Here Come the Warm Jets

Australia’s first formal treaty with Indigenous traditional owners passed in Victoria Step towards reconciliation hailed as ‘a historic moment’ with premier Jacinta Allan saying it gives Aboriginal Australians the power to shape policies that affect their lives

There’s a kicker in the final two paragraphs.

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Russian army chiefs torturing and executing soldiers who refuse to fight in Ukraine, report says Investigation lists 101 superiors accused of tactics such as using drones to ‘finish’ off retreating troops and sending soldiers on death missions

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YouTube video by 0ldfinger America is waiting - David Byrne & Brian Eno

“America is Waiting” [1981; d. Bruce Conner; music: Brian Eno and David Byrne]

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Lady Splurtington of Crosspaws: My daughter; my sweet angel; my wee tiger shrimp; my whole heart. ♥️

YouTube video by Ichbinauchhier43 801 Live - Lagrima / T.N.K. (Tomorrow Never Knows)

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I’m such a huge fan of John Cale that I bought a ticket to this a while ago on the off chance that a bucket of money would magically appear between now and this weekend.

Going to break from this vehicle for the entirety of November.

The metaphoric house is on fire, and I need to focus on my long-desired goal of starting with a clean slate a long, long way away from what has always been a deeply unhappy locale for me.

(Exclusive.) Bari Weiss this week clocks up four weeks on the job as chief booker (sorry, editor-in-chief) of CBS News. Breaker hears that she has unimpressed staffers with a series of bold ideas in the 9 am call. Last week, following the jewel heist at The Louvre, Weiss suggested they interview author Dan Brown. Staffers questioned what expertise in the matter Brown would provide CBS News viewers? Brown is well known as the bestselling author of the 2003 mystery novel, The Da Vinci Code, about a murder at The Louvre. On Tuesday’s 9 am call, Weiss suggested a story about how people who are scared of climate change aren’t having children. “She is showing her worst self,” one CBS News journalist told Breaker. “People are running to avoid her.”

Lmao what (from today's Breaker newsletter)

YouTube video by Mark 1333 Timothy West & Prunella Scales - 60 years of marriage (interview) (UK) 15/Nov/2023

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Gym “Look the Other Way” Jordan belongs in gaol.

How the Dodger baseball stadium shaped LA – and revealed its divisions When the Dodgers moved to Los Angeles 60 years ago, the construction of their stadium was meant to forge the city’s rise to modernity. Instead it provoked a racially charged battle of eviction and pro...

Another reason I’ve always loathed the LA Dodgers:

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Apparently, this lunatic post from the gilded fascist is real.

Also: “my” ballroom? Not “his” House to begin with.

I’ve been saying for two years now that the Oilers should offload this backend waste, but then they went ahead and overpaid him.

YouTube video by Multi-Channel Music Miles Davis - Sivad [4.0 Quad Surround Sound]

RIP, the truly great Jack DeJohnette.

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Episodes of The Twilight Zone showing overnight on City!

Turned on the Criterion Channel stream on returning home, and this Jack Bond-directed feature from 1988 is showing.

It’s really quite a lovely and charming piece of work.

YouTube video by Bill McClintock Foreigner and Stevie Wonder - “Ice Cold Ground”

Listening to my iPod on the train up to Allandale Waterfront – calling derby in Alliston this afternoon – and I’ve been pleasantly surprised to realize that years ago I downloaded the audio of some of Bill McClintock’s best mashes of the day and made an album out of them.

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Lest we all get too giddy about Doug Ford’s clever tariff broadsides against Emperor Tang, remember that Dougie’s primary motivations are:

1. To exert outsized and rogue/proxy influence/pressure over the PMO.

2. To distract from his own boatload of corruption and cronyism.

YouTube video by Bigfoot UK MOLOCH - Devil Take Me (1982) (HQ Audio)

That’s some massively expensive recording studio time just to try and off your talent, Mr. Marshall.

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Via @mollyjongfast.bsky.social

Canadian Press interviews Geddy Lee about the Jays as they head into the World Series, and I’m in full agreement with him on this point.

Leafs games are the worst for this sort of sonic pummelling. It doesn’t enhance the game; it ruins it.

I don’t have many CDs or LPs left since the great purge of 2013, but I’m glad I kept this box set.

I remember Don’s television commercials for Gioia Spaghetti!

The East Wing has learned its lesson.

by Susan Collins

I don’t know if Eleanor Roosevelt is able to smite anyone – or even if she’d want to if she had the capability – but if she’s able to convince a crack smite team wherever she is to issue several backhands and haymakers to the ghouls behind this East Wing ballroom grotesquerie, I’d appreciate it.

YouTube video by Letterman Norm MacDonald's Final Stand-Up Performance On Letterman

I like to go back to this from time to time.

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When I moved on as venue announcer for Toronto Roller Derby in 2012 after six years – it was incorrectly assumed to be retirement; I’d”m still going strong with NCRD in Sudbury – incoming ToRD announcer Mr. Whistler put together a lovely tribute video.

Plastik Patrik in Montréal remains my fave.

YouTube video by Ras Putin kraftwerk - Autobahn midnight special (us tv 1975)

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Saw this on Reddit and it warmed my heart.

Die Große Halle von Albert Speer ist im Chat erschienen.