Senses working overtime #238

1 Vinyl!

Delicious!!

2 Emma Stone

The ad is interesting but the critique is hilarious!!!

3 How Einstein learned stuff

A worthwhile read about Einstein's learning habits.

4 Movies for Christmas
Austin Kleon has curated an interesting site with movie recommendations for Christmas.

5 The Crown (Season 3)

We've just finished watching this season. Olivia Colman and the rest of the cast are amazing. Can't wait for season 4 and the Thatcher years.

Overtime 1: Austin wonders
I wonder, sometimes, when artists die, what happens to all the images and ideas they once received. (More here)

Overtime 2: C.D. wonders

My American Scrawl Increasingly indecisive, about matters both big and little, I have found that poetry is the one arena where I am not inclined to crank up the fog machine, to palter or dissemble or quaver or hastily reverse myself. This is the one scene where I advance determined, if not precisely ready, to do battle with what an overly cited Jungian described as the anesthetized heart, the heart that does not react. C.D. Wright

Senses working overtime #237

1 Boba Fett

Inside his world of cool!

2 Poetry corner

What I Didn't Know Before

was how horses simply give birth to other
horses. Not a baby by any means, not
a creature of liminal spaces, but already
a four-legged beast hellbent on walking,
scrambling after the mother. A horse gives way
to another horse and then suddenly there are
two horses, just like that. That’s how I loved you.
You, off the long train from Red Bank carrying
a coffee as big as your arm, a bag with two
computers swinging in it unwieldily at your
side. I remember we broke into laughter
when we saw each other. What was between
us wasn’t a fragile thing to be coddled, cooed
over. It came out fully formed, ready to run.

Ada Limón (2018)

3 SBW

Williams praying with All Blacks team-mate Ofa Tuungafasi

A very impressive New Zealander! I'm very proud of him.

4 How movies went from 15 minutes to 2 hours long




5 The lure of the sea

Apparently those who visit the seashore regularly have better mental health and are happier. I can see that.

Overtime: Bob Dylan - Oh Sister
This live version from the sublime Hard Rain album came on the Radio Wozza via the wozza-pod this morning and I hit repeat four times before I was done with it. An amazing song and a real sing-a-long with Bob moment on the chorus. 

Sadly that version (with different lyrics) isn't on YouTube so here's another live one - great great song!

Senses working overtime #236

1 Love and marriage, and divorce

This new movie, starring Adam Driver and Scarlett Johansson, looks goooood! Looks like a return to Lost In Translation form for SJ. Fingers crossed.

2 Poetry corner

Suggested Donation In the morning I drink coffee until I can see a way to love life again. It’s ok, there’s no difference between flying and thinking you’re flying until you land. Somehow I own like six nail clippers and I honestly can’t remember ever buying even one. My sister came to visit and saw them in a small wooden bowl. I heard her laughing in the bathroom. I hope she never dies. There’s no harm in hoping until you land. The deer are awake. Is one pregnant? If they kept diaries the first entry would read: Was born Was licked Tried walking Then they’d walk away and no second entry would ever exist. I run the deer’s archive. It’s very light work. Visitors must surrender their belongings. Surrender to me your beautiful shirt. Heather Christle (2019)

3 Marks and Sparks get joyously jumpy!
I like this advert for M&S at Christmas!

4 Those fabulous sixties!



5 The Devil Next Door

Jacky and I watched this Netflix documentary about the man suspected of being Ivan The Terrible, from the Nazi death camps, in various stages of horror. So much drama at those eventual trials !

Overtime: Warren Ellis
This is becoming a regular feature but Warren continues to nail it in his newsletter sign offs. I love his positive approach and I'll continue to share them as long as they contain these sentiments:

Recognise that you carry your weight, and that you always turn out to be stronger than you think you are, and stronger than people tell you that you are.  Whatever the week brings, you're strong enough. Take time for yourself, take a breath, do what you need to do.  Weird as it seems right now, you'll figure it out.  Hold on tight. See you soon.

Senses working overtime #235

1 Holy homework

Only one way to start this week's jewels! This visual feast for the eyes is stunning.

2 Code breakers

Excellent piece from Maria Popova's blog about American women employed as code breakers during WW2.

3 A year from now... (from Seth)

Will today’s emergency even be remembered? Will that thing you’re particularly anxious about have been hardly worth the time you put into it?

Better question: What could you do today that would matter a year from now?

4 Star Wars: Resistance Reborn by Rebecca Roanhorse

Gets a great review for the novel from Star Wars in the Classroom. Check it out here. Great name btw: Roanhorse!

5 David Mitchell

I'm a fan, thanks to the Observer and Would I lie To You? Nice article here!

Overtime: The return of Poetry Corner

I've been away from poetry many months and now I must rake leaves with nothing blowing between your house and mine Lorine Niedecker (1956)

Senses working overtime #234

1 Carrie

Interesting article on the last days of Carrie Fisher.

2 Advice on presentations

I read a lot of these 'learn the secrets to successful speeches', type pieces. This one is one of the best I've come across so far.

3 Why there is no such thing as a gifted child

An enlightening piece from some experts out standing in their field.

4 Cold hard truths about your workplace

Good light reading and you might even recognise yourself and your workplace here.

5 Why Warren doesn't get work in Britain!

Genius article by the great great Warren Ellis.

Overtime: And Warren's recent sign off message is inspiring too: 

Let's see what next week brings before we panic, eh?  Deep breath.  Feet on the ground.  Take a few minutes for yourself. Summon your powers.  Here we go.  Hold on tight. See you next week.