Patrick Moore

No idea why, but Labyrinth lingered long in my psyche from seeing it one Saturday morning in a local cinema.

I much prefer ebooks for general reading - I don't have to handle crap lighting, I don't have to handle dodgy print quality etc .. Sure physical books are nice, and it's nicer to browse a bookshop, but yeah.

I just wish I could have a kindle oasis which supported libby/kindle/drm-free etc ...

The cross over we always needed!

the obsession with "retirement" as some sort of natural end state to a life of productive work is ridiculous, another symptom of millennial entitlement skewing public opinion. instead, consider taking "microretirements" throughout your career, perhaps between 12am-6am

Similar thing in music world.. people master on crap speakers, and if it sounds good there ...

But yes, if you're doing books/prints etc ... then calibrate away. If not, just relax.

1 Nurse: It’s become a real problem in this area 2 Nurse: We’ve seen the whole community lost to addiction 3 Show a building sign posted: Westminster ‘X’ Addiction Clinic With various Westminster people or looking at their phones outside it Nurse: Ministers, Spads, Researchers… 4 Nurse: Most mornings we’ll get a call about someone acting strangely [Nurse on phone taking a call] Ok - we’ll be right over 5 Nurse: We just have a gentle chat [Nurses approach a minister –Robert Jenrick? - standing in the Palace of Westminster Minister: I understand your concerns… 6 Nurse: Are you OK love? Minister: Yes I’m just hearing legitimate concerns from real voters 7 Nurse: That’s a robot, a Nazi and a poorly-disguised Russian [Show that the people he is talking to are precisely these characters] Nurse 2: Give us your phone, love 8 Nurse: At the clinic we put them in a Grass-Touching Pod, with a real voter to talk to [We see them back at the clinic, holding the minister's head and pushing him into a glass isolation booth with a grass floor. And it is a baffled looking woman, on a chair, ready to talk to him.] 9 Minister: YOU MUST BE WORRIED ABOUT THE COMING CIVIL WAR [woman looks baffled] 10 woman: I just want a bus service Minister: LOOK AT MY FLAG [produces a St George's flag] [ends]

The hole in a guitar is traditionally used to store soft cheeses and dried meats which are fed to the drummer when he does a good job

This has Alt text now, giving me an excuse to repost this glory again

club of all time by performing for Igor Stravinsky at Birdland. Alfred Appel tells it definitively in his book Jazz Modernism: From Ellington and Armstrong to Matisse and Joyce: The house was almost full, even before the opening set - Billy Taylor's piano trio - except for the conspicuous empty table to my right, which bore a RESERVED sign, unusual for Birdland. After the pianist finished his forty-five-minute set, a party of four men and a woman settled in at the table, rather clamorously, three waiters swooping in quickly to take their orders as a ripple of whispers and exclamations ran through Birdland at the sight of one of the men, Igor Stravinsky. He was a celebrity, and an icon to jazz fans because he sanctified modern jazz by composing Ebony Concerto for Woody Herman and his Orchestra (1946) - a Covarrubias "Impossible Interview" come true. As Parker's quintet walked onto the bandstand, trumpeter Red Rodney recognized Stravinsky, front and almost center. Rodney leaned over and told Parker, who did not look at Stravinsky. Parker immediately called the first number for his band, and, forgoing the customary greeting to the crowd, was off like a shot. At the sound of the opening notes, played in unison by trumpet and alto, a chill went up and down the back of my neck. They were playing "Koko, which, because of its epochal breakneck tempo - over three hundred beats per minute on the metronome - Parker never assayed before his second set, when he was sufficiently warmed up. Parker's phrases were flying as fluently as ever on this particular daunting "Koko." At the beginning of his second chorus he interpolated the opening of Stravinsky's Firebird Suite as though it had always been there, a perfect fit, and then sailed on with the rest of the number. Stravinsky roared with delight, pounding his glass on the table, the upward arc of the glass sending its liquor and ice cubes onto the people behind him, who threw up their hands or ducked. Parker didn't just happen to…

Stravinsky saw Charlie Parker play at Birdland

Joining the TUV if the Protocol bans Greggs vegan sausage rolls

Oh, the thread this is quoting is absolutely my jam. I love someone being so noisily wrong.

*drooool*

Ah, well, we do love Denmark. hmmm ... rugbrød. Will try! :D

Congratulations! Have lots of fun!

Damp. So damp... so miserably grimly damp.

Yeah... it's fucking terrifying. :|

Huuu... how could you not read it as a satire? It's Starship Troopers as a game ffs.

Oh entirely!

I think there is also this nihilism amongst those under, say 50, who missed out on final salary schemes, coupled with the past 20+ years of economic turmoil, that pensions aren't worth it.

as a young(ish) teen then it defined so much of my music taste, one way or the other. And Primal Scream's Rocks is still a glorious tune.

Various - Go Ape! View credits, reviews, tracks and shop for the 1994 CD release of "Go Ape!" on Discogs.

See... DKC is inextricably linked with this CD in my mind, and it was *good*: www.discogs.com/release/1481...

Worth repeating a million times.

Truly the end of an era...

the whole what

I meant to post this earlier in the school holidays but haven't had time cos I've been spending time with my kids

A comic on the bridge from Star Trek the Next Generation. Picard: COMMANDER DATA, PLEASE IDENTIFY THAT ROMULAN VESSEL. Data: THAT'S A GREAT IDEA CAPTAIN! IDENTIFYING A VESSEL IS A GREAT PLACE TO START - IN ANY TACTICAL OR STRATEGIC OUTER SPACE SITUATION. THIS VESSEL APPEARS TO BE A 23rd CENTURY KLINGON BIRD OF PREY! 🚀🦅✨ Picard: ARE YOU SURE? LIKE I SAID WE'RE... PRETTY SURE IT'S ROMULAN. Data: ... Data: OF COURSE! SO SORRY ABOUT THAT, YOU'RE RIGHT! ON CLOSER EXAMINATION IT'S A ROMULAN VESSEL! CAN I RECOMMEND SOME SOONG™ BRAND PRODUCTS THAT CAN HELP YOU WITH THAT? Picard cradles his face in his hand in a gesture of frustration. Data: DID I MENTION THE PLIGHT OF OPRESSED WHITES IN SOUTH AFRICA?

realistic Star Trek

Make a manhattan with amontillado rather than Rye (it's a Savoy Adonis) and it's one of the most delicious cocktails you can have. Especially with a good amontillado .

yes

What I mean is: the bigger the flag the weaker the union.

I use it for hot sauces and dried chillis, but they also have tinned tomatillos and chipotles in adobo and other stuff. And pre-made corn tortillas if you can't face making them.

Really decent select. And then, all the other dangerous stuff ...