need a little March Madness
So, this is March madness. Empty supermarket aisles, a toilet paper shortage, politicians slashing regulations and pumping money into the economy like crazy, CEOS resigning en masse, travel basically ceasing,…
Salvation
Sometimes potential life partners pass each other by with never a backward glance. Time and circumstances don’t create the necessary spark. Other times, the stars align and everything falls into…
Shameful, Pathetic & Sad Assange Rally
I’m staring up incredulously at an earnest young man telling me and the scattered Assange rally “crowd” that the young people of Australia are uniting behind Assange and that revolution…
Things I never said or did
It’s been almost thirty five years to the day since you left us. Eighteen or so months more since a civil word passed between you and I and the time…
When you come at the King
You’d best not miss. It’s a classic line that I’d attributed to Shakespeare but actually comes from the classic TV series The Wire. The line has been running through my…
How to solve a problem like Tulsi Gabbard
Tulsi Gabbard was back in the news today. She has sufficient guts to take on the Clinton machine. She is suing Hilary Clinton for $50 million for stating that she…
Just For the Fun of it
Around the time of the second Iraq War, I started jamming on a Sunday afternoon with a local Ararat musician, Darren Sherwell. It started out as a bit of fun.…