During 2013 I went for a bike ride with Mike Rowbotham up Mount Tamalpais. I'll never forget it! Great views (SF far to the distant right), great homemade lemonade and music at the top.
The first 'debate' analysed well by The Washington Post and Vox. Why do they persist in calling these food fights 'debates'? The NZ version was no debate either. Bizarre. 4 Marvel's 616
My wife and I were travelling on a train in to London last Saturday. I buy the Guardian and read it during the journey. I turned a page and gasped.
William Goldman had passed away. I've written one fan letter in my life so far and it was to William Goldman after I read his close to autobiographical novel The Color Of Light. I have read everything I could get my hands on over the years. Watched and collected his movies. Worshiped his style. He's a genius. A titan. 2 Forever Young - Bob Dylan “Forever Young, I wrote in Tucson, … I wrote it thinking about one of my boys and not wanting to be too sentimental. The lines came to me, they were done in a minute. I don’t know. Sometimes that’s what you’re given. You’re given something like that. You don’t know what it is exactly that you want but this is what comes. That’s how that song came out. I certainly didn’t intend to write it – I was going for something else, the song wrote itself – naw, you never know what you’re going to write. You never even know if you’re going to make another record, really.” 3 Blue Note covers. Yeah man. 4 Keepy Uppy - venue for footie activity criticised!
Hilarious!! Sounds a lot like school, doesn't it! The chamber for the House of Commons looks like a good spot to me. 5 Personalised Netflix thumbnails.
Overtime Yeah!! After a crunchy week at work I needed to read this before heading into the weekend - which is why I'm dispatching this bulletin early - before Friday goes to bed, Shock. Horror. Now read this and then have a great weekend!!
I have no idea why Thomas Oppong used that image for his piece on reducing brain fog, but he did. Something subtle at work I guess that escapes me right now. There's a whiff of inappropriateness to the image and that's unusual for Thomas. He always uses Unsplash free photos and they usually have something oblique to add to his piece. So this is odd. To balance it out I offer the final image to this week's JFTT edition. Anyway, his piece is good, so, yes, worth your time. Check it out here. 2 RIP Russ Solomon
Another week, and another hero down. Celebrate the life of Russ Solomon. Who is he? Read this. 3 Clever golden arches campaign
Here's the deal. 4 Lost in Space Netflix look like they got the mix right, even if the promo is too long. Less is more people!!
5 Quotenik I'm a quote fiend so I loved this repository! Love this quote of the day:
Be a good steward of your gifts. Protect your time. Feed your inner life. Avoid too much noise. Read good books, have good sentences in your ears. Be by yourself as often as you can. Walk. Take the phone off the hook. Work regular hours.
Fun look at the changing fashions for the trolley dol...er...cabin attendants from Air New Zealand. 2 Mike Woolgathering Sturm interview
I enjoy Mike's Woolgathering weekly newsletter (you can find a link to it here) and this interview was real and revealing. I like it that he's a real guy. 3 Yikes - Katie's story: broken dreams (and bones)
Human interest story - the flip side to medal success at the winter Olympics. 4 Lost In Space returns
As a kid I loved this original show. I have the reboot movie (it's pretty good actually) and I'm really looking forward to the new Netflix 10 episode reboot. 5 Emma Gonzalez She gets my vote - this powerful speech from a Florida student is worth your time. Incredibly Trump is calling for MORE guns and arming teachers. Have them kill the killers. Clearly he doesn't get it. And then there are these thought pieces by teachers: the best things I read about the Florida mass shooting part 1. And part 2. I'm a teacher. I can relate. Overtime: Family Of The Year
3 Do the evolution baby Movie trailers are how they have evolved. 4 Netflix Some great stats here on how the world watches via Netflix, like: the highest global re-watch record was set by an American who streamed Pirates of the Caribbean: The Curse of the Black Pearl 365 times in 2017. They tell some interesting stories about the evolution of watching stuff. 5 The last word on Star Wars: The Last Jedi for this edition
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