A Fool There Was
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This is not an original article. It was written by WES DAVIS for NY Times. APRIL FOOLS' DAY leaves a lot to be desired. No one gets a day off work when it falls on a weekday. And work is harder when you find yourself doing whatever you do with your shoelaces tied together. But the real problem, as the other spring holidays make clear by contrast, is that there's no personality attached to April Fools' Day. Just look at the celebrations you can build around an Irish missionary or a somnolent rodent, to say nothing of a messiah or a plague-wielding patriarch. What April 1 needs is a patron saint of the practical joke. Fortunately, there's a clear choice for the job. It's hard to say whether the Anglo-Irish prankster Horace de Vere Cole's birth in May 1881 really occurred at Blarney, in County Cork, as he would later....
My Experiments with Truth - Part I
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Cricket balls are tough beasts. Especially when they hit you. And they do hit you hard. So is this a blog on cricket? No. Its about truth. Truth hitting you in the face. An experience when 'gobsmack' stops being an ordinary concept, or a simple linguistic register. It was a breakfast I happened to be in. As a journalist I was ....
Camera Obscura
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The camera obscura is, simply put, any dark room. But this dark room captures the image and plonks it on the opposite wall. Yes, its upside down but then what's life without a few ..umm, ups and downs, shall we say. Now, this isn't what you would call a dark room, would you? So why am I calling it camera obscura. Firstly, it's a nicely pretentious name. I like photography. That's another reason. I am a little partial towards Latin as well (didn't think a TV journo would say that, did you?) And its got an umbilical link with the word 'obscure.' You know, boss wants us to explain things to all of you - on and off camera. So don't freak if I grow - while my hairline gently recedes - fond of the semantics of 'obscure.' Or is it semiotics?....
