by Didact | Aug 9, 2014 | Uncategorized
I’m off for about 10 days to travel. I’m not telling where I’m going (yet), but suffice to say that this is a trip that I have been wanting to make for quite literally half my life. Pictures, stories, and tales of wine and song to follow when I get...
by Didact | Jul 24, 2014 | Uncategorized
When I was 14, I read two books that changed my thinking and my life forever. The first was a novel, based on real events, called Exodus, by one of the 20th Century’s greatest writers, Leon Uris. It provided a fictionalised, but largely accurate, account of the...
by Didact | Jul 10, 2014 | gym idiots, Uncategorized
Jesus Double Facepalm: That is how badly you FAIL “Lightning war” is quite simply the only way to describe what Germany did to Brazil yesterday. Now normally I could not give a toss about this odd sport named “football”- something that you...
by Didact | Jul 3, 2014 | Uncategorized
The kind that not only allows armed diners into the premises, but arms the waitresses too: How does a Swiss and Wesson grilled cheese for lunch sound? Or a Guac 19 burger for dinner? And would you like to attend a concealed carry class after your...
by Didact | Apr 13, 2014 | Uncategorized
[This post might take its name from one of the greatest and most important death metal albums ever produced, but it has no overarching theme or specific purpose. It’s just a catalog of thoughts and ideas stemming from a recent trip.] The Healing Road I love...
by Didact | Jan 12, 2014 | Uncategorized
In 1998, Neil Peart, the greatest goddamn drummer of all ti- er, I mean, the drummer and lyricist of RUSH, lost his daughter in a freak accident as she was driving to college. Shortly after that, he lost his wife to cancer, though he maintained that she died from a...
by Didact | Jan 9, 2014 | Uncategorized
Look up “irony” in the dictionary, and this is what you’ll see So I landed back in the (formerly) Land of the Free last Saturday morning, after a quite painful and arduous 26-hour journey halfway across the world, jet-lagged out of my mind, to find...
by Didact | Jan 1, 2014 | fat girl jihad, Uncategorized
Charlie Bushmeister had some highly amusing commentary from his recent trip to India: I have been to 50 countries now, and I can say without reservation that India is the absolute worst place for women I have even been. I can think of no place less suitable for a...
by Didact | Dec 25, 2013 | Uncategorized
Can someone please explain the appeal of this idiotic new phenomenon to me? Yes, you saw that right- reindeer antlers and big stupid red nose ON A FREAKIN’ CAR. I’m all in favour of Christmas spirit, but this is going a bit bloody far. I’ve been...
by Didact | Dec 24, 2013 | Uncategorized
I got back last weekend from a week in Calcutta. That particular time of year, around about mid-December, is always considered particularly “auspicious” for weddings (don’t ask me why, I don’t understand pagan festival timings very well),...
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