Senses working overtime #452

1 Feeling this first week of January 2024:

Photo by Grant McIver on Unsplash

2 Reading: Elton John's Me

3 Re-reading: Roderick Random (Tobias Smollett)

As with Elton's book, I picked up a copy a year or so ago and they've been in the to-be-read pile ever since. Time to correct that.

I read the Smollett book when at University (so, over 40 years ago), and decided on a whim to buy a copy from The Little Red Bookstore. Now re-reading it with different eyes (I guess different brain too, but maybe not).

4 Listening: Thelonious Monk - Plays Duke Ellington

I'm enjoying a bit of a Monk-a-thon at present. If it's only one song you have time for, try Caravan.

5 Reading: About the sixties San Francisco band - The Charlatans

Overtime:  

Senses working overtime #62

1 Jeeerrrrrry

Jerry Seinfeld is a regular visitor to these pages. He has season 8 of Comedians in Cars Getting Coffee out (soon? now? not sure). If you've never seen any (!!!!) go to YouTube right now and treat yourself.

2 Tim's views
Thanks to a link from James Whatley - here's a series of photos from Tim's view aboard the space station.

3 PM Dawn
RIP Attrell.

4 Rowan and Elton
Hilarious YouTube clip has Rowan Atkinson interviewing Elton John.



5 Welcome to a scary world...

Vantage have some great photography stories. This one is slightly creepy/ scary though - it details the strange world created by Mark Hogancamp who was attacked outside a bar in Kingston, NY. After coming out of a coma, Hogancamp created his own recovery therapy in his backyard — a miniature Belgian WWII town called Marwencol where Hogancamp can work on his dexterity and on his imagination.

Overtime: Pixar
All seventeen of the Pixar movies rated! Your life is now complete!

Senses working overtime #42

1 Fake fake fake!

Great story about a Nikon photo contest that went amiss.

2 Music Is Love
I love music - couldn't live without it. But why? This article helps explain why it's so important to me.

3 Lucky bastards

Loved this stunning piece about James Garner and how 'lucky' he was. 

4 It's a small world after all
This Guardian piece explains how Facebook has brought the world down to 3.5 degrees of separation. Scary!

5 Piano man
How cool is Elton John? Very very cool! He surprised London commuters at St Pancras with a piano and a short tinkle!

Overtime: San Francisco
How cool is San Francisco? Very very cool as these then and now photo's prove. I love SF!!