(0902) Usual Monday things being sorted. Brief hiatus … chores. (0922)
15. Creature of the cartels
14. Steve
13. The work is never done
12. Interesting these things coming from women
11. Repair the path in summer?
Monday [11 to 15]
Category Archives: Uncategorized
1980
The year, musically, was dominated by ska. I was surprised to see so many who don’t like it now, nor even back then. To my mind, it was lively, danceable, fun … were they ska’s three sins perhaps? One article listed some reasons why it was not universally liked:
1. You Hate the Fans
To generalize, ska fans are gregarious, carefree dorks who love playful, uptempo music. They like silly hats and plaid shirts and are frustratingly unpretentious.
2. You’ve Only Heard Third Wave
When you hear the word ska, I would suggest you ignore third wave altogether, despite there being many gems to be found therein and check out the UK’s 2 Tone scene from the ‘70s and ‘80s.
3. You Also Dislike 2 Tone
You don’t like the Specials, You don’t like Madness. You don’t like black and you don’t like white, at least not when they’re the only two colors on a record cover.
4. You Have No Soul
You probably don’t care for vintage soul or R&B either. It’s not your fault. I’ll stop now, I promise.
5. You Hate Silly Band Names
OK I can’t argue with that. Why is ska the only genre that inspires bands to incorporate the genre into their name?
JH: I could add a few to that:
- 1980 is a very inbetween year … for the young, that’s 46 years ago … think about that.
- For older people, it was a sort of nothing time … out with the 70s, about to become yuppy.
- The further things went on, the more dystopic, perverted, satanic. Ska is innocent fun.
- That’s precisely the criticism in “the day the music died”.
Further issues were that it came from nowhere … reggae plus horns, though the various influences are known … and it died just past the mid 80s, plenty of other genres around. Plus the black v white thing became nastier with time, not better. The genre is jaunty enough, but repetitive, eventually goes nowhere.
Me, myself, I? I was just about to lose my father and launch into my own family life … I just moved on from “music trends”, occasionally heard songs at a distance. It did not return until 1990 with rap, Betty Boo etc.
Lastly … that really is a long, long time ago, 1980. What about the 70s, 60s, 50s, 40s? Phew.
There were other things, personally. I was living in London, there was a really good pub scene, there were all sorts of bands, I was wearing smoking jacket and bowler hat around (quiet at the back there), the vibe was fun.
One other thing … his outfit in the last song … the love of my life wore that colour scheme herself … quite liked it. We were a real special brew … and how.
Monday [6 to 10]
(0715) Greetings, all. What joys await us this week? (0715)
10. Moo corner
9. Antonia Romeo
8. Handling the Moose Limbs effectively
7. Missing girl with a difference
6. Thieves and rogues
Beeching and Marples
(A warning, readers … you might find the narrator’s voice difficult to listen to. After a couple minutes, though, you’ll get the general idea.)
Day of Defenders of the Fatherland [1 to 5]
(0451) The post heading is way too long so shan’t mention it again after this post. It’s an auspicious day, as laid out in DoDotF 2. (0538)
5. Dearieme
Coffee and dark chocolate, you say? Read on.
https://wmcresearch.substack.com/p/friday-hope-cacao-new-evidence-shows
4. Millipede’s new utter lunacy
To ustd where this is, “F” is Chester and you can just make out Manchester top right of there.
The idea is to pump compressed CO2 from moubtain to sea through residential areas … costing billions of ££££s. What fun, eh?
The supposed science behind it:
3. Steve at 1302
- CIA Retracts 19 Different Intelligence Reports After Review Found Leftist Political Bias
- JP Morgan Admits Closing Over 50 Trump Bank Accounts After January 6th
- Iran’s Ayatollah is Quietly Preparing for His Own Assassination With Detailed Succession Plans
- CJNG Cartel Unleashes Chaos at Guadalajara Airport and in Puerto Vallarta After Leader ‘El Mencho’ Killed in Military Raid – Reports of American Tourists Taken Hostage (JH: See Obama’s and Holder’s Fast and Furious from 2008)
- Joe Rogan Slams Mamdani Over What He Wants to Spend on Illegals: ‘F**king Psychopath’
- France Summons US Ambassador After Washington Condemns Killing of Conservative Activist, Insists There Are ‘No Lessons to Learn’
- Russia Hammers Ukraine’s Power Grid as Zelenskyy Plans Three More Years of Fighting
- Turn off the TV – Neuro-linguistic programming has been used against populations in many countries and the UK could be in the driver’s seat (worth the read) (JH: Reference to this in my N.O. post on Groupthink|https://web.archive.org/web/20200921023130/https://nourishingobscurity.blogspot.com/2008/02/groupthink-gentle-art-of-persuasion.html
- Epstein Files Nanotechnology, DNA Computers, Immortality, Kurzweil’s Nanorobots in Human Blood, GoogleX Investment In Pill That Inserts Surveillance Nanoparticles and How Cheap It Is To Buy Scientists
- Much more.
2. DoDotF
Defender of the Fatherland Day (Russian: День защитника Отечества Den’ zashchitnika Otechestva)
As a bite sized morsel, it means the Red Army of the Soviets but over time, it became more Day of Men, even though many women fought as well, e.g. in Stalingrad. It’s mentioned now to mean the soldiers, a day when the womenfolk give gifts and themselves to their men … their own turn coming on Vosmoy Marta, March 8th.
It just happens, personally, to be the final day of my birth fortnight, Feb 9th to 23rd. After today, it’s brave new world.
1. DAD at 1302
a) Jean-Luc Mélenchon on Quentin’s murder: “Who will remember this ‘street battle’ that went wrong by 2027?” Jean-Luc Mélenchon is calling on his supporters to lie low and wait for the storm to pass. Drawing on his experience, he believes that once the initial shock subsides, public opinion will, “as usual,” shift. “People can’t believe that it was us, the Insoumis (LFI), who killed a young man in the street. It’s not credible….”
b) Drug dealers are making life difficult for residents of Place Mazagran [Lyon], under the watchful eye of local far-left activists. The scene unfolds one noisy evening in Place Mazagran, in the center of Lyon.
c) Is France protecting Quentin’s killers? France is still reeling from the death of young nationalist activist Quentin, who was lynched by anti-fascists in Lyon on Thursday, February 12th.
d) Andrew Bridgen: “Together we can and will Restore North West Leicestershire. It’s our home.”
e) Mexico: Chaos, panic, soldiers killed, fires… Scenes of war in some cities after the death of “El Mencho”, head of the CJNG cartel and the country’s most powerful criminal, killed by the army.
Sunday [16 till close of play]
(1634) Evening all (soon). Did not get the snooze … too much listening to Ramblers and Goofus, plus too much reading of all the nefarious doings. Not all should come to the front page here, the ones which delve that bit further but all accessible. Am about to do coffee, choc, plus that Sachs interview of Rupert, also various sshots in the pipeline. The final Logan Stevenson Temple in place for tomorrow.
19. Moo corner
18. More of the same
17. Steve at 1302
Hearts of Oak: The Week According To . . . David Atherton.
16. IYE in comments
Do check the last comment, plus the earlier link, that’s all I’m sayin’.
Goofus with Rollini
The first is a tad fast, never mind:
Have to say, have to come out with it … of all the bands, The Goofus Five, with Rollini, has to be my fave outfit. Not sure why … just love the jaunty spirit and this last one below … it’s the goods imho.
Sunday [11 to 15]
(1359) Jazz follows this, possibly around 1430. (1359)
15. Meanwhile
14. More gruesome details
13. Further to Steve’s Starkey interview of Rupert
12. From TDS this morning
“The official record, from the 2014 ‘Report into the Child Exploitation in Rotherham‘ and the 2022 ‘Report of the Independent Inquiry into Child Sexual Abuse‘, both led by Professor Alexis Jay, to the ‘National Audit on Group-based Child Sexual Exploitation and Abuse‘, led by Baroness Louise Casey in 2025, leaves little room for ambiguity. Paralysis was rooted in fear: the fear of being labelled racist; fear of unsettling “community cohesion”; fear of puncturing an approved narrative of multicultural harmony. In too many councils and police forces, that anxiety counted for more than the suffering of children. In Professor Jay’s words: “Politicians wanted to keep a lid on it.” This was a hierarchy of priorities, unmistakably revealed.
Those priorities have surfaced in public life with disturbing regularity. In 2017, the Labour MP Naz Shah shared a social-media post suggesting that abused girls should “shut their mouths for the good of diversity”. Her remark was dismissed as an error of judgement, but the sentiment it revealed was not an aberration: it reflected a deeper and recognisable mode of thinking in which the reputational management of multicultural harmony outranks the elementary duty to protect vulnerable girls.”
11. Steve and a conversation
Sun Mat
“I’m not sure why this film was entitled The Undercover Man since it did not involve any law enforcement infiltrating organized crime to bring a case against some criminals. Maybe it was the sardonic humor of producer Robert Rossen and director Joseph H. Lewis since it does involve Treasury agents Glenn Ford, James Whitmore, and David Wolfe operating out of a rather dingy apartment going over syndicate books to make an income tax case against, ‘the Big Fellow’.
After the success they had with taking Al Capone down this way, going after the finances of criminal enterprises has been a tried and true way to go in these matters for law enforcement.
The agents are a good if colorless lot, the real spice in The Undercover Man are some of the various character roles cast by Rossen and Lewis. Barry Kelley is the syndicate lawyer, a very confident fellow right up to the end, he’s one you’ll remember.
Also Anthony Caruso and his family, mother Esther Minciotti, wife Angela Clarke and daughter Joan Lazer. He keeps the tallies for one the syndicate’s numbers parlors, but he’s tasted the high life and now has a mistress as well in stripper Kay Medford, her first credited screen role. He’s memorable too as the luckless Caruso is gunned down in the street.
Another syndicate bookkeeper is Leo Penn and his wife Patricia Barry who flees after Caruso is killed. You’ll know Leo because of his famous two time Oscar winning son Sean. The family resemblance is unmistakable.
The good guys are kept colorless until almost the end. They patiently billed their case with numbers and handwriting experts who tell them where to look for clues and suspects. In the end however Glenn Ford does have to resort to the gun to get out of a tight spot.
Ford’s allowed a little personal life and a bit of family crisis when he thinks he could be putting wife Nina Foch in harm’s way. It’s a bit of a diversion showing these guys are as human as some of the people they’re dealing with.
But The Undercover Man is best when concentrating on the bad and the luckless. Pay particular attention to Caruso, Kelley, and Medford. It’s a good if somewhat unknown noir classic.”
Sunday [7 to 10]
(1213) Phew, only now have I got on top of things today … medical thing tolerable. Afternoon all. Some nice jazz coming up later but better still … just as good next Sunday too … let’s hope we make it that far. Plus a quite reasonable B movie in a few mins. (1241)
10. Moo corner
9. IYE from this morning
Island man 3. “The Intelligence Channel”
“….who was running it?”
https://escapekey.substack.com/p/epstein-iii
8. Steve from Saturday evening
I’ll just leave this here..
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7. Rupert and a German American