after one month break ...

i took an 1 month long break from almost everything (including blogging).

after new year holidays went on a packaged business cum religious retreat abroad (yes i know!). after that had 2 weeks to myself in an out of the way corner of sri lanka i own.

i wanted to think over and review my life and activities without any interference. i came to certain decisions which i hope to carry out.

(btw while my review included my blogging, i found no reasons to change anything in that regard).

on the whole had a very satisfying month. (so much so even my waistline seems to have increased for the first time in my adult life. lol.)

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a thank you to the king of pop + how to judge art

michael jackson, the king of pop (rightly so called), died today.
rip.
and thanks for the music.

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ps
how to judge "art"?
for many subjective things, esp works of "art", long lasting popularity is the best judge. that is if any kind of judgment is needed or possible in the first place.

imo there is no need for such judgment. it is just a matter of personal taste: one enjoys something or one doesn't. but some ppl try to be arbiters of taste (lol) and presume to judge artistic merit using arbitrary values, which they present as objective measuring sticks.

so to repeat, if anyone needs such a ruler, only one acceptable is long lasting popularity.