Senses working overtime #181

1 The Princess bride

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?

Senses working overtime #160

1 Luke's reaction to Han's death

Great piece about a deleted scene from The Last Jedi (my co favourite Star Wars film Of All Time!

2 Poetry corner

At Night the Salmon Move

At night the salmon move
out from the river and into town.
They avoid places with names
like Foster's Freeze, A&W, Smiley's,
but swim close to the tract
homes on Wright Avenue where sometimes
in the early morning hours
you can hear them trying doorknobs
or bumping against Cable TV lines.
We wait up for them.
We leave our back windows open
and call out when we hear a splash.
Mornings are a disappointment.

Raymond Carver (1976)

3 More Star Wars: Solo

My expectations are not that high - I'm not a fan of 'young blah blah' stories (Indiana Jones, Butch and Sundance, Sherlock Holmes etc etc and so on) but this piece has piqued my interest levels somewhat.

4 Warren Ellis
Love his newsletters but he's gone dark for a spell to work on some ideas in his fevered brain. So here's a great picture of the great man to tide us over:

5 Robin Williams

After Margo, this gaze at Robin's last days is even more poignant. Once I started reading this I couldn't stop. Very sad ending!

Overtime: Seth Godin...

...on genius