March 31, 2013: He is risen!

He is risen indeed! What dreadful singing of Jesus Christ Is Risen Today in the Resurrection Day service from Liverpool Cathedral this morning. Sounded more like a funeral dirge. I’m dressed in party clothes today and hope to be singing Resurrection Day and other happy gospel songs during coffee after this morning’s service. I sang How Can … Continue reading →

March 30: Windows 7 spontaneous reboot

I’ve just done a Windows 7 Ultimate reinstall on my HP Pavilion G series i5 laptop because it kept spontaneously rebooting, causing me to lose lots of work in progress. I got round it (sometimes) by continually resaving work, but I still lost what I’d done since the last resave. So I spent most of … Continue reading →

March 21, 2013: This show will change your life

The above slideshow was captured from images in a video which can be viewed at http://www.britishmuseum.org/whats_on/exhibitions/ice_age_art/about_the_exhibition/the_female_gaze.aspx. Some scribbled thoughts at the exhibition The magical atmosphere is almost unbearable. These tiny figurines still have the power to charm (in the old, original meaning of the word) 20,000 or more years after their creation. People move quietly, … Continue reading →

A Seder for the whole world

Let us celebrate a Seder for the whole world, remembering how slave voices were raised in the plantations of America, echoing Moses’ cry to Pharoah: Let my people go. For it is written: “. . . say unto the children of Israel, I am the Lord, and I will bring you out from under the … Continue reading →

Newsweek Gilad Atzmon special (Spanish)

Newsweek’s Atzmon Special (Spanish) Friday, March 22, 2013 at 12:02PM Gilad Atzmon: My message is universal Brilliant musician and controversial writer, Atzmon Comes to Argentina By Cristian H. Savio Translated by Carlos Omran There are those who believe that in nowadays Argentina, politics traverses art in an inevitable merge, and that artists, should abstract themselves of … Continue reading →

House of Earth: A Novel by Woody Guthrie

Browse Inside House of Earth: A Novel by Woody Guthrie. This reader displays the introduction and end pages (bibliography, acknowledgements, etc), but none of Woody’s actual text. The following is my review for the Morning Star: Woody Guthrie: House of Earth (Infinitum Nihil, £14.99) Woody Guthrie was in love with words. Obsessed by them. They … Continue reading →

Obama makes fun of heckler asking “who killed Rachel Corrie?” | The Electronic Intifada

“Who killed Rachel Corrie? Rachel Corrie was killed by your money and weapons!” Not a word Some could say this is the nub of the relationship between Israel and the US. Rachel Corrie, an American citizen, was killed ten years ago by a bulldozer as she tried to protect a Palestinian family’s home from being … Continue reading →

March 21: Transcript of Obama’s Speech in Israel – NYTimes.com

Transcript of Obama’s Speech in Israel – NYTimes.com. March 21, 2013 Transcript of Obama’s Speech in Israel Following is a complete transcript of President Obama’s remarks in Jerusalem on March 21, 2013. (Transcript courtesy of Federal News Service). The welcome that I’ve received from the people of Israel. (Cheers, applause.) Thank you. I bring with … Continue reading →

March 31, 2013: Songs for Resurrection Day

I shall be singing How Can It Be in St Paul’s Church, Manningham, during the Good Friday service on March 29. I hope to sing Resurrection Day during the dawn service in Heaton, on March 31. Continue reading →

Long May the Sun Shine

This is a test of embedding a Bandcamp album of my songs I’ve been having problems uploading audio and video files to my blogs so am trying an alternative system, using my albums at karldallas.bandamp.com. Continue reading →