The Pazzi’s Conspiracy: a summary
On April 26, 1478 in the cathedral of Florence during the mass, the Pazzi family and their cronies attacked Lorenzo and Giuliano de Medici. Lorenzo was wounded but Giuliano was killed. It had been a […]
May 2012
Movie Review: ‘Up in the air’
This is a movie that belongs with new-age travel as alternative lifestyle literature. In recent years, people have opted for a life on the open road instead of a stable home. Vagabonding is […]
Of Human Jam, on the Regents Canal, by Padraig O Loingsigh
Of Human Jam, on the Regent’s Canal There’s a poem by Tomas Hardy, bout a lady and a strumpet, and her fear that in the cemetery their bones would mix indecently. “There’s not a modest […]
Samurai Jason in Othello, 3rd Scene, 3rd Act
I parked the car in the post office parking lot and when I cut the ignition my blues died—or perhaps more to the point, my blues CD died. I walked up the sidewalk to the […]