Saturday, December 13, 2008

Ashin Kovida -- from Switzerland, on Buddhism and politics --

http://ashinkovida-swiss.blogspot.com/2008/08/buddhism-and-politics.html

Apparently, this is not the same U Kovida who fled Burma after being one of the leaders of the Saffron Revolution.

It's a good blog, I hope he writes more.

Special Friday Night post--Robert Graves' I Claudius--just beautiful--poetic--because written by a poet

who needed money. Derrick Jacobi as Claudius, the Roman Emperor. The Voice--narrated in the first person, is unmistakeably Graves'--has ...