Look at the way this guy is holding this precious record!! Wrong Wrong Wrong!!!! The rest of it is pretty accurate though. 2 The Girls
I've just finished this novel which contains characters who replicate the Manson Family and events that happened in 1969 (that's when the novel is set as well). Having read Helter Skelter years ago and been old enough to remember the court case, I have a grim fascination with the story. Co-incidentally, while in a doctor's surgery waiting for my wife, I read an article in one of those dreadful women's magazines, about the remaining members who are still getting refused parole. 3 Eat Pray Love
Just started reading this book and...it's really good. Like millions before me, I like the too sensitive, high maintenance, erudite Elizabeth! 4 Disco era's12 inch singles 5 Avengers: Endgame
Looking forward to this one, it's getting good re-release reviews, even though the 3 hour running time is daunting! Overtime:Stephen Fry's Brexit videos
That means the interweb piles up unread and unacknowledged. Instead a steady diet of Brexit catastrophe on the BBC nightly news has been the order of the day. 2 Pointless
This precedes the BBC 6 o'clock and we've become addicted. Zander and Richard are a great comedy duo! 3 The Tattooist of Auschwitz
by Heather Morris has been my current book. Truthfully, I haven't had much of an opportunity for sustained reading so I've dipped into it over the week. Hopefully I'll be able to get into it more next week. Given it's the last week of the term that's unlikely but I live in hope. 4 Alan Parsons Project
I picked up a couple of APP records from Chaldon Books and Records a few weeks ago and these have been steady support this week. Specifically Pyramid and Tales of Mystery and Imagination. 5 Sexist advertising to be banned!
The Guardian ran this news item during the week about sexual stereotypes used to sell products, with some vintage ads that made me wonder what kind of world I'm living in these days. Overtime Endgames There are a couple of Marvel products to look forward to: Captain Marvel and the latest of TheAvengers mega movies.
I love this shot of my wife (on the right) and eldest daughter (driving on the left) as we travelled the 101 from San Francisco down to LA. The open road, donuts (the food in case you were wondering) along the way, the beautiful pacific coastline, great company. Magic. I see it a lot as it's my banner picture on my Facebook page.
Every time I see it when I open Facebook I think about that trip (start of 2017) and smile.
2 This little video gives a sense of that road trip.
3 To infinity and...how did that go again? New Avengers movie -Infinity Waris about to drop from the skies like Thor and his hammer of the gods coming from Asgard to save us pesky humans!! Yerrrrrrr boy! 4 I am like a bird, I'll only fly away. Great poem: from The Language of the Birds
A man saw a bird and found him beautiful. The bird had a song inside him, and
feathers. Sometimes the man felt like the bird and sometimes the man felt like
a stone—solid, inevitable—but mostly he felt like a bird, or that there was a
bird inside him, or that something inside him was like a bird fluttering. This
went on for a long time.
Richard Siken (2014) 5 Mad Men
Our viewing pleasure has centred around a return to Mad Men this week. And when I say 'our' I am including my wife under false pretenses. Allow me to explain... I love Mad Men and have all the box sets from when box sets were the only way to view whole series. Now we have Netflix. We'd temporarily run out of shows we both love. So I suggested we try Mad Men again (I made an attempt last year but we didn't get beyond season 1, episode 1). I knew if we got into a routine that the rhythm of our nights would take over eventually and the characters would emerge from the smokey haze (neither of us have ever been smokers or drinkers so it takes some time to desensitise ourselves to the rampant smoking and drinking going on). So far so good. We've watched about 8 episodes of season 1 and the complaints are dwindling. I feel she'll get hooked soon if I'm persistent! Stay on target! Extra Texture - Blackberry Smoke Speaking of smoking - these guys are hot! I played this over and over again this week when it came on the car ipod.
I started to skim but quickly settled in to read the whole damned thing. Oddly compelling and fascinating. But I do have a thing for Winston Churchill and how he saved us all, so I guess it was inevitable. 4 Infinity War
New Avengers movie and the promo is full of promise. Stay with it to the end too - I smiled! 5 Twenty-six words we don't want to lose
Great article from The Guardian (where else?) on some spectacular words that I need to drop into the conversation. Frinstance: I'm especially looking forward to some frowst this Sunday morning! Overtime: And so this is Christmas
Great antidote to all that saccharine piped Christmas muzak in department stores as November turns to December (first day of summer in Nu Zild) - both this article and Vince Guaraldi’s cool jazz.
Isn't it grand to get something for free. No hitches. No fine print. Try Visualhunt. This is a great site for free images. 2 The Avengers are back...well, not yet...but soon Oooooeee - This looks like being grrrrrrreat!
3 Poor Melania Trump
Apparently she feels 'very, very strongly about women’s issues, women’s difficulties. Very, very strongly. She’s a very, very strong advocate' (guess who)
This piece from the New Yorker is hilarious!! Try this taster: It doesn’t matter if you are a Democrat or a Republican or a neo-fascist’s Stepford wife: period cramps feel like something stabbing its way out of your uterus. 4 How Jimmy met Robert Great piece about the nascent relationship between Page and Plant. 5 Star Wars toys
Hasbro is tapping in to the 40th anniversary of Episode 4 in an awesome way. Overtime The world's rarest film? Not any more!
1 Oh baby, baby This is so well written, it's scary! Humans are really smart, so why are human babies so utterly vulnerable? Huh? Answer me that!!
...oh - you have! 2 Ageism Hmmm - I'm about to turn 59 in a few weeks time and I seem to be suffering a little from this. Although I'm 19 inside I'm starting to feel like I'm fighting perceptions of what 59 year olds are supposed to be like. 3 Tina Fey in WTF I love Tina Fey! And although this movie does not look like it'll trouble Mulholland Drive as the best film of the century so far, erm, I'll still wanna see it! 4 Comic book font Why do they all look the same? Here's the answer!
5 Trump time line Great infographic from the New York Times shows when Republicans wisely started ditching Trump. It's a wonder the list isn't longer!! Shame upon shame. Overtime - The Avengers as a sit-com
