vaporizen on Cecil Taylor 1929-2018:
First paragraph aside, this is an insightful tribute to a complex, seldom fully understood creative artist. Thank you for it. I was one of musician...
philip proust on Breaking the Mould?:
"The crisis in democracy isn’t confined to Europe."
It might be more accurate to speak of a crisis in liberal democracy. Democracy without its libe...
jssiii on Is sumer icumen in?:
Another collapsing of Spring into Summer comes in the Padstow 'Obby 'Oss Song, sung on 1 May:
Unite and unite and let us all unite
For Summer is a...
norman rimmell on A Jar, a Blouse, a Letter:
As a frequent visitor to friends in Leningrad/St.Petersburg since 1957 I have no doubt I was of some interest to both the KGB, and our security servic...
Martin Tharp on A Jar, a Blouse, a Letter:
In my professional life, I work extensively with the paper unconscious, the perverted grapho-voyeur-mania, of one European Communist secret police for...
