7 Massive Misconceptions Many Never Question

Needless to say the three wise monkey picture below, featuring the blind, the deaf and the dumb of the popular Chinese pictorial maxim (“see no evil, hear no evil, speak no evil”) is an ironic reminder of the actual prevailing cloud-cuckoo-landish mindset of humanity as a whole....

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The Parting of the Ways

Do you know the story behind church bells flying to Rome to receive shrift from the Pope and coming back all chiming to celebrate Christ's resurrection? Well, this is actually a 7th century European tradition when ringing bells from Good Friday to Easter Sunday was prohibited...

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Gone With Alice

1, 2, 3, Alice was born in Nightmareland,I'd just like to comfort her.1, 2, 3, Alice fell over into a black hole,I might be able to rescue her."Alice & June", Indochine (2005) As a child in my imagination Easter often conjured up images of Alice's world. Possibly on account...

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Time Untold

Once again, tonight we'll switch to Summer Time by moving one hour forward which is two hours ahead of the sun at its highest — at least, in most of Europe, which is seriously complicating matters or “looking for noon at 2 pm” as we say in France. A stressful, disturbing step...

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The Swing

Theme of the week commands: the rhythm of time and its ups and downs. Be as it may, how tragically ironic that Michael Hutchence got so severely depressed he chose to end it all by hanging himself — even though his last partner (who also left this world) claimed it was a self-sex...

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Fog Over the Channel

The French and the English are a bit like Tom and Jerry. Some kind of a cat and dog love/hate relationship. We're complementary. Forever bickering, but basically very fond of each other. I would like to take the opportunity of tonight's France vs. England Six Nations Championship...

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Check Matt

No, this is NOT Matt Bellamy for those who might think it's him (honestly, girls, he's by no means a sex symbol, come to your senses!). Part Houdini, part Mandrake the Magician, part Arsène Lupin, part Batman, Matt, who owes his name to a pun, is the sensual, mysterious handsome...

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Trinity From The Matrix Explains How We Are Living in an Actual Matrix

On a trip into the matrix the other day, I made the same observation as Carrie-Anne Moss aka Trinity, that all these people obsessed with their stupidphones (the “phonists”) were more disconnected than ever. The sudden realisation that the not-so-crazy story by Stephen...

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Be My Enemy

A timely track by the Waterboys to entertain the paranoia and avenging frenzy right after my latest post about karmic enemies! I don't know the backstory behind these lyrics, but the whole song works great wonders as a brilliant exutory on any kind of frustration a human being...

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Chinese Pet Peeves

Complementing my Saint Valentine's Day bestiary of soulmates, here is, as promised, the bestiary of “pet peeves” or “scapegoats” (which we call Turk's heads in French) by the same Chinese zodiac experts. A word of caution though (literally and figuratively): use it with a grain...

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