(1431) This is Saturday [11] (1432)

Just as the steak is ready, and the greens, so I’m taking an inordinate amount of time over the tatties, coz I want them “just so”. Not large roasties, not diced, not chipped, not in oil but in butter and in half-slices … 2D tatties, done just so.

Just as those meals … steak, salmon, are worth the time and effort, just as a good woman is worth that time and effort, so this song must be just so and the way to that is slower slower slower.

And a thought suddenly entered the head (to keep the other thought company) … there’s a guy (American, so I can use the word “guy”) named Just-in Pettry, with a youtube channel (look him up or see below) and he does fave-song instrumentals. There are many (maybe 80%) I go straight past, skip over, but the 20% of my sort of song from the 50s to maybe the 90s, include gems such as:

• Evil ways
• On the road (Canned Heat)
• Louie Louie
• The night they drove old dixie down
• Ain’t got no home
• Little Latin Lupe Lu
• Running on empty
• Hair of the dog
• Feelin’ alright (Cocker)
• Do it again (Steely Dan, plus Beach Boys)
• Jet airliner
• 30 days in the hole (Humble Pie)
• Guess it doesn’t matter any more (Linda, Buddy)
• Gimme some lovin’ (Sutton Coldfield lads)
• Sharp dressed man
• Rock n Roll (Zep)
• Before the deluge

I was going to add Abracadabra but it’s occult, also The Joker but it has that wolf whistling … and sometimes the album cover itself was the killer … for example, the horrible pic of Joe Cockair in his death throes … pity, coz it has a great groove.

Sometimes, the instrumental version lent itself to someone else’s lyrics far better than the full version did … sometimes the opposite. So this selection biz ain’t easy … so many factors.

For example, if it’s going to be my statement to the world, it really must relate to my life in some way, past, present and future … so Jet airliner and Ain’t got no home are perfect for me, while Evil ways is a good look at present and future me, as in, “Gotta stop them … now!” Plus the music is great (Santana).

Then there are you chaps and chapesses, plus those behind the scenes … it has to be listenable to most (maybe not DAD, a baroque man). It can’t be about wimmin per se … it needs to be more about life in general. So you can maybe see that this is a yuge ask … but worth it if it works.

And of course … why blog on something so personal at all? That’s easy … to give readers ideas if they’ve not already had them. You could do this for yourselves you see. And we could even run them at UHC-WP, as posts.

Here’s one I might not use because of its smokin’ connotations. I took it up at 11, gave it up at 13. The other type of smokin’ was during that narrow window of student days when even being in the union building had everyone high.

 

For elevenses … is this one of those “so bad, it’s good”?

(0936)(1114)

 

10. Moo corner

9. Women abusing their rights

8. This girl was one from Rupert and Sammy’s rape gang inquiry

… and I feel honoured that she trusts enough to reply. She’s just one reason to stay on X supporting those we do. I believe we must do these things daily, as long as we have the eyesight and strength.

Resoundingly no. Those close to me know of my own threat early September which might derail me entirely. A good time to put trust in Someone in three persons Upstairs.

7. For at least some of us

… this is a major worry. Deryl keeps herself in trim, walks her dogs every day, supergran she is … and she does not trust the medical profession at all. Ditto here. Her situation is close to mine.

6. There’s a danger

… in saying “there’s a danger in trying to be that which one is not” (ouch) because we all have skeletons and if not, why not? Did you grow up in a box?

I’m talking age here though. Silly old duffers who think they still have it … whoa eh, whoa … are not growing old disgracefully, they’re not Dylan Thomasing, raging into that good night … nope, they’re being blind, might I say embarrassing? Like ageing footballers or cricketers on tele … or catcallers of young women.

It’s silly and … yes … embarrassing. While I was in Sicily … and again in Tenerife … I saw two chaps “of an age” and tell you what … they were well turned out, had looked after themselves, seemed happily married for mine but had escaped for awhile … and I thought at the time … I’d like to end up a bit like them … they were clearly what they were, no more, no less … but nonetheless would have been good conversation, if I’d spoken those languages better. Clean and tidy.

One did come up to me after a dance with my Russian lass, that one where I’d put the long stem rose between the teeth and strutted up and down with her like Gomez with Carolyn Jones … and he’d loved the dance. Weeellllll, “A” enhanced any dance but it was still nice … and that Spanish retiree would be a catch for any gal over fifty, maybe even younger.

Which is a longwinded way of saying something I was thinking at 0931 this morn, it now being 0951:

“Am dropping the song Temptation as a song about myself (remember yesterday’s post)? Great 80s song but slightly too young man for me … would have been good at 40 years, even 50.  On the other hand, I don’t want doom and gloom.  But something with deep raunch, a groove, e.g. Do It Again, Steely Dan.  Maybe not exactly those ones.  Beach Boys, same song name, is good but they’re too pretty boy for me. I’m in no hurry.  Though my eventual epitaph stays in mind: “He just ran out of time.”

So I’m going through songs which also have instrumental backing versions and will use one of those. All right, confession time … the prob with the New Order song was that it required singing too fast for me to get the words out … yikes! How embarrassing. And as for all the ooh-ooh-oohing … ? Oh dear.

So, back to the drawing board and remember that adage … slower slower slower, not faster faster faster.

 

(0750) Morning all. Good sleep, that was. Hope same for you. (0816)

 

5. Steve at 1471

• Elon Calls for Derek Chauvin to Be Freed After Being ‘Unjustly Convicted of Murder’
• Clerk Calls On DOJ To Help Get Non-Citizens Off His Voter Rolls After Sec of State Whistleblower Claims MI SOS Benson is Automatically Registering Them To Vote
• Parents Sue California School District Over Field Trip to Mosque, Claim it Was ‘Religious Indoctrination’
• US Ambassador to Belgium Slams Ghent University’s Retaliation Against American Whistleblower Who Exposed Academic Fraud
• Iran Is Planning To Take The War To Europ
• US Military Just Changed Everything In The Strait Of Hormuz
• Berry Compound Linked to 26% Lower Cardiovascular Risk, Meta-Analysis Finds
• Nattokinase: The Holy Grail of COVID vaccine detoxification
• Much more.

4. Internal hit job on alt-journo

3. DAD at 1471

a) French PM: Few Ministries Meet Cyber Standards After Hacks. French Prime Minister Sébastien Lecornu has admitted most government ministries fail basic cybersecurity standards after breaches compromised hundreds of thousands of citizens’ sensitive data.

b) Germany. CDU mayor donates €10,000 to the AfD and urges conservatives to vote for it….

c) Migrant who raped sleeping woman wins right to remain in UK after launching ‘human rights’ appeal. The Tories’ Shadow Home Secretary Chris Philp said: ‘It is utterly repulsive this rapist is allowed to stay in the UK….

d) This is what “ALWAYS” happens before a Currency Reset.

2. Famous refuseniki

(0333) Great time to start, chaps and chapesses … back to bed after this … hopefully for a few hours. (0411)

 

Could we just have a bit of privacy, please?

Guido announces:

We simply ask that that privacy we’ve been so constantly campaigning for, worldwide will be respected and all you lowlife journos will go take a running jump.

|https://dailysceptic.org/2026/08/21/prince-harry-and-fellow-claimants-must-pay-9-5-million-to-mail-after-judge-rules-hacking-case-was-unreasonable-to-a-high-degree/

(1607) Almost evening.

 

Back to the current 24. “Modern” women

……

The earlier 15. Folic bloody acid

The earlier 14. More of the same

The earlier 13. Time for the army I think

……

23. Fido makes his debut

(JH: Fido? 🤔)

“ A Ukrainian man was arrested Wednesday in Croatia in relation to undersea explosions that damaged the Nord Stream gas pipelines between Russia and Germany in 2022, Germany’s federal prosecutor said….”

https://nypost.com/2026/08/19/world-news/ukrainian-national-arrested-over-nord-stream-gas-pipeline-blasts

22. The answer to the question further down the page

21. By the way, when our chaps send X urls

… they are fairly dead for readers unless on X:

At the same time, in comments, X does not expand, so it’s on me to open and screenshoot salient parts. There is one other way … our dropper copies text and pastes in comments. One to ponder.

20. Think this was Steve

All right, we know what’s happening and even that it’s all planned, aided and abetted by Them … and that Them are trying, by hook or by crook, to get a civil war going, whilst killing us by other means.

And any who dare stand up or even hit back are arrested, until many normies feel the pinch themselves. Only then will they attempt to rise against mikitary aged young thugs in every town and village.

And where is the army? Thus we’re talking actual house to house slaughter. Here. Within what was once Britain.

No one’s yet risen and rallied behind Rupert … maybe 6% would at this point. Farage is a busted flush. So what’s the solution?

19. Moo corner

18. The question is NOT so much spot the error

… but rather spot the error I make more and more these days:

Yes, the “n” or “m” between the “I” and “have”, same error I’ve been making, plus i, o, u, a,s, e and d. Now, I’m perfectly happy to buy “when we rush”, or even “older hands make more errors” … except I’ve been seeing similar from both sexes and all ages, plus I’m assuming all of us can at least type.

What then is it? My feeling is that the platforms or whoever have been resetting the keys such that unless directly over the centre of the key, it types the one nearest. Wild theory but in the light of making everything more difficult today for us … wwweeellllll.

17. That egregious pamphlet

… courtesy Sarah in Alberta:

16. This was the scene earlier

… but at the same time, I heard the planes above laying their trails, so for how long a normal sky?

 

Very late, sorry.

(1200) Afternoon all.

 

12. For Fido

I did diligently look but bear in mind there’ve been 132 spam through this morning and the system’s becoming trickier … it’s colouring some regular comments yellow too. As I ditch span individually though, I’d have seen if Fido had appeared .

11. DAD at 1471

Tulsi Gabbard shares emotional update on her husband’s cancer diagnosis. (video)

 

Some of you might recall the song about Enid some days ago. Even for a shorter, more simple song where the words vaguely fit the musical structure, it’s still not that easy to get the meter of the words to match the riffs exactly … in Them’s case it was easier as Van Morrison ad libbed a lot.

All right, so I thought I might do one about myself, being as honest as I can … for example, my epitaph might be: “He just ran out of time.”

So I started looking at strong bassline songs, from Shaking All Over through The Joker (Steve Miller) to this below (to match my character, manner) and in most I looked at, the instrumental version simply did not agree with the hit version. And not just instrumental but with no karaoke nudges anywhere along the way. So we’re relying on youtube offerings, bearing in mind that they can disappear at a moment’s notice.

In short, it’s a hiding to nothing.

Still worth doing? I think so and I’m going to walk you through the process for this song. It’s New Order’s Temptation from the 80s, not my fave decade. Here’s the original:

Now, immediately, we might be running into embedding issues … particularly playback within the States. Hope it will be ok. The good part is that the instrumental version matches it second for second:

However, there are few natural breaks for cues … that’s great for the integrity of the whole but it plays merry havoc knowing where to come in on each verse or chorus … and there are four of these. Thus … who on earth is this song for? Well, for lil ole moi but also for anyone who cares enough to put the words to it, whilst tapping the YT to keep the time displayed.

Disclaimer time … for copyright reasons, no one, not even friends, has the right to copy, let alone distribute in any way … this is the only place you’ll find it and not as a post but as a page … I’ll supply you with the url of the page. I’m almost burying it in other words.

Now, even had you the words beside you (not yet composed by lil ole moi), you’d still need the track, plus these timings of the original below:

• 1:16 Verse 1 four lines
• 1:47 Chorus twice
• 2:03 Ooooooo
• 2:18 Instrumental
• 2:24 Verse 2 four lines
• 2:56 Chorus twice
• 3:12 Ooooooo
• 3:44 Instrumental
• 4:04 (Green eyes) Change of verse structure
• 4:36 (Bolts from above) Change of chorus structure
• 5:06 (Oh it’s the last time) Pre-outro
• 5:37 Instrumental outro (with aaaahs at the start)

The task is to make it unlike what New Order had in mind (coz that was their created experience) and make it more some sort of new personal anthem. Might not work, can never be used anywhere else … sounds a nice task to me.