by phoenix | Sep 10, 2005 | Uncategorized
I’m going to a wonderful concert tomorrow night performed by friends of mine from Sydney, Kim and Heather. They are ethnomusicologists fascinated with spiritual ancient music. They were commissioned to recreate the orchestra of the second temple...
by phoenix | Sep 10, 2005 | Uncategorized
Brown has been replaced as the key co-ordinator for disaster relief. So much for doing “a heck of a job,” eh? I first read this as saying he’d been fired as head of FEMA. I’m still amazed he hasn’t been, given the ongoing questions about artificially...
by phoenix | Sep 10, 2005 | Uncategorized
by phoenix | Sep 9, 2005 | Uncategorized
qamar posted two fascinating links: 1) a Katrina timeline which shows that Bush did indeed declare a Federal emergency before Katrina made landfall, but *then* went on to continue his holiday, which I still think is callous; that...
by phoenix | Sep 9, 2005 | Uncategorized
If you were as outraged by Little Johnny Howard’s comments on what it means to be an average Australian as I was, then go read this inspiring post by my friend silverblue on being passionately exceptional. “I’m glad I’m not ‘average’. I don’t want...
