(0929) The morning proceeds. Had to kill some wildlife. (1042)

 

15. To be added to what we have

14. Reform honchos are out in force today

… spelling error on my part here:

13. Just to add to the drops

12. And whilst we’re on that demographic

11. This theme gets more and more weird

The day started for me with a look at reliable people, false prophets and bias which clouds judgement. As part of that, I ran Master Jack, by Four Jacks and a Jill, the Jill being Glenys Lynne … South African band.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Master_Jack

I intended it to be that … though we can learn from others to a point … at some stage, we have to start exploring more widely. Wiki says that too. However, there are other interpretations and mine has been an interpretation which has kept me mostly out of trouble through my own life.

But first, Glenys’s own interpretation:

Uh huh. Why is the Wiki in Afrikaans? Each member of that group has an English name. I also fail to understand white South Africans. Speaking with Chuckles, from N.O. days, I started speaking about the British or English there, as distinct from the Boer.

He almost jumped down my throat … I was not to call them Boer. Uh huh. And his lot were not English but English speaking South Africans. Right, right, whatever, Chuckles. I was starting to get the idea that Verwoerd etc. were mostly anti blacks but the English speaking were far more liberal. I could well have been wrong.

Onto the song. WN1 and I had a song, “Islands in the Stream” (Dolly and Kenny). Another song which has stayed with me because it’s very much my life, though I reject “desperado” or “drifter”, “just because I get around” is:

Interesting how Frey and Co were not particularly nice people and yet their songs were first rate.

Then onto Master Jack. Yes, well I’m not going to argue with Glenys, if that’s what she says, esp. as a former lover of mine was a Glenys … about walking away from a gold mine? Yeah, maybe … or maybe goldmine can mean that a girl has found an older mentor but now starts seeing a change. And that’s the interpretation I’ve gone with all my working life, esp. in Russia, where there are countless opportunities and a man must hold back … for everyone’s sake. It’s a great song for a man to keep with him as a reminder. Toodles wrote: “You behave just enough to keep out of trouble, but also have fun!” Uh huh.