Senses working overtime #269

1 Lazy

Photo by howling red on Unsplash

This week I'm pulling the lazy card. We've just finished a 12 week term which included unprecedented moments like a Covid-19 Lockdown in NZ. That's starting to fade in the memory, never-the-less, it resulted in a totally knackering term. I'm pretty empty and really tired. The last two weeks especially have been of the smell-of-a-oily-rag variety.

So - laziness abounds in this edition.

2 RIP Milton Glaser

He created/designed a huge number of record covers like the Jan Hammer cover. God bless you Milton.

3 RIP Carl Reiner

4  Anne Lamott

5 Memory

Overtime: Splash mountain's makeover

Senses working overtime #82

1 Holy homework Batman! What a week!

Perspective is required: read this!

And then check out these tweets from Scotland.

2 Bizarro world

Welcome to Bizarro World. Here's how a New Zealand paper reacted to Donald Trump's ascension:

3 WTF part 2
Here's how the world's newspapers reacted.


4 Civil disobedience anyone?

This essay by Henry David Thoreau is a very timely read!

4 This too...

The election in the US has led to an outpouring of words - some nah nah nah toldjaso; many angry; but also some considered like this piece.

5 Hollywood depressed
Carl Reiner had the best tweet!

Overtime
Finally, my award for the best piece on the Trump win goes The New Yorker. Partisan and passionate. But I can't argue with them!