“San Quentin, what good do you think you do?
Do you think I’ll be different when you’re through?
You bent my heart and mind and you may my soul,
And your stone walls turn my blood a little cold.”
-Johnny Cash – “San Quentin”
I’ve not been blogging long enough to start running repeats of old posts, I think I [...]
Archive for January, 2008
Bullingdon Prison Blues Revisited
Science Tuesday: One Cell’s Junk Is Another Cell’s Treasure
The human genome, and most others for that matter, is a massive and complex template containing the written instructions for life. Those instructions, our complement of protein coding genes, make up only about 1.5 percent of the genome and are nestled among billions of base pairs of so-called junk DNA. This is a misnomer, however, [...]
Z’s Music Monday: Belle & Sebastian
“And the head said that you always were a queer one from the start
For careers you say you went to be remembered for your art
Your obsessions get you known throughout the school for being strange
Making life-size models of the Velvet Underground in clay…”
-Belle and Sebastian – “Expectations”
There are a number of British bands that it [...]
MP3s of the Week – New Counting Crows
Let the 90’s nostalgia begin! With the possibility of another Clinton in the White House – though, thankfully Barack Obama’s trouncing of Hillary Clinton in South Carolina may slow that train – new albums by 90’s rock bands are the next indicator of a revival of the decade of my 20s. This week, 90’s icons [...]
Windsor
“God save the Queen,
We mean it man,
There is no future in England’s dreaming…”
For someone born deep in the heart of republican Ireland and raised in sovereign Australia, Dr O’C has a deep and proud Royalist streak. So, our Saturday excursion to Windsor Castle was more of a pilgrimage for Dr. O’C. In fact, I saw [...]
In a West End town, a dead end world
“Lost in the high street, where the dogs run
Roaming suburban boys
Mother’s got a hairdo to be done
She says they’re too old for toys
Stood by the bus stop with a felt pen
In this suburban hell…”
-The Pet Shop Boys – “Suburbia”
In September of 1985 I was 14 years old and entering the ninth grade, full of puberty [...]
Color Me Impressed
“Everybody at your party
They all look depressed
Everybody dressin’ funny
Color me impressed…”
-The Replacements – “Color Me Impressed”
Two Peach State acts have new records on the British shelves this week and they are doing their home state proud here across the pond.
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A plague on both your houses
If you’re a Republican, I suspect that you’re pretty happy about the recent CNN Democratic Presidential debate in South Carolina. To be fair, I haven’t seen it, but the press accounts and transcript seems that the the two frontrunners went after each other like schoolboys in a playground fight – name calling, fists and wrestling [...]
King of Birds
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Science Tuesday: Transatlantic STDs
The discovery of the New World in the 15th century presented a novel opportunity for exchange of culture, society and biology between two geographically isolated worlds. It did not go particularly well. At the human level, it has been generally accepted that the New Worlders got the short end of the stick as Europeans rained [...]
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