(1714) Evening greetings, y’all, happy suppering.
19. Moo corner
18. Accepting what your brain knows is wrong
17. The CO2 scam
16. Monsters
15. Her suggestion
14. How to destroy the west
13. Moo corner
12. Toodles and the demolishing of hospitals
Over at 1333.
11. IYE triple-oh
… over at 1333, an auspicious number.
As a young person, we all heard Thick as a Brick, smiled at the joke about 8 year old co-writer Gerald Bostock losing his award because he got 14yr old GF Julia up the duff … it was in the news of that day … but the album itself? Two suites, one either side, with bridge?
Yep, clever, ok, they could certainly play, hardly bopping music. 2026 … listen again? Bits, not all the way through … Barriemore Barlow’s drum solo in part two. Robert Plant did not like that they were almost orchestral, no room for improvisation. Plus Tull had an award as best metal band. Tull? Metal? Even rock?
But it wasn’t until late March of 2026 that I watched these two ladies:
|https://youtu.be/_N6IDqm4dSs?si=pol9rY84I62WneFc
|https://youtu.be/_v7NYJd38oU?si=bU-pBgiNE9L3C-rS
… and finally got the backstory, plus about changing time signatures, the whole parody of prog thing. Before Floyd. Two ladies who know music. And now I know why I was not completely into it back then.
Long story short … someone told Ian Anderson that Aqualung was the first prog album. Rubbish … it’s separate songs. You want a prog album, just wait for our next one … a parody of prog.
Trouble is, everyone saw the virtuosity, that these boys could actually play … and it became a prog classic. Oh well, said Tull … let’s be prog for awhile.
The underlying humour is … nice. Here’s the album:
Got company, let’s have a second film.
Film situation … I do go through each film and a few reviews … none of the 30s shorts are left, either for vision, sound or plot reasons. There are about five feature films, a couple of long TV episodes as well. Can’t see myself doing more 30s than that for now, let’s see what YT do.
This was quite a good one:
“This movie is a B-detective series film. This means that as a “B” movie, it was the second and usually lesser film on a double-feature bill. This didn’t mean that B meant it was a bad film, but it was certainly given a smaller budget and had lesser pretensions and expectations from the studio. Many B-films were detective series films and they provided great but also relatively predictable entertainment (much like a movie version of a TV show like MURDER SHE WROTE or even LAW AND ORDER). Common to all these films were goofy or evil supporting characters, a very fast pace, a relatively short length (55-70 minutes) and a certain familiarity with the main characters. Some notable examples are the Sherlock Holmes, Charlie Chan, Falcon or Saint series films.
The Lone Wolf is in many ways particularly like The Saint or Falcon films because the lead (Warren William) plays a reformed thief and gentleman who is smooth with the ladies. While he’s very easy to like and is obviously a force for good, the police never seem to understand he’s helping them. AND, because of this, the cops are pretty dumb! This is the trademark of all these films.
In this case, William is very ably assisted by Eric Blore (who is hilarious as his butler in this third Lone Wolf film). Unlike the last of the Warren William Lone Wolf films (The Lone Wolf Strikes), this one has a very good plot and actually has some entertaining twists and turns. Plus, like the first of the series (The Lone Wolf Spy Hunt), the supporting actors in general are excellent. A very good example of the series.”
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10. IYE
On n7. Get rid of the spike protein:
https://www.thefocalpoints.com/p/dissolution-of-spike-protein-by-nattokinase
9. Moo corner
8. This one’s along the lines of Wed 7
What’s your first reaction to this below, readers? Is it to nod along, vehemently agree … or is it to ask about Kimberly Overton (who is she?) … or is it, as mine was, to ask, “Who’s this healthbot?”
You see, there are 4 players here … one called healthbot, one left of screen, speaking of Kimberly (obviously a dissident nurse), one right of screen answering but not Kimberly as they speak “of” her, even though the fixed caption says her name … and then whatever PS is. Confusing for a deep diver.
My feeling is that at least one is just “reporting on” the situation, all good … but not protocol or netiquette.
7. The clot shot
6. Energy, EVs and ICEs
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5. Steve at 1332
4. Oops
3. DAD at 1332
a) A Typically Lefty – does not know what the word ‘Democracy’ means. Writer and philosopher Mazarine Pingeot has decided to cancel her participation in a cultural event in La Flèche, Sarthe. This decision comes in the wake of the National Rally’s victory in the municipal election….
b) Saint-Denis, ‘City of Kings’, and the Great Replacement: a case study. At the foot of the Basilica of Saint-Denis, the necropolis of the kings of France since Merovingian times, the descendants of the subjects of Their Majesties the Most Christian Kings are becoming increasingly rare.
c) Belgian public broadcasters smash Christian figures but say [that they] would not do so to Islamic or Jewish ones. Presenters on Studio Brussel….
d) Psssst; wanna buy the Eiffel Tower? A section of the helical staircase trod by millions of visitors to reach the summit of the Eiffel Tower is going under the hammer at Artcurial in Paris in May.
(0755) Morning all. Running late as usual … sky is a bit better until the planes appear. (0803)
A little bit of courage
Or put yet another way:
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Crisis of integrity in online reportage, journalism
One of the things any pundit must be wary of is the scam account. At a minimum, the departure from straightness in the approach to this below is a lesson in not jumping in without due diligence. Voila:
For a start, it’s not written in ordinary citizen language, it’s MSM, then there is that JFK Jr died in a plane crash in 1999. So who is this person on X? The profile says WH. Even if we accepted the content at face value … and my other digging says that we can for Qatar, are still waiting on Saudi … there is still a lack of journalistic or scholarly ethics which in my former working life would have had us out on our ear.
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That above is the screenshot for the X version of this post. This is the long version continued:
MMutR was asking me to include Gab in my posting and to a point I do, but it’s far less stringent over there at Gab … that can be good, can be bad, a bit of both. For example:
Who’s Wendy Milling when she’s at home? No pic, no profile on Gab. I found this on the first search:
Back to the Gab posts … clearly anti Israel, anti Zionism … but who for? Maybe not the mussies, except as zero sum rejection of Net the Yahoo … I see someone here at least onside with, say, Candace … “Christian Nationalism”, which we know Gab is. END/.
(1517) Late afternoon and evening all. (1926) Finishing up for the evening now, folks.
19. Moo corner
18. Lord T
17. ICE pulling out all stops
… yuge PR job, capturing hearts and minds. Lovely.
16. There’s something about the 30s in film
Have aleady mentioned the lighter vein, the lightheartedness but that’s the type of film I’ve skimmed through for the site, filled with women of a non-feminist type, nice fashions … the films themselves, during the depression were heavy on happy endings.
One I was looking at for today was The Mystery Man, ended up posting it … uninspiring review below it but halfway through, a real “keeper” suddenly appeared and altered his arrogance just like that. The audience must have been urging these two on to the last gasp happy ending.
Started thinking why these films are nice … could the stagey nature, out of the silent era, be a factor? The woodiness of the acting? The almost amateurishness? Thought back to The 39 Steps and though far more serious, the values were still nice. 20s for jazz, 30s for film?
15. Steve at 1332
Hearts of Oak: Brian Harrison – The Myth of Conservative Texas: Big Government, Islamization & RINO Sell-outs.
14. Battery bollox again
13. Moo corner
12. It’s a thought
11. Just one of the myriad issues facing us
