New Voice

Secular Sundays would like to apologise for the lengthy delay since the last posting. The usual excuses apply – laziness, drunkenness, parenthood, obsessive running, existential angst, and sport on TV. Reading, however, is the main reason, and a new DeLillo is always a valid excuse for doing nothing else. Some may claim the size of the great man’s slim new offering is not sufficient to offer up as an excuse for keeping one from anything else, but as explained in David O’Connor’s post, there is more contained in the 115 pages of Point Omega than in most 300 page novels. (continue reading…)

The E-Street band are, so they say, the hardest working band in the world. And it is with their songs fresh in the mind after watching their performance in Glastonbury last night (on TV) that my thoughts turn once again to work. The E-Street band and their Boss like to associate themselves with the idea of work, and of the working class – they put in the graft, nightly, with hugely energetic, prolonged performances in order to give us, the punters, value for money. (continue reading…)