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Murakami’s Norwegian Wood: Death, Winter, and Love

April 3, 2021April 3, 2021 Carl Kruse

by Hazel Anna Rogers I first read Haruki Murakami’s ‘Norwegian Wood’ when I was 17, in my first relationship. As it happened, it was my first foray into Japanese literature, […]

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Happy Anniversary to J.R.R. and Edith Tolkien

March 21, 2021March 21, 2021 Carl Kruse

Here at the blog we celebrate some dates and anniversaries in our quirky way. The seasons, DNA Day, Bitcoin Pizza Day, Bitcoin’s Birthday, and in today’s post the anniversary of […]

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Writing In Winter

March 15, 2021March 15, 2021 Carl Kruse

by Hazel Anna Rogers It is snowing outside today, a rare sight on the south coast of the UK. Rarer still would be for the snow to settle and stay, […]

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Psychogeography: Maps, Borders, Paradise

February 28, 2021February 28, 2021 Carl Kruse

by Hazel Anna Rogers When I was young and being driven somewhere or other, I would always notice and ponder the physical space between signs indicating where we were arriving […]

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Homage to Samuel Beckett

February 15, 2021February 15, 2021 Carl Kruse

by Fraser Hibbitt There is a myth from Ancient Greece – containing a well-known proverb that reverberated in Greek thought. It involves the creature Silenus, the teacher of the wine […]

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On the Wonders of Classical Music

February 9, 2021February 9, 2021 Carl Kruse

by Hazel Anna Rogers I have always listened to classical music, though perhaps that’s rather too vague a term for all of the wonderful varieties of music the name “classical” […]

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Farewell Alto Reed – Saxophonist Extraordinaire

January 22, 2021January 22, 2021 Carl Kruse

by Fraser Hibbitt and Carl Kruse Just before the new year, Alto Reed passed away, adding a sad note to an already challenging year. The saxophonist and friend who spent […]

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How I fell in Love With Winter

January 11, 2021January 11, 2021 Carl Kruse

     by Hazel Anna Rogers           I was always a “summer” person, as it were, despite my tendency to overheat and get exceptionally sweaty the minute the weather went above 17 […]

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Check Point Charlie Berlin

January 4, 2021January 11, 2021 Carl Kruse

by Carl Kruse During the Cold War, Checkpoint Charlie was a border between East and West Berlin or more appropriately, the ONLY border where you could legally cross between the […]

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A Poem by Hazel Anna Rogers

December 28, 2020December 28, 2020 Carl Kruse

I wake, open, Into the arms of the gentle night. Not yet do the silhouettes of naked boughs Charm the light, Nor has the soft chatter of sharp beaks Set […]

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The Art of Journaling

December 22, 2020December 22, 2020 Carl Kruse

by Fraser Hibbitt There can be a stifling freedom around a blank page, and that is all a journal is; a collection of blank pages. A journal is comprised of […]

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Reveries of Starvation – Proust, Melville & Donuts

December 17, 2020December 19, 2020 Carl Kruse

by Hazel Anna Rogers I spent a large part of my teenage to early adult life starving myself, to various degrees. My memory around these five or six years is […]

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Tips For Better Conversations From Celeste Headlee

December 5, 2020February 23, 2021 Carl Kruse

by Carl Kruse Apologies for the click-baity title though fortunately no click bait here only notes from a Celeste Headlee TED talk in Savannah, Georgia on how to have better […]

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On Walking or Psychogeography

November 19, 2020November 19, 2020 Carl Kruse

by Fraser Hibbitt I started walking because there was nothing else to do. Walking, I had found, was one way to disperse those sobering complaints of everyday tasks, leaving blind, […]

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Music, Memory and the Cloud

November 9, 2020November 9, 2020 Carl Kruse

by Hazel Anna Rogers My father will often, upon hearing a song from his youth, be able to conjure up when exactly in his life he first heard the song […]

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Happy Birthday Bitcoin

October 30, 2020October 30, 2020 Carl Kruse

by Carl Kruse Twelve years ago some guy (or group of people, nobody really knows) called Satoshi Nakamoto, published an 8-page white paper called “Bitcoin: A Peer-to-Peer Electronic Cash System,” […]

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How To Name Your Band

October 28, 2020October 28, 2020 Carl Kruse

by Carl Kruse So you have put together a band but no idea what to call it. You also are uncertain what to name your new album. Nor are you […]

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Neurosis in Santorini

October 25, 2020October 25, 2020 Carl Kruse

by Hazel Anna RodgersI think in the past I had quite a stressed personality, quite erratic and meticulous without much room for spontaneity within my rigid regime. I still enjoy […]

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