The anime trilogy Memories is, to borrow the title from Episode 3, “cannon fodder” for the brain.

In the first episode:   Magnetic Rose, a cadre of astronauts, Ivanov, a vodka swilling Russian pilot, Miguel a Spanish ladies man, Heintz, a German family man with a tragic past, and Aoshima, the cigarette smoking Japanese programmer, descend into a… Continue reading

In early November, and after a full and bulbous mourning moon, my wife and I take a look around.

In the apartment above us, a man of around 50 years old, is still hanging in there after two operations for some kind of intestinal cancer. My wife kindly… Continue reading