Archie Valparaiso

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Does (v.)
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A BBC series about railway journeys in stylishly clashing pastel-shade jacket and trousers?

I'm in total agreement with yourself.

The "She Drives Me Crazy" snare drum lives!

Me watching Alto Knights:
"He's got the glasses on so he's Vito.... He's got the fake nose on, so he's Frank now." Two hours of that. Christ almighty.

Many happy returns, old fella! (Said he, aged 68.)

Did Epstein's chums never wonder why he (or one of his minions) was taking snaps of them hanging about in their Y-fronts or straddling a supine "inappropriate friend"?

Genesis = ponce rock. Try harder!

Cod rock, innit. (See also ELO, Meat Loaf, Kiss...)

Guaranteed a chillie reception.

And from the Civil War within only a century of the nation's founding, via the Indian wars, Klan lynchings, Kent State, the '60s assassinations, Mi Lai, Waco, OKC, Rodney King, Abu Ghraib to Minneapolis, with school shootings throughout, violence is a feature of American culture, not a bug.

9/10 Distressed metal.

We Can Wairk It Out
Get Bach
I Saw Hair Standingg Thur
#MoreScouseBeatles

O sea, "prestaciones principales/destacadas". Joé, soy inglés, pero hasta yo sé que traducir "key" como "clave" es un clásico Nadie Habla Así.

The UK's Labour Party feels seen. Fascism to the right of us, factionism to the left. It's the way of the world.

I too was struck by the pile-up of sentence-ending prepositions (SEPs) as I was reading the novel. The number of them made me wonder whether he'd dictated it rather than having typed it (he is 88, after all). When used in moderation, though, SEPs aren't something I'm particularly bothered, er, by.

He was 50 for "Hope of Deliverance". Not my favourite song of his by a long way, but I think most people know it.

Good shouts. How about WIllie Nelson's "Across the Borderline"? He was 60 when he wrote/recorded that.

Ride of the Val-KY-ries.

Relacionado: si vas a enumerar solo algunos elementos, no termines con etcétera o con tres puntos, a menos que sea evidente cómo sigue.

- El centro comercial cuenta con un supermercado, una pescadería, una parafarmacia, etcétera...

Y ¿qué? ¿Una peluquería de perros? ¿Una sucursal del BBVA?¿QUÉ?

Jeremy Clarkson?

DELIVER (v.) - perform a hepatectomy. #UxbridgeEnglishDictionary

Storm Kristin update: We've got a 100 kph hoolie blowing in the Cadiz area.

My Temu shed was carried 10 yards down the patio - with everything in it - before being flipped over. It's now an unrecognisable tangle of flimsy metal plates that took me hours and 248 screws to put together.

RIP.

I'm on Qobuz and the story there is much the same as you report for Apple Music: "The Mirror" is available, but only if you specifically search for it. It doesn't appear in the new or recommended country releases lists at all. It must be, as you suggest, the record company not promoting it at all.

It could also be part of the mainstreaming of once isolated genres like country and hiphop. Checking, I see that Martina had half a dozen US mainstream Top 40 hits, whereas Tammy Wynette only ever had one! And we know that any mainstream pop career lasting more than ten years is a rare thing indeed.

Trisha Yearwood: The Mirror (Deluxe)

The Country genre is awash with incredible voices. My own tastes always tend towards the great singers, and I have less time for the croaky, broken-voiced, or quirky "Americana" types. For example, I know that people absolutely love Lucinda Williams, whose…

I agree with all that. Queens of country used to have decades-long careers as A-listers (Tammy, Loretta...) but no longer. Another superb singer, who you mention, who faded away into practical obscurity much like Trisha is Martina McB. A feature of the popification of country: too old to be "hot"?

Reading the room has never been her forte.

There's nowt so daft as etcetc.

I don't know Juliette at all, but if I were looking for a transcription service, hers would be one I'd be calling. She had me at that correct possessive apostrophe after "years".