Showing posts with label Cool. Show all posts
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Friday, December 6, 2024

Senses working overtime #500

Photo by Tessa Edmiston on Unsplash


T
his is the 500th edition of Jewels For The Thirsty (the blog's title comes from an XTC song called...Senses Working Overtime - see what I did there?) 

I've selected one item from each of the top 6 most popular weeks of all time (well, since it started with week #1 in April 2015).


The most popular week so far has been #178 - 

 John Cage's 10 rules for teachers (#178 from 2018)




2 Christmas is football (# 193 - below is from 2019) 



Always a frenzy of activity over the festive period - notably Liverpool lost their 100% winning record and Man City lost three games! Loads of drama to follow on MOTD.

As to my teams - Rochdale are solid in the lower reaches of League One and the gunners wobbled. But we still beat Spurs 4-2!!

January transfer window is always interesting. We need some defenders please.


3 The Fab Fabs (#263, from 2020)




They heighten my senses every day, let alone every week.


4 Vinyl celebration #213 (below is from 2019)

 
It's been a funny old week. But then I connected up my turntable after a long time in storage. It felt good! This week's edition is late. Wah wah. Cry me a river. Here are five plus vinyl celebrations.




 

5 Waterloo Sunset (#209, below is from 2019)

 


The Kinks masterpiece goes under the Thom Hickey microscope on his great blog - The Immortal Jukebox.


Overtime: Senses working overtime #57 (below is from 2016. This one is a peach. Hard to pick just one item so do yourself a giant favour and go to the link. But if you shove...try):

Cool

I was never a cool kid, never hip, so this piece from a kindred spirit struck a nice chord.

Friday, May 20, 2016

Senses working overtime #57

1 Innovation

Excellent article from the New York Times on innovation. It's a longish read but what the hell! Do yourself a favour.

2 Cool
I was never a cool kid, never hip, so this piece from a kindred spirit struck a nice chord.

3 Bad Robot
Actually this JJ Abrams company isn't in the run down but there are some great stories in this list of TV Production company names.

4 Stanley is 90 and an inspiration
Great story from the New York Times about Stanley Turkel, how he spends his Sundays and living well.

5 DC vs Marvel


I am a fan of some DC comics - okay, pretty much only Sgt Rock. Batman and Superman don't do it for like Marvel comic characters like Sgt Fury, The Fantastic Four, Thor, Spiderman, and The Silver Surfer.

This article goes some way to explain why DC lags behind.

Overtime: Commander Cody
My favourite song of the week. It's so good here's three versions: