A Blog of Bosh

Join the Owl and the Pussy-Cat on their wonderful and magical journey to the Land where the Bong Tree grows. With music, songs and some very funny characters, Tim Bray Productions brings this quirky poem of Edward Lear to life.‘The Owl & the Pussy-Cat’ opens at The PumpHouse Theatre in Takapuna, Auckland on July 5 [...]

Tasmanian politicians have got themselves into a flap about The Cat in the Hat…

A performance of Gilbert and Sullivan’s The Mikado in Sydney prompts a long article on their importance in The Age, 29 May 2004).Peter Craven writes:

Gilbert and Sullivan were the high watermark of the music of the English-speaking people in that long optimistic stretch of time, the 40 or so years before the First World War.There’s [...]

The Fine Art Society, London, will be exhibiting and selling Lear art from 3 to 22 July. There are four watercolours online.

The New York Times reviews the new Dr. Seuss exhibition at the Animazing Gallery.

I have moved the blog from Blogger to WordPress

Migraine aura symptoms gave rise to “Adventures in Wonderland”
Migraine aura may have been the inspiration for Lewis Carroll’s descriptions of ‘Alice’s Adventures in Wonderland,’ physicians suggest in a letter published in the April 17th issue of The Lancet.
Coining the term ‘Alice in Wonderland syndrome’ to refer to certain hallucinations specific to migraine, Lippman first [...]

On 12 May 2004, Edward Lear’s birthday, I am at last releasing the new portal for Nonsense literature. The Lear pages do not contain anything new, updating and renewing them is my next project, but you should find lots of interesting material:

A new Peter Newell site containing, among many other things, the first republication of [...]

Literary nonsense of Sukumar Ray once again!
Dungaroo, Flipfloposaurus, Billy-Hawk Calf among other animals paid a peppy visit to a book store here and regaled book lovers!
They are, after all, characters from the nonsensical world created by legendary Bengali writer Sukumar Ray.
The occasion was the launch of ‘Abol Tabol: The Nonsense World of Sukumar Ray’ [...]