Just about to load some politics, a bit thin today, when I fell asleep. Woke up and must have tapped a 60s sci-fi … bad, not even so bad, it’s good … tapped another (below) … oh yeah, landmark movie, this … you ain’t lived till you’ve watched this, bud (or budette). Comments thread:
Hi-brow … right … this is the film for us ! Meowww !
I’d pretty much ditched the other Van der Valk episodes for one reason or another, esp. the one YT keeps pushing and pushing in “recommended” and in the sidebar … if I avoided it and clicked on a different one … there, slap bang in the sidebar, was that unwanted episode I’d just refused to watch.
However, this one below I kept because the actress, Jane Merrow, had a certain something in her portrayal of a slapper once attached to a crime boss and the crime boss has just been released … plus VderV must have a regulation flirtation at some stage of the series, just as Morse had.
Their sort of character is so Two-Tier Woodenhead, romance wise, that it’s almost embarrassing … esp. as he has the stunning Joanna Dunham back home, as pure as the driven snow. Anyway, that’s the upside.
The downside is threefold … one is the copy itself, the visuals, the second is some toerag’s decision to blur the music, then remove small sections of dialogue, quite deliberately, somehow thinking that that complies with copyright. Not sure it’s the uploader as two separate uploads do the same thing.
The third irritating thing is VderV playing a piano bar piano at the start … it’s awful. And this despite his RL bio saying he was a dab hand at the ivories.
Were these things enough to walk away from in disgust? Well imho only … no … Jane Merrow’s not too bad and their dialogue, their repartee, is better than expected. Anyway, this is my last VderV for quite awhile.
In reply to Dearieme about the Ramblers, live or studio, I found this:
… but that was just the thumbnail and the song was on vinyl … so no, it does not answer the question.
Meanwhile, this below has been sitting in history a week or more … have no recall as to whether it was posted or not. If so, here tis again:
(0952) No IYE for a week … hols, could not get a comment through, hot on a trail or something else. Y’all have a good week now. (1012)
18. We could do with one of these
17. Buying a motorbike?
16. Needs to be stopped, at least in the US
15. It might be current
14. A good site for American politics
(0810) Morning all … sunny out there, through the Gates billowing cloud. (0839)
13. Good number for this item
Need to preface this with some comments about things like Life of Brian … as people, the Pythons were certainly non-Christian but the points made about anomalies in organised religion were well made I thought, plus it did not step into what most would call outright blasphemy … it was having a go at Churchism, Synodism, rather than at the faith itself … it was having a go at Schism, false prophets, not following one’s precepts one’s paid lip service to … and so do these below:
12. Three quickies
11. Points about punditry
Just thought I’d drop this one in from this early morning:
Anything vital in there? The spam count really … this is fairly typical for this time of day, it will build again later … not sure why they bother.
Not totally sure what their feasibility is … it’s the Geelong, Oz regional rag … maybe half a million people, so not nothing for sure but … well … why exactly would you pay $7 per week or whatever for a local rag? Ads? Hatch, match and dispatch notices? Or you think the the Wokeleft politics is worth it? Puzzled.
Plus … who can afford subs to maybe half a dozen publications, inc. nationals? Given the economic situation?
Now to one of their headlines today:
So, it’s not just Britain and European nations, is it? This thing is global in scope, a cunning plan.
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10. Moosh corner
9. TDS today
JH: The Joan of Arc one is the most sickening of those to me. As for TDS and TCW, sadly, the latter no longer sends newsletters, either in Ms Gyngell’s wisdom or else it’s a blanket policy at her site now. I’ll check this out at some stage.
8. This one’s about nasty pieces of work
… disguised as good MAGAs to a point … insinuating themselves into positions of influence or else the machine insinuates them in … they make MAGA noises in general terms but at crucial votes, the Rand Paul cloven hoof appears. The ones who should be policing this are Chairman Whately and/or Johnson and Thune … naturally they fail just short of being thrown out. Plus voters are truly easily gulled, just as Reform’s are here now.
7. Gab can be described as
… 80% dross, 20% pure gold … it often runs scoops which may or may not be … or it revisits old material, e.g. from the early 2000s and any alt pundit worth his salt will include it on his rounds. Such as this from Dutch Jim:
This about Gary is in the Seth grouping of issues to a point, though Seth had been doing wrong and knew the Clint skeletons … Gary found out, as one of the last real investigative journos and it was well put above by Jim.
6. Steve at 1014 Monday morn
5. DAD at 1014 Monday morn
a) The Left has a long, storied tradition of staring reality squarely in the face and refusing to believe their lying eyes. And nowhere is this more evident than the Left’s defence of multiculturalism—a project so disastrous that even its architects have admitted it to be dead.
b) Ursula von Der Leyen’s European Commission paid Millions to ‘environmental associations’ for targeted campaigns to smear political opponents and dissenting voices.
c) People smugglers are turning to Chinese and Vietnamese encrypted apps to get small boat migrants across the Channel, head of Britain’s FBI warns.
d) Yesterday Marine Le Pen and her party held a rally in Paris.