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I almost posted “Israel is a US client state entirely propped up by American military funding without which it would cease to exist while also being the all powerful mastermind pulling all the strings in the US government which it controls completely” but I realized some of you really believe that

YouTube video by Dr. Nuno C. Sousa, Psychoanalyst The Cramps at the California State Mental Hospital in Napa - Concert 1978

If through some inexplicable lack of curiosity you have never seen the 20-minute video tape of the Cramps playing live to the inmates of the Napa State Mental Hospital, and you need something to restore your faith in humanity, press play on this. www.youtube.com/watch?v=-Jnk...

I’ve got a bit about this in my next book. The line is something like “I was packed off to a group CBT course where I left every weekly session with a pile of homework when I barely had the wherewithal to do my day job”. The absolute opposite of what I needed at the time!

From Hamas attack to U.S. war with Iran, violence forges a new Middle East An Iran-led order that long backed the likes of Hamas, Hezbollah and the Houthis – is gone. What will follow is one of the top questions of modern geopolitics.

Hamas leader Yahya Sinwar launched the Oct. 7 attack on Israel to transform the Middle East.

It did, on a scale comparable to the carving up of the Ottoman Empire a century ago — but not remotely in the ways Sinwar had in mind

The great Steve Hendrix reports from Jerusalem

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For the accomplishment of their divinely appointed mission, I believe. It’s an utter nightmare playing out in reality before our eyes.

In a time of daily horrors, this is truly one of the most chilling things I’ve seen in a long while.

There’s a relish in maximising death and terror here that would befit a comic book villain. But no, this is the US Secretary of Defense.

YouTube video by Lund Peterson Lou Reed Guess I'm Falling in love live

velvet underground researchers have apparently confirmed that this audio from a random youtube user is genuinely the long-lost july '67 performance from upbeat, a cleveland teen tv show, doing the unreleased "guess i'm falling in love" complete with screaming girls. www.youtube.com/watch?v=GU2U...

The cover of the 1958 Random House, New York edition of THE MAGIC BARREL by Bernard Malamud.

Hospital waiting room reading (or rather rereading, but it’s so long since I read it…)

Crocuses out at Blickling, North Norfolk

A drink at the Buckinghamshire Arms in Blickling, North Norfolk

Blickling Hall, North Norfolk

My last outing before an operation tomorrow that will leave me housebound for a couple of weeks — a wander around Blickling, sunshine, crocuses and Guinness Zero in a beer garden… heaven!

A copy of David Quantick’s excellent book on the Beatles’ White Album, which I actually have no intention of selling.

*heads straight to eBay and starts daydreaming about how to spend my newfound wealth*

Thank you, Lee! Lovely to hear from you.

Thanks, Mathew! This reminds me, I need to email you — will do so this afternoon.

Crocuses out at Blickling, North Norfolk

A drink at the Buckinghamshire Arms in Blickling, North Norfolk

Blickling Hall, North Norfolk

My last outing before an operation tomorrow that will leave me housebound for a couple of weeks — a wander around Blickling, sunshine, crocuses and Guinness Zero in a beer garden… heaven!

Russia soldiers tell BBC they saw fellow troops in Ukraine war executed on commanders' orders Four men expose the horror and brutality of conditions in the Ukraine war, with two saying they saw soldiers being shot for refusing orders.

Utterly grim reading but a valuable illustration of life in the Russian army four years into the war.

www.bbc.co.uk/news/article...

7" of Ken Parker - My Whole World Is Falling Down on Bamboo label. Released in 1969. Produced by Coxsone Dodd.

Remembering the late, great Ken Parker who was born on this day in 1948.

Few in Jamaican music had a voice as pure as Ken's. On this 1969 Studio 1 recording he turns a William Bell Stax tune into a reggae classic...

youtu.be/vNtJjdg9wG8?...

#reggae #reggaesky #vinylsky #vinyl #musicsky

Yes, this is well documented! Lots of articles online about Einstein’s time living in a hut on Roughton Heath. About 20 years ago I helped put up a blue plaque commemorating it on a nearby pub, but I’ve heard that it’s recently been removed.

Reading this beautifully written discussion of Kenneth Williams’ TV appearances in the 1980s is an excellent way to spend ten minutes on what would have been Williams’ 100th birthday.

More superb reporting in London Centric on the Aziz family, this time evicting hundreds of tenants from residential properties, which comes on top of dodgy tax evading gift shops, trying to close the Prince Charles Cinema etc – absolutely depressing that politicians can't do anything about this lot.

No, sorry David, I have an Ancestry subscription but it says I need to upgrade it to access that article. I’d suggest you take up the free trial, then cancel within seven days.

David, I’m just trying to see if I can access it for you via Ancestry.com, give me a couple of minutes…

You beat me to it by seconds!

Can any Blueskyers help? I'm trying to track down Gilbert Adair's 1988 obituary of Kenneth Williams which appeared (I think) in the Sunday Correspondent (of fond memeory), or possibly Independent on Sunday.

American Jews: hey, there’s a lot of antisemitism happening under the cover of pro-Palestine rhetoric and it’s increasingly hard to tell the difference between pro-Palestine people and actual Nazis

y’all: you’re just covering for Israel

Imagine living here, Nick.

Andrew Mountbatten-Windsor leaving Aylsham police station this evening. Photograph: Phil Noble/Reuters

Eighteen months since I moved to Aylsham and never again will I say that nothing ever happens here…

Talmud according to white supremacist: the guide book to Jewish world domination.
Talmud in real life: that guy from 300 years ago was a fucking dumbass. Here is why he is wrong.

“This week is all about me … Time to put something back into me before the rest of the world starts sucking it out in all their greed and demands.”

Plenty of time to yourself where you’re going, old boy, don’t you worry about that.

Talentless, yes, but don’t forget despicable, opportunistic and abusive too: all part of the Warburton brand.

It’s a tough life making a living in The Arts, you know.