"Too much risk"

Desmond Tutu on the haste to invade Iraq:

Days before George W Bush and Tony Blair ordered the invasion of Iraq, I called the White House and spoke to Condoleezza Rice, who was then national security adviser, to urge that United Nations weapons inspectors be given more time to confirm or deny the existence of weapons of mass destruction in Iraq. Should they be able to confirm finding such weapons, I argued, dismantling the threat would have the support of virtually the entire world. Ms Rice demurred, saying there was too much risk and the president would not postpone any longer.

The Business Army - audio

An audio excerpt from THE BUSINESS ARMY is now up at my new site.

Thad McIlroy

My interview with Thad McIlroy of The Future of Publishing is now up at my new site.

Heather Birrell

My interview with short story writer Heather Birrell is now up at my new site.

Kathryn Kuitenbrouwer

My interview with novelist Kathryn Kuitenbrouwer is now up at my new site.

New post

 I have a new post at my new site. The subject, in case you're wondering, is the vagaries of weather rather than the vagaries of books....

Goin' viral

It seems that someone has hacked into this site. The logo is now, ah, modified. God knows what else has been monkeyed around with.

Until I figure out how to fix this problem (am still trying to wish it away), you might check out CBT's new incarnation at finnharvor.com/blog.

Wm. Blake

I'm currently working on a paper on Blake, and came across the above portrait of him by John Linnell -- an 18th C. contemporary of Blake's I'd never heard of. It's a very fine piece of work, and not the only sketch Linnell did of him. (For another of the ones I found, go here.)

Plastic Millennium

A kind of an intro thingie to my mega-project, PLASTIC MILLENNIUM

Peter Darbyshire

An excerpt from a long interview I did with Peter Darbyshire is now up at my new site.

Jason Pettus

My interview with Jason Pettus of CCLaP is now up at my new site.

Eclectica

The new issue of Eclectica is now online. I have a poem in it, entitled "Baram 1." More on this magazine later.