@wwaycorrigan [Listen to an audio version of this blog entry here.] For most of us, although tragically not all, dealing with the death of our parents is as unavoidable as our own death. Same body, different mind While the actual passing of a mother and/or a father is, I can only imagine at this stage, […]
@wwaycorrigan [Click here for an audio version of this blog entry.] ‘Is it possible that he has nothing but cowardice and fear of death to make him live?’ So Sonia Marmeládova asked herself about the one she cared for dearly, the murderer Rodion Raskolnikov, in...
@wwaycorrigan There really is no greater an emotive topic than death and the pain and suffering one’s passing inflicts on those left behind. (OK, romance heartbreak might come close at the actual moment of hurt but this generally diminishes with time.) We never really come...
@wwaycorrigan «The world has never been better and very few of us know it.» That was the hook for a talk given by the ‘celebrity’ cognitive psychologist Steven Pinker in Bogotá recently. It’s also the thrust of his latest book, Enlightenment Now. No one can...
@radiobrendan It was Benjamin Franklin who said that nothing in this world is certain except death and taxes. Some people, however, manage to find ways around the latter. As of yet, though, no one has managed to get the better of the former. For something so inevitable, that many of us give very little, if […]
@radiobrendan The Wrong Way approach to spirituality and such like has very much been in the contemporary science sphere. The closest thing to the belief that we have an immortal, incorporeal soul is the idea that the energy running through our living bodies continues in some...
La última parte del año está invadida de conciertos, en una semana se honrará la memoria del líder de la extinta banda Death, un personaje que a mediados de los ochenta compuso obras musicales referentes dentro de la historia del metal. Amigos y colegas tocarán en...
Luego de los últimos acontecimientos en materia de conciertos, la invasión sueca continúa, esta vez cinco gladiadores nos contarán acerca de las épicas batallas musicales del dios de las mentiras. Bienvenidos. Por este mismo mes pero en el año 2009 tuvimos la...
La seguidilla de conciertos que hay por estos días y que se prolongará hasta finales de mayo, no da chance ni de parpadear, el turno le corresponde a una de las agrupaciones más representativas y referentes del metal Sueco. ¿Qué ha sucedido desde su última visita a...
