Just one of twenty-odd familiar nursery rhymes uniquely shredded and illustrated by Douglas McClure. Available on Amazon "The Three Jars - Being an Anthology" by Douglas McClure. Check it out!
21 October 2021
10 September 2021
Let's get ACTIVE
The triode was invented in 1906 by Lee De Forest and by around 1920 was refined enough to be commercially viable for widespread distribution. It was the World's first 'Active Device'. It could amplify and oscillate. It (and its derivatives) made possible all of the technologies of modernity – public address, radio, audio/video recording, television, radar, radio telescopy, electron microscopy, computing, the Internet, artificial intelligence. Without active devices, modernity would vanish in a flash.
Those who really want to turn the clock back need only abandon science, technology and education. Nature will do the rest.
15 August 2021
The man that maks the smoke come oot the lum
8 August 2021
Truth, Language & Reality
The truth, the whole truth and nothing but the truth
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31 July 2021
A minor victory
I recently uploaded to YouTube my version of Jake Thackray's 'Brother Gorilla' set to the tune of 'The Three Bells'. I was immediately served a copyright infringement order from the copyright owners of the American country song, The Three Bells (Little Jimmy Brown), issued by The Browns in 1959. I pointed out that their song was itself a reworking of 'Les trois cloches' written and composed by Swiss artist Jean Villard Gilles in 1939. Also that mine followed the chord/melody sequence of the original, not the simplified version of Little Jimmy Brown. I said I would not challenge a copyright infringement order from the estate of Jean Villard Gilles, or that of Jake Thackray, but that no such order had yet been issued. The Americans withdrew their claim and retreated, tails between their legs.
29 June 2021
The Epiphone Blues Master, restored
26 May 2021
6 May 2021
The Gorilla and the Three Bells
13 April 2021
Defence intoned
25 March 2021
New Regime
forgotten ways. We cultivate despair
in veiled anathema of womankind.
We are the ancient writings reassessed
by gunlight in the aftermath of war.
Ours is the only truth you need to know.
18 March 2021
Ode to Consciousness
There is a meeting place of mind and eyes where images compete for conscious view and where perception banishes surprise at what is beaten down, and what wins through. With or without our influence or ken it's here our individual selves begin; for some are dulled and others walk in sleep never to wake again, though quiet voices whisper in the din of time for laughter and a time to weep. That part of us that is no rushing thing awaits our quietness, or our fatigue if nothing less can calm the eddying onrush of our futilities. Intrigue, infatuation, habit and despair crowd to the fore, impatient - yet it waits forever and beyond. Is it so weak that it cannot declare an interest in our battle with the fates, or does it hide because we fail to seek? What flows below the words may yet awake remembrance of an earlier array of promises fulfilled. Each new mistake derails the latent urge, with each new day, to change before the changeless. We can hear the choral syntheses of soil and soul proclaim the unity of earth and mind in answer to the fear of gradual dissolution of the whole of consciousness, as molecules unbind.
8 March 2021
The Weft
16 February 2021
Feet, breet & Matthew Gloag
29 January 2021
While My Renaissance Lute Gently Weeps
19 January 2021
paraplexed.com
It had to be done. For a long time now, the Paranormal Hotel blog (formerly Helga's Chickens) has been renamed to PARAPLEXED while being accessible only as paranormal-hotel.blogspot.com. But today I have finally treated the blog to its own domain. We are now paraplexed.com (though the blogspot address will continue to work).
All that remains is a sense of purpose. And a feeling '21 is going to be a good year...
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