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Thursday [12 to 15]

(1308) Cunning plan is to post these, look around for another Falcon episode or similar … go from there. Was waylaid a bit by Elon this morning. (1324)

 

15. Plus the rest of it


14. Is Tulsi substantial enough proof for you?


13. Ostrich update and it doesn’t look too good

Last report, the Indians had taken over, it being on their tribal land, supposedly … but now the Empire of the East Strikes Back:


12. Over at OoL

https://orphansofliberty.blogspot.com/2025/09/ive-no-devices-of-any-kind.html

Thursday [11]

(1108)(1115)

 

Lola and Ruby Moir

Redacted is quite right that they should not be forgotten. Logical place to start was X Search, then maybe ggl search, with little hope of success.

The last report I saw was by Aesthetica who had spoken to the mother. It seems she’s put up the shutters on the daughters, the two perps having been charged … no further info. I’ve run the above on X minutes ago, hoping someone will respond.

Thursday [6 to 10]

(0923)(0943)

 

10. Selby


9. Remind me to avoid that family


8. Not just Killary deleting messages


7. Syria, with collusion by western leaders


6. Steve B’s chart quiz

I wrote this at his place: “I recognise almost none which makes me guess into the 80s … I was out of circulation in the 80s. Early 80s?”

Thursday [1 to 5]

(0802) Morning all … I was up at 0730, just not online. Sun’s up out there, low misty cloud is about though, not blue skies. (0829)

 

5. Wonder which season we’re in

Autumn bucket list by Brooklyn Swenson, via Titania

4. Steve at 1160

  • James Comey to be Indicted in Coming Days
  • Letitia James is Expected to be Indicted ā€œIn the Coming Daysā€
  • DHS Celebrates 2 Million Illegals Leaving the Country Since January
  • CNN Data Analyst Says Republicans Have Midterms Advantage: ā€˜Whatever Democrats Are Doing, it Ain’t Working’
  • Trump Insults Russia Dumps Kiev
  • Danish PM Visits Greenland To Apologise for Forced Contraception
  • Much, much more.

3. Andy at 1160

On clear nights, the blinking red lights make it look like Logan Airport.

ā€œI don’t like all this mess out on the horizon, all the flashing red lights each night,ā€ says one fisherman, who asked that he not be named.

2. DAD at 1160

a) The reckoning is coming to France, the most spendthrift country in the world. (JH: Aside from Britain, Canada and Australia, per capita)

b) Death Threats Against the Right: Will France See Its Own Charlie Kirk Murder? (JH: Probably best not to imagine such things)

c) You have to read it to believe it. AFP is relaying the call of a dozen economists against the risk of ā€œthe collapse of public-interest journalism,ā€ which provides quality information.

d) Read on Yves Daoudal’s blog…..

1. Via downunder

The war on beauty

This opens with a disclaimer … it’s not my intention to mock anyone in this post … that point is genuine … but in order to make the various points, I need to draw attention to some shortcomings … heaven knows there are enough of my own to render me oh so very umble.

One of my contentions, at 0228 Thursday morning, is that cranked up sensitivity to perfection of form (the artistic aim of eye and ear) will then note the slightest discrepancy, the slightest flatness or defect … and reject it outright, almost as an outrage.

An example is my own grasp of language, such that the slightest error immediately stands out like a sore thumb … or in some of the reader critiques below on perfection of form, the English errors in their writing, to my eyes, are excruciating.

I’d ordinarily have not even noticed, the focus being on other things. But as they’re banging on about perfection in music, their imperfection in English also stands out. It will for you too, simply as I’ve now drawn attention to it.

One thing though which half a life in education has taught me is that it is way out of order to show irritability towards a learner if he or she is attempting to perfect form and is obviously falling short. To my mind, that’s a crime against learning.

This sensitivity to form though is behind my not finding Baroque music worthy of DAD … or Sunday jazz not worthy of Dearieme or AKH … and therefore I abandon attempts to, despite the kind disclaimer from the worthy DAD in comments right now. The thrill for the teacher is seeing the aspiration to excel in the learner, the thirst, even though the attempt falls short, over and over. Any good parent understands this.

It started, this train of thought, with Wings of Pegasus banging on about a jazz singer being autotuned, the culprit being YT:


What’s the Disney bit above? It’s a corner of the advert which rudely intruded on the video right in the presenter’s mid-word, not even waiting for a logical natural break. Philistine in the extreme. YT at its most crass.

Yet what can we expect? They’re a tech organisation, they’re not aesthetes, and the very ability to tune into my current focus and supply whatever videos it could find has stood this blog in good stead before … it certainly supplied me with the screenshots below. Kudos to that tech, kudos to machine learning … just for us to be here reading thus is a triumph of today’s tech.

Taste? Well (cough) … er … maybe not YT’s forte. Yet it can bring us videos such as this:

… followed by videos such as this:

That type of “jazz” is just not my thang, any more than big band orchestral swing in the 40s … and yet, if you follow his reasoning, backed by pitch graphics, you can see how grating this is upon him, upon viewers too, especially as in the previous vid of the olden day singer:


And on Chet Baker, the subject of WofP’s horror of YT’s treatment?


Did you notice the English error in the screenshots above … or in my spelling of “this” as “thus”? What you might not have noticed is that in order for this post to format properly, I had to edit the code behind, removing the html of “screenshot” for example. There’s no such thing as just typing and be done any more today.

And so to this daughter:


We had that video once before, going into her mom’s “wrong side of the tracks” start to life and horrendous childhood … her daughter here is doing a “none of that matters to me, mom” eulogy, uncomfortable to a mother who’s seen the rough side of life … and yet here’s her daughter running videos on “the war on b’yoo’dee” … talking aesthetics.

Time for yet another attempt by me at three hours more sleep before a restart aroubd 0730. See you then, hopefully.

Wednesday [22 till close of play]

(1702) Evening all.

 

26. Moosh corner

I asked Moosh: “Layabouts or on a break?”


25. Dicky’s getting biblical


24. Prisons filled with illegals and other foreigners


23. Khan and Bloomberg

22. Steve and war room

  • Eric Teetsel: We Are Focused On Ensuring What Happened To Charlie Never Happens Again. Antifa Is Not A Vacuum; It’s Fueled By NGOs, Donor Funds, And Tax-Exempt Groups Pushing Anti-American Ideology And Violence. We Must Get To The Root
  • Dr. Toby Rogers: President Trump Is Taking On The Most Powerful Industry In The World
  • Bannon: The Left Wasn’t Whining About ā€œFree Speechā€ When They Silenced Our Voices And Stole The 2020 Election!
  • Bannon: Hillary, The Democratic Political Class, The Corporate Elites, And RINO Republicans Sold Out And Wrecked This Country. Donald Trump, Imperfect As He Is, Saved It. Full. Stop

Wed Mat

 

Apologies to DAD but none of the Baroque we’ve not seen many times was available, so a film seemed the way to go … an early one from the Conway Falcon series:

“Tom Lawrence gets off to a good start on his own as he wakes up with a hangover but with a sexy Latino lady standing over his bed. Mia Bruger is her name and she tells the Falcon of her concern for her missing brother. He meets her later to discuss the matter but someone knocks him out. He wakes up later on a country road in the backseat of his car with little knowledge of where he is.

When he is arrested for a bank robbery and a murder, Lawrence works out that he has been set up and goes on the lamb to solve the crime and why he was set up.

In his first film on his own, Tom Conway opens with a typically suave turn in bed, hungover from his night on the town and waking with a beautiful woman in his room. From here the plot moves well to set up the mystery. It isn’t a gripping thriller but it holds the interest by having enough going on and sufficient plot twists occur to help keep the pace up throughout.

Much more enjoyable than the previous entry (Falcon’s Brother) in this regard, the film is well written and well delivered.

After a so-so start in the last film, Conway seems like he was made for the role and within a few seconds of the first scene he is into it and great fun. His detecting skills are on show and he mixes them well with a debonair delivery and screen presence, the memory of Sanders slipped from my mind. Hilliard works well alongside him but, unusually for the series, there are quite a few strong female performances from Randolph, Gibson and Corday.

After Lefty in the last film we get Goldie returning but this time played by Edwards. It is a basic turn and not as funny as I would have liked. Better comic support value comes from the pairing of Clark and Gargan (straight man and stupid man respectively); the simple comic scenes involving them are not imaginative but they do provide a few laughs.”

……

The writing of a script, story, screenplay, whatever

… maybe just a novella.

Having watched the film above … look, it did the promised job, the review I felt was fair, it was clear how they wanted the episodes to go, as with The Saint, as with James Bond … but there are also major failings in general with formulae.

  • First is that men and women are quite different … ask a man to write a woman, ask a woman to write a man … it’s fraught unless they’re a) working together or b) are some of the few who can write for both sexes. I feel Christy could, Wodehouse could not, Dorothy L. Sayers could not.
  • Second is where to place each in history. In 1943, it was the near omniscient action man … by the 1990s, they were wanting the imperfect man and kickbutt superwoman … today, it’s obnoxious how the man is portrayed … only a deluded female could want those “heroines”. Somewhere on that continuum, from 1943 to the present, there was a happy medium for each protagonist.
  • To cut to the chase, once the culture in which they operate in the tale is established … somewhere, culturally, back in the day … after landgirls became adept at most things, plus men were jacks of all trades, both fell for the other easily enough, then we need to build the male protag and female protag.
  • The male protag was well educated for a start … rode, rowed, played rugby, cricket, sailed, knew a certain amount about cars, wrote verse and prose, could compose a song, passably danced, knew something about tech, was able to find solutions, was not impossibly intelligent, just enough, had flaws, was accessible, was not smug, was gentlemanly … all this was as we were educated in my day, could hold a knife and fork, open a door for a lady etc. etc. … then it’s the female.
  • The female is often so badly written, from demure damsels in distress to kick butt feminazi dreams … somewhere inbetween are the females I personally know … we have two at this site who can hold their own and these are the ones I’ve based my female characters on. Also well brought up, adept at so many skills, expect the man to do others … on X there are other ladies who are just that, though sassy and feisty too. Next … the test:
  • In my long book, at one point, our female protag is lured out to a car by subterfuge, three men are in it, she’s used to this as her gals’ section know how to neutralise with pencil thin tranquiliser dart. She disarms the one on the back seat one side, grabs the gun, shoots the other, shoots both in the front. Strings are pulled to get her off back in Paris … they were naughty boys from another section and Them didn’t want it known. But she was shaking after it … she had vulnerabilities, was real … and that’s how the character was formed … I backwrote from there.
  • Rather than blissful love in a cottage, they know they just need to support one another, having tense and terse moments along the way, plenty of intim moments to ease it all along. Temptations, yes. I’m aware not all like Christie but in Tommy and Tuppence, she got close, though she often made Tuppence insufferable and Tommy too much of a klutz. I’m thinking the writer needs to extract ego from the two protagonists. In the film above, the gf is just right but he’s a smug prig in my eyes, as faithless as a … as a faithless person.
  • Story arc … MMutR has this as one of his main gripes in series … someone new on the block wants to force the arc, change it, which viewers detest, and the writer has invented backstories which just don’t sit well. Avoid.

Wednesday [16 to 20]

(1008)(1136)

 

20. OrkneyIslands


19. Right … let’s try it

Boney M, Blondie … hmmmm, mid 70s, first thought.

18. The ostriches … and thug plod


17. Absolutely no to Digital ID


16. Thought this might be of interest