“Reading: … ” Book of the Year 2011 (Fiction): Joan Slonczewski — The Highest Frontier

Joan Slonczewski — The Highest Frontier

Reading … a 4th anniversary

Another year of books. Not as many as last year; I took a pause for some time, unable to find …

Reading: Joan Slonczewski — The highest Frontier

A new author for me. I heard of Joan Slonczewski for the first time only a couple of weeks ago when …

Reading: Liao Yiwu – God is Red

It was only in July this year, Liao Yiwu paid himself into the hands of smugglers on the border of …

Nein! Nein! Nicht die Wunde ist es.

I heard it slightly wrong. Parsifal, struck with awareness of Amfortas and the wound is physically overwrought. “Sie brennt in …

Reading: Matthew T. Kapstein – The Tibetans

matthew t. kapstein – the tibetans

Reading: Christopher I Beckwith – The Tibetan Empire in Central Asia

christopher i. beckwith – the tibetan empire in central asia

readin: david hinton: chuang tzu – the inner chapters

david hinton: chuang tzu – the inner chapters

reading: ahmed rashid – descent into chaos

ahmed rashid – descent into chaos

greg mortenson – three cups of tea

greg mortenson – three cups of tea

Reading: R.H.C. Davis – A History of Medieval Europe

a history of medieval europe

Reading: Nasrin Alavi – We Are Iran: The Persian Blogs

nasrin alavi – we are iran

Reading: Afghanistan – Louis Dupree

afghanistan – louis dupree

Blog for Choice day

Today marks thirty-five years since Roe vs. Wade. A number of my favourite blogs including Feministing and (en)gender posted on …

Reading: Iain Banks – Whit

iain banks – whit

häxan

Friday teaching improvisation at ADT, and I decide the appropriate soundtrack is sunn0))), Gabrielle is there, and normally I have …

friday atheist re-blogging

Being the day when a carpenter who has fantastically scant evidence for ever having existed in the first place was …

seasons greetings

A Jesuit missionary named Èdouard de Gex remarked there are two kinds of Satanist, one who genuinely believes in the …

faith is a corrosive virus

A couple of days ago I was reading an article in which the manifestations of – especially fundamentalist – religion …

i fornicate for satan

This from the master of doom, Emile Zile, I can’t really add anything except my first thought was Mia Farrow …

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