The Pet Shop Boys and The Dream Of The Decade

The nostalgia for the 1980s continues in the UK as more TV programmes and books come out that either hark back to that turbulent time or chart their attenuation. Two cultural releases look set to endure, in particular: a novel and what at first seems a pop record.
Afshin Rattansi’s quartet about sex, finance, terrorism, property [...]

I Had a Dream

By nature, I am a chronic insomniac. A good nightâ??s sleep is hard to come by but when I have one, the dreams come fast and furious. One recent dream that came to me involved a large cow. There it was, this humongous cow grazing on the White House lawn, dropping steaming [...]

Hope This Middle East War is a Bad Dream

I had a disturbing dream about war, politics, and the result of the 2008 Presidential election the other day. Like many dreams, it was created from a combination of current events like the war in Iraq and the 2008 Presidential election mixed with a healthy dose of United States foreign policy insecurity.

It is interesting [...]

Directbuy of Boston South Helps Turn Dream Home Into Home Sweet Home for Iraq War Vet

Yet it’s also a date the many volunteers and businesses who contributed labor and materials to the construction effort coordinated by Homes for Our Troops— a non-profit organization that builds and remodels specially adapted homes for severely wounded veterans—will hold close in their hearts. That’s certainly true for one of the project’s key contributors, John [...]