(1045) Just what have I been doing for an hour and a half? See Thurs 11 for the clickbait answer. Afternoon all. (1206)

 

15. Yes please

14. Of these at TDS today

… the one I’ll follow up first is the Archbish item.

13. The woman they’re shutting out of power

12. Hitting the cartels

11. 2-31-24

Oh such mystique in three numbers, ra ra ra, yeah yeah, op ed, housekeeping.

I was once called a drifter by a guy in reference to his girl but let’s not dwell on that. My defence was that we often try our darndest to achieve something and are stymied. For example, some once said try, try and try again. WC Fields added, “Then quit, no point being a darned fool about it.”

More accurate, to my mind, is that there are some things which are going to fall into place, some that aren’t. If they do, carpe diem is the strategy, but that requires eternal biblical vigilance, which in yutn lays one open to charges of opportunism.

I’m thinking that not seizing a chance to do right is a crime in itself, as Edmund Burke might say. That’s quite different to opportunism with no moral compass. Take our current societal malaise, engineered that way. Svali said, in 2000, that these people make mistakes. Carpe diem.

I might add … eternal biblical vigilance … yes, that did mean keeping ourselves in order, our noses clean, our powder dry, prepared to act in a moment … but in reference to the return of the Lord … whereas I’m using it to mean to take opportunities laid upon our table.

Our more active readers might add … we make our own opportunities, we carve our own way through the mountains … yes, agreed. Our strategy needs to be a mix of all of those, methinks, a blend of approaches, holding onto universal truisms, always with the mindset we have here, also with some sort of rediscovered moral compass … yes, all of those, as my dear mum used to say.

What’s all that to do with 2-31-24? The 2 is the number of films or episodes which turned up to run as matinees, the 31 is the number of sshots gathered this morning for the regular items, having run out last night … the 24 is something which just finished ten minutes ago.

My cunning plan this morning was to do this and that job, make that ohone call, call MMutR, cook, prepare etc. etc.

What I did instead was see a mass of YT recommendations, all at the one time, and from experience, they are ephemeral … they disappear as fast as they appear. So I had to strike, to save, right now, nit an hour from now.

They include items from brilliant to rare to par for the course. I deleted 2 of em but the 24 remaining will tide us over for our short feature slots for some time … each had its points of great interest. What chance eh?