(1657) Almost evening all.
16. She’s been consistent
… it’s not been jumping on a bandwagon.
15. Moo corner
14. Eyes wide shut
13. Govt to control youtube for our benefit
12. Free school milk
11. Running scared, hiding away
Wanted something more than official gun salutes and formal celebrations … wanted some real Americana as a 70s boy might have experienced it … the feeling of total freedom … so hard to get across to people today.
But also wanted it reacted to by a younger person who nonetheless got all the jokes. There were two very good black reactors I often watch … they got the groove the band laid down, start to finish, they got the synth, they could not understand the singer … whereas this reactor could … coz he’s a different demographic.
It’s a bit like some mates trying to play some garage music … yep, the groove’s great, the singer speaks his set of available lyrics, then has to think what to say after that … quite humorous, quite amateurish … garage … I love it … a bit like solos in the Sunday jazz, not knowing what’s coming next … so they invent something.
It’s carried by the band and the singer’s obsession with night trips on the highway … I remember them well. In SoCal on t’other coast, I did just this in my Sunbird convertible, down by Oceanside, wind through the balding pate under the cap … it was so FREE, so full of possibilities, meet some girl, met six.
The reactor, already being part of the demographic, different generation, just smiles at the different things pulled by the band. I’m thinking this video is a tribute to what America once was. But more than that, it’s so me, Jimbo tearing down the highway to the groove, gal or mate minding the cassette player … always the core groove, the pulse of life.
Great music in a classical sense? Hell no … but as a slice of 70s Americana … perfect I’d say. Anyway, it’s my tribute to America on this day.
It’s a noir and took some finding … there really was not a great choice today. This seems to be ok.
(1134) Have a good elevenses. I’ve rewritten the “For newer readers” opener under the sidebar pic. (1228)
10. Moo corner
9. John Cleese corner
8. Jimbo corner
7. No truer words
6. IYE corner at NOWP
a. ”Venezuela Kicks Out Clinton Foundation For Trafficking Children Amid Earthquake Chaos”
https://www.booksbehindborders.org/p/venezuela-clinton-foundation-child-trafficking
b. ”A federal judge in Texas called a protest outside an ICE facility “an assault on democracy,” then handed nine demonstrators 30 to 100 years in prison.
The charge was terrorism. The theory was that they were an “antifa cell.” An officer was shot that night and survived. Prosecutors called the whole thing a premeditated attack. The defense called it a protest.
This is the first case built on the new presidential memo labeling antifa a “domestic terrorist organization.” The template exists now. They’ll use it again….but on Data Center / AI protests.
Details below:”
https://substack.com/@theleahfiles/note/c-287476780
Precedent set to be abused by corrupt judges. Allegedly.
… which eventually became Streamline Moderne. Whilst in music, my era is early to late Baroque, esp. in chamber music, using basso-continuo … in art, imho, surrealism, art deco and streamline can’t be bettered … not to mention ladies’ and gents’ fashions.
Sadly, this short doc suffers from that egregious American habit of trying to drown out the narration with ugly noise, seen by the uploader, somehow, as “mood music”. Nice looking though with the sound turned off.
(0716) Morning all … US Anniversary … other than that, not a lot newsworthy this morning. (0851)
5. Lord T sends
No url, sorry readers. I’d no way say Lord T is tech-challenged, not at all (he’d cybernetically punish me if I suggested that) … it’s just that he’s a “backend” techie and I’m a “frontend” user … that’s all it is. 😎
4. Steve at 1430
3. Sent by Toodles
2. DAD at 1430
a) Video shows white Teen arrested after attack as three black men [who attacked him] walk away. Birmingham Police have defended an officer’s actions….
b) AfD leader vows to restore German-Russian ties when she becomes Chancellor….
c) Iran shuns European leaders at Khamenei state funeral….
d) The UN’s selective silence betrays Women again. For decades, the United Nations has presented itself as the world’s foremost institutional defender of women against violence, war, and oppression. That claim has now been tested—and found wanting.
dd) Andy Burnhan’s involvement in the Police ‘Operation Hexagon’ into Grooming Gangs in Manchester, and the silence thereafter.
All right, readers, going with this one today, a more political roundup on Sunday, ok?
America 250 on July 4th. Anyone reading the real history knows it was probably just meant to happen. To American cousins, bros and sisses … celebrate, guys! (Pic American Museum & Gardens)
Pic from American Museum and gardens
(1615) Afternoon all.
13. AKH writes of modern govt
“the absurdly wasteful, spendthrift nature of modern government, the swamp of waste, fraud, incompetence, malinvestment, patronage networks, worthless quangos and NGOs, costly political favours, disastrously expensive energy policies, the wasteful expansion of university courses and so on”
|https://akhaart.blogspot.com/2026/07/an-engineered-assumption.html
12. Toodles and that egg custard ice cream
“IYE mentioned egg custard ice cream. I know it well.
egg custard base — yes, I grew up with that. After the custard was cooked (boiled custard and do be careful not to scald) it was poured into a metal canister which was then placed inside a wooden crate and packed with ice and rock salt. The crank would be put in place and churning would then commence.
Oh, as I recall old terri towels/ cloths were placed somewhere and maybe old newspapers ( remember them) were placed underneath because of the wet. Humid here in middle of summer.
All the children wanted to participate in the manual cranking to churn up the eagerly anticipated ice cream. It usually was left to the boys because really after a few cranks enough was enough for my sister and me.
Eventually, we got the electric models. Still a mess, but well worth the efforts and the less effort to. Ultimately my daddy and later Cuddles was really in charge of the operation.
After the custard cooked my mother sometimes put ripe peaches in it because my dad loved peach ice cream. Also, by doing that the almost too ripe fruit wouldn’t go to waste.
Freestone Chilton County peaches are even better than Georgia peaches which are spectacular. Chilton County’s are the ultimate 🍑 just as Videllia onions from Georgia are the yummiest of yellow onions! Silver Queen corn from Baldwin County is hands down the best people-eating-corn, as opposed to horse corn there is even though I am allergic.
Summertime corn is the best along with homegrown tomatoes which are so good together on the same plate. If you don’t have homegrown then the FL panhandle is known to grow juicy flavorful tomatoes.
Watermelon from over Grand Bay as cold as you can get it is, well, it is grand. A little seed spitting to add to the fun is well — it’s just great fun!
A few years ago we bought a similar type of model you have IYE. Before we even opened it I had to grab for a gift! It was wrapped and placed into the delighted hands of the receiver. I might just have to get another!
Andy,‘coconut ice sweet, it wasn’t soft like ice cream or frozen like a lollipop’
Well Andy ole chap! My dearest Cuddles would grin with delight for the 1930’s coconut concoction! The man is not one who grins much, but coconut brings it on. It is fun to be the one to get that going on his darling face!
Andy said:
‘All of that makes this place better that the best glossy magazine’
That is exactly how I have described the blog to my friends! They know you all by name and your general personalities!”
11. The L1 A1 SLR
Steve at 1430:1. Also at 1430:
Hearts of Oak: Orla Minihane -The Pink Ladies: How Mothers Turned Migrant Hotel Protests Into a Nationwide Movement
10. Moo corner
9. A Redwood double
8. National rally hit
7. Dr. Rachel Nicoll at Lord Toby’s site
“This is a story about a medical inquest in a coroner’s court. They happen every day of the week. But this one has the potential to blow the whole of the end-of-life written and unwritten policy out of the water.
So far there have been three separate hearings for this inquest: in March, August and December 2025, and it’s not over yet.
Derek Dimmock, aged 86, was admitted to Royal Trinity Hospice in south London, on June 6th 2020 for gout treatment. Nevertheless, within three hours, a hospice doctor had assessed that he was “in the process of dying” and put him on a syringe driver (necessary for delivering intravenous drugs) and prescribed end-of-life drugs, including midazolam, alfentanil (for short-term pain relief) and oxycodone, a strong opioid.
Derek Dimmock quickly became comatose and died the following day.”
I’ll attempt to put another film or item up mid afternoon, no promises. Enjoy your elevenses.
(0903) Nearing have to go time. Best to y’all, with my prayers. No good memes on X, as hoped for, so have to use one of our older screenshots: (1109)
The post which was here has not gone, it’s been retired to one of our outposts.