Right … my attitude to 60s pop is mixed … I rarely return unless via a current day reaction video and that was the case with these below. Thereafter, via word association football, certain artists who were curiosities for different reasons … well, they do intrigue.
First one up was a curious group of whom one of the reactors asked … why on earth could they not just give themselves a simple band name? There are two good versions … one on stage, with the singer trying to crack a whip, not shooting a pistol, the second below.
What on earth were they up to? It was in bleedin’ Suffolk of all places, real Rio Grande, no? Part of the British Invasion of the 60s. Frightening thing for me was … I was around … yikes!
Second curiosity was P.P. Arnold who was there at the right time, mixed with all the right people of the time, had a pretty powerful voice, was promoted by people such as The Small Faces, was liked by Tina Turner … so why on earth is there a dearth of good material online about her and why did she “never quite make it big”?
An unworthy thought was that she put it about a bit too much, as a groupie might … check out her Wiki entry … her lovelife started at fifteen. She also had an attitude of a sort of pouting, resentful kind and maybe white audiences didn’t take to it. Plus her voice was not quite Tina Turner, plus she was not managed well … headstrong?
Whatever … this was quite a song in the day, I remember it coming out of the transistor radio quite often.
We were spoilt back then.
The thing with this last one was the dancing or attempts to do it. Thinking back, I was never part of such a scene (sigma forever?) but I did go to a few and remember once even attempting rock n roll with her, a decade out of date.
As mentioned earlier, there are things going on with some ladyfriends just now and they’re hitting Moosh for one. Still, we have a large back catalogue, so you’ll not be starved of Moosherama.
9. Thank goodness there are still some wags left
8. Good idea? Not?
7. Why this Sveta piece
… but the other I buried?
Short answer is that there are certain people in this country it’s best not to directly attack, a bit like the Black Nobility over there or the Scottish Rite here.
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a) VPNs in France are the next on the agenda. Banning social media for those under 15: “Yes, VPNs exist, but if this legislation allows me to protect a very large majority of children, we will continue.”
b) This behavour is on the rise in France – mass rapes by teenagers in the basements of blocks of flats.
c) Image is more important than violence ! “We are not in a cutthroat France or a Clockwork Orange…”: Laurent Nuñez, Minister of the Interior, acknowledges a “rise in violence”….
d) Here is one group who will not be in my Will. In an internal document dated December 13, exclusively revealed by L’Incorrect, the APF France Handicap association calls on its members to maintain no ties with parties described as “far-right”…..
(0543) Morning all, good sleep, need a cuppa. Item 1 below will also be at OoL and Jstack, linked on X. (0644)
2. Quora fills a Readers Digest type function
… and most just goes through my inbox here but now and then something appears to repost. This is a cobstant thread … anything Beatles … some academic in London.
“He said that after the Let It Be experience, he was quite sad that it ended like that and he was surprised to get a call from Paul saying the Beatles wanted to record another album and they wanted him (George Martin) to produce it.
During the recording of Abbey Road, there was a feeling it might be the last album, but it was by no means certain – John had recently proposed an album with 4 tracks each for John, Paul and George and 2 for Ringo “if he wants them”.
However, a few weeks later John announced he was leaving the band – the other Beatles didn’t know whether to believe him (he’d recently announced he was the second coming of Jesus but forgotten all about it the next day!) however, In Feb 1970, John appeared on TV performing Instant Karma with a group of other musicians – that made Paul in particular realise that John was serious – and that was probably the moment that George Martin knew that the Beatles wouldn’t be recording together as they did before.”
Uh huh. As with Jim Morrison and his increasingly lost soul thing, shaking his fist at God etc., the one in the Beatles involved in the legend of urinating on nuns below was John, the one who went off the rails was John (to an extent George with his Maharishi bollox), the one shot was John. The most self-destructive was John … horrible new wife etc., way he had treated Cynthia … in my eyes, it was odds on, just as with François-Marie Arouet way back in France.
The essential difference, esp. with the Jesus Christ crack, was that he was the only one in the four openly hostile to God, just as with the original fallen angel. The others were just searching for the lost chord. And the most interest aspect for me, stretching back 2000 or so years, was how the most blinkered and obtuse were those supposedly intelligent, intelligentsia … yet so soul-dumb at the same time.
1. There’s most certainly mischief afoot online
… which was always odds on. The two latest in my sphere are Toodles and Moosh. Toodles attempted to write a reply to Steve, about family and friends I presume … just disappeared it did. Sometimes it can be intended by the good side, not just the mischievous techie goblins, elves and gremlins. Thing is, it could be absolutely anything, from the provider to the platform to the device to the person using it … we’re all of us under the hammer right now.
There are some golden rules. One is not to click on anything which just appears, however innocuous it seems … I was nearly tricked last night into installing something here. I suppose I’m mid tech savvy, very much front end, knowing some things about backend … knowing what not to touch is one step on that journey.
Looking at Moosh … a new account just appeared, using her images but I’m not sure it’s her, there was no indication from her own site, plus she has enemies, as many of us do. I’ll check that out a bit later. Latest for me is one of Elon’s developers, so he says.
I found this too … interesting, suspected as much:
Combining something my techie mate said about the evolution of devices … with a Happy Days observation about “jumping the shark” … the driving force behind any new “thang” is the creator, the innovator, those about him too, decades ago.
Gradually, it becomes apparent that nothing much has really changed … and why should it? Why fix that which ain’t broke? But the tech company mindset is “change for change’s sake”, staying “relevant”, unlike MTV, also a payroll of developers, all wishing to show off, earning brownie points.
So, inevitably, lesser techies are in there and the company fears losing market share. It becomes about profit … just that. Meanwhile, technically, they just have to “jump the shark”. It’s not unlike the imperative an addict feels.
Back to these two ladies … yes, easy meat for those wishing to stop them. Plus Roob, and to an extent Julia. Me? Semi-easy meat, obviously there are ways around me too. Having access to backenders does alter the equation, plus a cautious mindset helps, learnt over time. Plus a partly detached attitude, realising that anything potentially worthwhile will always bring out the stoppers.
Tomorrow’s post at OoL will be about something which was on X about health … thought it might be of interest. Have a good weekend, chaps and chapesses.
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21. Fractured families
Miles had this to say (see sidebar, IYE):
“I am getting reports, from readers, of their families exploding, as society as a whole explodes. We know it was all pre-planned, but that doesn’t mean it isn’t happening. The events in the news are staged and astroturfed, but these smaller, more personal events are all-too-real. Society is being fractured on purpose, to keep you fighting your friends and family over these manufactured issues, so that you don’t ally against the governors. It was bad enough during Covid, fighting over vaccines and face masks and distancing, but it may be worse now, with families splitting over every new fake event in the news—just as they want us to. It has continued to accelerate after Covid.”
An episode I’ve kept back to sparingly use … the only one where Liz the secretary/PA is elevated to female protagonist … it was leading up to the death of Cross (not in this episode). Yes, I avidly watched the series back in the day.
(1255) Afternoon all … the most fab beef and veg soup brewing/distilling, cod and chips later for dinner … cunning plan is this polit-post, then an episode of Callan (if it works), then whatever. (1321)
20. Mixed feelings about this Amelia
… the way she’s being used. For example, she came out saying that Nigel would lead us out of the troubles … whaaaa? She or her creator must have woken up and so we have this:
Hmmmmm, the mention of Rupert is good but the image is that same tired old woke feminazi girl warrior, supergirl better than any man. Yuk. I’m a great fan of Joan of Arc, plus Xer Sophia, plus all the warrior gals for us … but in context.
Context? I can just hear DAD grumbling, “Bloody AI, not even real!”
True, and yet it is affecting ladies, inspiring them to come out with anti-wokery. Now shirley that’s not a bad thing … even Katie seems into it:
Screenshot only
19. Moosh corner
Wonderfully composed photo.
18. The childless woke left
… let it not happen to us.
17. The crooked Omar
16. Quite liking being nonplussed
… as to how best to use UHC-WP. As a primarily textual archive? Undoubtedly, for our patrons. To unassumingly bury a news item now and then, not even signposting from here? I’m thinking yes, for those on their toes.
(0915) Morning all, no more news just now, here are last evening’s and this morning’s gatherings. Almost elevenses, chaps and chapesses. (1057)
15. The first item of TDS below (in red) is critical
… for any civilised society. Theory is that men build and maintain infrastructure … the female, if she’s onboard, marries that man, little feet soon patter about, she then runs the home economy, is the keeper of the culture, maybe works part-time, defends the manor afap, etc. etc. Leftism has no place with her, male respect and consideration do.
Elly Melly downunder:
She’s doing precisely what she should be doing … defending the land, posterity from home. The male provides the physical power if needed.
14. Lord Toby, plus TDS
Plus:
13. We’ve been looking at shorts of late
These are my stalwart workshorts (one of eight pairs … cleaned em up a little for the readers):
The string tie and zip pockets are crucial. The downside is this weather … to go outside, socks are a no-no, sartorially, as are sandals not a great idea … I use boatshoes if outside briefly (binning rubbish, collecting mail). To my mind, winter weight shorts are fabulous … far less damage when wrecking knees and elbows.
(1131) When I warr a lad, I couldna wait to be “promoted” into long trousers but looking back, they’re an item to be worn less, not more, more for formalwear. With my sailing, rowing, rugby-bullying, shorts were the obvious choice, even with the top of the body, plus head, rugged up. Huge fan of good, thick, long, rugged shorts, with deep pockets.
Plus I lurve trams, digressing a moment.
12. Torquaymada
In praise of modern British music. Not all necessarily in tune with our own particular tastes but the overall sentiment is good.
I also think that The Recreationist site is worth further exploration. Good articles.
11. What the other side says
There’s a certain amount of Ed-in-Chief’s whim about any news outlet. If you look at All the President’s Men, The Parallax View, at least two of the Perry Masons … it goes on and on … there are always criticisms by both those writing and the readers, plus outside observers, of the Ed-i-C.
Also, who owns that Ed-i-C? Where is he/she positioned, politically and religiously, even which team? I start here with no wokery … upfront, it’s stated. As for someone pushing a view opposed to most of us at this site, esp. when this organised, woke, new hegemony view is pushed hard, with mucho moolah behind it … my attitude is that readers can get that from any MSM rag or channel out there. Go away, those pushing bad things.
On the other hand, it’s as well, now and then, to see in general what they’re saying … hence this I rescued from spam:
An a priori bias on any new issue is the very worst reporter/journo temptation, particularly if owned/paid for. I’m certainly owned, no question … by the Triune God, plus any common man/woman/child need.
It tends to focus on humans at this site … them’s our politics here, rather than to a party or denomination. Plus my techie behind the scenes, libertarian by nature, certainly influences me. Plus our boys and two girls, plus other readers.
Policy is to protect our sources, which is why my blunder the other day grates on me. To a point, I must adhere to platform provider policy, I agreed to it in order to use the system to get it out to you.
Penultimately … we are certainly being manipulated into anger by psy-op psycho-atrocity, leaving us in an invidious situation … yes, atrocity must be stopped, yet fools rush in before the counterhit is organised, otherwise 100k+ are slaughtered.
Last for now … our health first, esp. our mental health, our ability to soldier on, is paramount … it precedes any other consideration except for what is right or wrong … we’re no use if gibbering wrecks. In the army, in officer school, it was called, I recall … man management.
There are all sorts of things we must do. R&R is one, remaining calm in voice when confronted by those trying to upset us, biding our time, being prepared, with good intel at hand, being ready to suddenly switch to all out attack … effectively … to judge where and when … all of these are vital to getting through.
10. Moosh corner
(JH: Crazy for all those hats)
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Lady Isilme and her Beloved Bob are heavily involved in an ongoing project just now and whilst they’re keeping up with our doings, time is at a premium. This below is connected to or the occasional break from the project. We also discuss our respective culinary masterpieces but today is just Crafts.
“Just lately my knitting has been diverted from socks to hats. Well, one hat. I knitted myself a beret. I probably ought to now burst into French but unfortunately je suis very bad at it. I was surprised at how easy it was to knit. I always thought of berets as very complicated, but it just looks that way. The wool I used is what they call self-striping – dyed different colours at intervals along the yarn, and when you knit it you don’t have to change colours, it just happens.”
“I have, of course, still been knitting socks. I always have a sock on the knitting needles. Currently I’m knitting a pair of man’s socks and the pattern is called ‘hug me’. I think the name is because of the fancy ribbing that keeps the sock hugging your foot. But if my Beloved thinks it means he has to hug me when he wears them, that’s fine by me 😁 Again, the socks are knitted with self-striping yarn. I’m part-way through the second sock. When they’re finished, they will go to one of our recent visitors who took a liking to them.”
