On personal pronouns.

There was a reason why I started with the whole ‘you’ thing. That’s the ‘you’ that is the other half of me, not the ‘you’ reading this thing. I’ll just wait while everyone’s eyes uncross, shall I?
 The point was to ensure that the whole thing didn’t just devolve into completely self indulgent navel gazing. I thought [...]

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On the sound of music.

Your living room is dominated by the sound system.
If you knew about these things you would be able to astonish readers with a list of the thoughtful and knowledgeable mixture of hi fi separates which go into its make up. As it is, what you can say is that it is sleek and essentially black. The elegant loud speakers are [...]

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On love, actually.

 
So this morning in a fit of Valentine’s Day madness you went all out and made pancakes for your beloved husband.
 
In fact, they weren’t just pancakes but blini, which are clearly superior (with added yeast). You’d give the recipe, but the last time you went at it from scratch it took no less than [...]

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On a book meme

Got this from Reed and the Singing Librarian. Aren’t there a lot of books I’ve never heard of? I’m guessing they are the ones which might come close to being classed as Litchrichuh written in the last 50 years? Such a philistine.
Look at the list of books below. Bold the ones you’ve read, italicize the ones [...]

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On murdering the classics.

It it just me, or is there something screamingly funny about great choral works picked out one fingered on an electric keyboard to the tick tock of a metronome?
 Even if it is a rehersal aid?
Anyway. Here’s Dvorak’s Stabat Mater. And Bernstein’s Chichister Psalms for good measure.

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On comparative linguistics (again).

It’s the Easter concert term at your choir, and you are having a Mary fest. The lynch-pin of this is Dvorak’s Stabat Mater.
The blurb to your copy of the score says that during the period he was writing it no less than three of his children died. I think this is supposed to lend poignancy to what is, after [...]

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On more things to be in favour of.

There are a number of things which colour your attitude towards the whole debate about whether or not Muslim women should be allowed to follow their religious duties and impose their dress codes on the rest of the work force, not least of which is that your stubborn puritan streak puts you much more in [...]

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On being in favour of inequality.

You are no longer convinced about the value of the concept of equality.
This is mainly because there’s a common misconception that in order to be equal, things have to be the same.
You can claim until you are blue in the face and ready to stick a fork in someone’s eye that, say, feminism – to take a concept entirely at [...]

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