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Emeralds and Ash

http://emeraldsandash.blogspot.com/

Words, time and experience, life, death, love and hope, stars and galaxies and shopping centers and freedom and music and fear and loathing in the Australian Capital Territory, philosophy and art.

Added on: Feb 28th, 2007
Country: Australia
Language: English

Author: Gorgonzola Happiness
Listed in: Writing Culture
Tags: art Culture poetry Psychology philosophy memory

Recent Posts

Epic Failure of Capitalism

Posted on Monday October 6th, 2008 at 16:25 in capitalism, Failure, money, stock markets

I heard a commentator today describe the current global financial crisis as "an epic failure of capitalism". Would anyone like to bet that if they manage to clean up this mess with reasonable efficacy that they just start doing things (i.e. conducti...
Increasing Blog Traffic

Posted on Wednesday October 1st, 2008 at 06:35 in arse, ass, blog traffic, blogging, boobs, breasts, death, money, murder, pornography, religion, sex

While I imagine that some solitary entrepreneur (with a post-postmodern eye to recursive self-animation) is somewhere writing a blog all about how to how to increase the visitors/traffic to your blog, I have been reflecting just now on the number of ...
An Open Letter to a Friend

Posted on Monday September 29th, 2008 at 03:25 in censorship, difference, Faith, freedom of speech, love, science

What sort of relationship can be built on such unstable foundations ? Where the (apparently) static, authoritarian and immovable deepest religious faith of one so starkly contradicts the dynamic, organic, living, ancient and creative Universe of the...
On the Occasion of My 39th Birthday

Posted on Wednesday September 17th, 2008 at 02:22 in 39, birthdays, captain america, growing up, immaturity, panty raider, wanker

In all deepest humility and pensive wistfulness, I would like to quote someone I once read or heard somewhere I can't remember because I am self-evidently getting so old that my brain is slowly falling off the top of my spinal cord:You only grow up o...
From my cold, dead hands!

Posted on Thursday September 11th, 2008 at 16:13 in charlton heston, christian pacifism, crazy, guns, jesus christ, second amendment, ten commandments, thou shall not kill

The iconic photograph above is of Charlton Heston clutching a Revolutionary War musket and declaring:As we set out this year to defeat the divisive forces that would take freedom away, I want to say those words again for everyone within the sound of ...