We were clued into this by Samantha when we visited at Christmas. It's now on TV One On Demand starting at Season 7 (the one she was watching). Well worth your time!
Another day, another royal wedding. Jacky thought this dress was 'stunning' so this article is for her. 2 Poetry corner Numeric Values
The Prime Mover The Second Sex The Third Wheel The Four Seasons (see also Horseman) The Fifth Dimension The Sixth Sense The Seven Hills (see also Dwarves) The Eighth Wonder (see also Octomom) The Nine Muses The Tenth Inning The Eleventh Hour The Twelve Tribes
Elaine Equi (2015) 3 BBC 2 idents
4 Weird
The image, a street in Macau with the Grand Lisboa Casino looming in the background, is thought provoking (photograph by Paul Tsui, National Geographic), but the Twitter thread is also a wonderful dialogue. 5 More great poetry In which Raymond Carver brilliantly sums up the joy of rain (and relaxing about life's mistakes): Rain
Woke up this morning with a terrific urge to lie in bed all day and read. Fought against it for a minute.
Then looked out the window at the rain. And gave over. Put myself entirely in the keep of this rainy morning.
Would I live my life over again? Make the same unforgiveable mistakes? Yes, given half a chance. Yes.
Raymond Carver Overtime A story abour LeBron James and the most innovative school in America. Interesting reading. What have you got to lose?
My favourite Unsplash photo from the week. 2 Batman villains
Entertaining look at the female villains in Batman (zap, kapow) 3 Tim and Colin Excellent piece about two American christians who also happen to be big time NFL Quarterbacks - Tim Tebow and Colin Kaepernick. Oh Yeah! BTW. The NFL is back baby!! 4 Radio Zimmer Head
Steller Vox look at how Hans Zimmer and Radiohead worked on a song for Blue Planet II. 5 Heavens to Betsy Brilliant satire from The Borowitz Report:
In a ringing endorsement from the Secretary of Education, Betsy DeVos said on Thursday that she did the math on Donald Trump’s tax plan and that she estimates it will save the United States roughly eleventy krillion dollars.
“I took out a pencil and paper and figured it out the old-fashioned way,” DeVos told reporters. “I wound up going through a lot of paper, because eleventy krillion has ten hundredteen zeroes.”
DeVos stressed that the eleventy-krillion figure was actually a conservative estimate. “The exact number was between eleventy and ninety-quelve, but I rounded down to eleventy,” she said.
The Education Secretary said that the national debt, which currently stands at more than twenty trillion dollars, would be greatly reduced by the eleventy-krillion-dollar windfall.
“If you subtract eleventy krillion from twenty trillion, you get a number so small it has no name,” she explained.
Pretty much doesn't get any better than this. Love this mirror image and here's more. 2 Welcome to the golden age of television
In case you were wondering, that would be right now! And I thought I'd lived through it in the sixties/seventies! I love that photo of the writer as well. The couch, the array of pictures, her pose, the coffee table, the skirting board. All, very, cool. 3 Jim Carrey
Jim Carrey: I Needed Color from JC on Vimeo. Genius artist!! Who knew (well, obviously, apart from him!) 4 Interview questions Great list of things to ask your next interviewee. 5 3D Coke advert in Times Square
3D Coke Sign in Times Square from Loren Brinton on Vimeo. I love Coke adverts! Extra texture If you are NOT one of the 31 million (and growing) people who have watched this amazing animated history of JAPAN vid on YouTube, then WATCH IT!!
It seems the great Walt Whitman wrote a novel called Life and Adventures of Jack Engle. This is the story of how it was eventually found. In 2016! 2 World's first flying car! Here it is - the world's first commercial flying car goes on sale. The road to the future! 3 Ar McCain... I'm no fan of John McCain but I love this rebuke and warning for Donald Trump. 4 This week in geography The wonderful people at National Geographic have done it again! Great multi room look at the week in geographic terms. 5 The Knights of Ren
The big reveal about the mysterious group in The Force Awakens. Overtime The creative habits of some great creatives (Einstein, Picasso, Mozart)
Woo Nellie - Olivia Munn was freakin awesome in The Newsroom. Wait, what? She'sPsylockein the new X-Men: Apocalypse movie? Let me through... 3 Work place dress codes Always a hot topic, this is a great article about the changing modes of dress for men and women at the coalface. 4 Star Wars holograms Cool idea, holograms carved into the grooves of the vinyl version of The Force Awakens soundtrack. Thanks to James for the heads up. 5 Three years of Unsplash Amazing images on Unsplash, as you know. This link takes you to a three year anniversary celebration. Overtime: Song of the week This insane version of Highway Star by Joe Satriani and the guys from Chickenfoot rocked the Purdmobile this week.
This lot were unpublished (Mon Dieu!). 2 It's all the same story I love Neil Young's comment to his audience on one of his live albums (Year Of The Horse from off the top of my head) that - it's all the same song! This article (a long read from the Atlantic) is in the same superb vein. 3 London!
I love London and I miss it. This site makes me miss it even more. Lost locations of London. You could search around London for years and years and never get bored! 4 London! Again!! In a similar vein - this Pinterest board called London Moments is grrrrrrreat!! 5 Wile E Coyote
Does Wile E Coyote help explain this crazy old world we all live and breathe in? Why yes, yes he does! Overtime: I love everything about squirrels
I'm a huge Tina Frey fan! This is a cool little piece about Sisters - new movie featuring the immensely talented dynamic duo of Tina and Amy Poehler. 2 Whatley in
James Watley's Five Things (TM) alerted me to this amazing collection of photos - part of a National Geographic competition. They are all brilliant and as he rightly says - well worth a look. The one I've chosen is bizarre - a wedding couple heading into the surf - did they know about the rays? Incredible image! 3 Adele
She's about to reconquer the world with third album 25. This is a great piece from The Guardian that gets things right - the interview, the tone, the picture of Adele. 4 Jake Bailey My Walrus Gumboot newspaper alerted me to this inspirational speech by CBHS Head Boy Jake Bailey who was diagnosed with cancer a few weeks before this prizegiving. It's obviously made more poignant because of that but he makes a great series of points that regardless, are worth hearing. How refreshing to hear a young guy allude to his moral compass. Wonderful! He's doing well apparently and if youtube love has anything to do with things - he'll continue to do well.
5 Star Wars makeover of Disneyland
The acquisition of Lucasfilm by Disney was bound to result in some amazingawesomeness at the happiest place on Earth. My wife and I will be there in December and I'm really looking forward to Hyperspace Mountain! Overtime: Glen Hansard Ever since Once, I've been a big fan. Here he is doing a cover of the Springsteen song (an obscure one from The River - half way upside four is pretty obscure). This Letterman Show version is without Eddie Vedder and Jake Clemons who appeared on the single but it's still full of Glen's wonderful soulful passion. Goodnight, and joy be with you all!
