Author Archives: odeboyz

Misplaced kindness

Posted on March 11, 2021 by odeboyz

My friend only eats ‘ethical meat’. Animals who’ve lived a happy life. That’s all wrong. Ethical meat eaters should eat unhappy animals. Ismo Leikola, Edinburgh Festival 2015 (slightly altered)

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Thirty Minutes That Changed My Life. Leeds, 1953

Posted on March 11, 2021 by odeboyz

As a child I suffered from severe asthma. Leeds, at that time, was a heavily polluted city drenched in soot from factories and domestic coal fires, which was disastrous for people’s health. The result for me was attendance at Junior … Continue reading →

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True love just left the building

Posted on March 8, 2021 by odeboyz
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Book Review: Robin Sloan ~ Mr Penumbra’s 24-hour Bookstore (2012)

Posted on March 8, 2021 by odeboyz

I’d read two books by favoured authors consecutively and had a Monty Python moment – I wanted something ‘completely different’. But what? So I did a search for an elusive ‘completely different’ book by putting key indicators into Mr Google. … Continue reading →

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Knock, Knock

Posted on March 3, 2021 by odeboyz

Two astronauts were circling earth. One went on a space walk to do some minor maintenance. When he returned the cabin door was locked. So he knocked. There was no answer. He knocked again. Louder this time. There was still … Continue reading →

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And the cow jumped over the moon

Posted on February 28, 2021 by odeboyz
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P G Wodehouse: An introduction

Posted on February 28, 2021 by odeboyz

Fans of Wodehouse readily accept that his stories are drivel. Nonetheless they are avid in their worshipping of him. The call him The Master. But what is he the master of? Wodehouse has an extraordinary ability to create word images, … Continue reading →

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The perils of special deals

Posted on February 24, 2021 by odeboyz

An airline introduced a special half-fare rate for wives accompanying their husbands on business trips. Anticipating some valuable testimonials, the publicity airlines PR department sent letters to all the wives of businessmen asking how they’d enjoyed their trip. Responses are … Continue reading →

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Yitzhak Rabin: Nobel Lecture 1994

Posted on February 24, 2021 by odeboyz

At an age when most youngsters are struggling to unravel the secrets of mathematics and the mysteries of the Bible; at an age when first love blooms; at the tender age of sixteen, I was handed a rifle so that … Continue reading →

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Book Review: Bruce Hood ~ The Self Illusion: who do you think you are? (2012)

Posted on February 21, 2021 by odeboyz

Moving out of an intellectual comfort zone is bracing. Am I making decent critique or is it all a tedious misunderstanding? Hood’s principal point is a, “major discovery is that there is no centre in the brain where the self … Continue reading →

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