(1006) Warm out there. (1101)
10. Colin Wynter KC
9. Almighty clearout of teaching staff required … start over
8. It’s not just conflicting personalities
… it’s opposed agendas they’re in thrall to, monetarily, plus the blackmail.
7. Nearly got away
6. Clandestine and the Smithsonians
Obviously of interest, just as is the current Russki attack, itself clandestine. Anyway:
Elvis was discovered, and ruined, by an (alleged) illegal immigrant from Lithuania, which was one of the reasons why Elvis never performed outside the USA, Parker realising that if he accompanied Elvis abroad, he’d never be allowed back in.
As he matured, so did his voice, and it was felt that there wasn’t a song he couldn’t sing … “If I can Dream” from his comeback special, after discharge from his military service, is just one example:
What could Elvis have achieved under proper management?
Ernest Evans is said to have used the stage name of Chubby Checker as a play on words of Fats Domino. Sadly, his career seemed to revolve around that atrocious activity called The Twist, and it didn’t last, as did not those who failed to adapt to music tastes (I’m afraid I include Ricky Nelson in this).
Many British pop stars seemed to try to be clones of the early Elvis, and few survived very long, though Harry Webb seems to have done quite well.
I could go on, but would note everybody. Music tastes, like humour, is subjective after all.
……
JH: I’d just add:
https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Elvis_Presley
https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Colonel_Tom_Parker
(0601) Morning all. (0653)
5. Some Texas news
4. DAD at 1130
a) For the past week, around 200 migrants have been camped outside of Paris’ Hôtel de Ville (City Hall) to protest against a supposed lack of proper accommodation.
b) [The] Macrons Secretly Hired Investigator To Dig Up Dirt On Candace Owens [following her series of videos that claimed ‘Brigette’ is a male].
c) Dozens of migrants land on Algarve beach loved by Brits… and are immediately taken before judge and ordered to leave the country, in stark contrast to soft-touch UK.
d) Danish wind farm constructor Ørsted has been left facing one of the most turbulent periods in its recent history, with its stock price having plunged to an all-time low.
3. The disappointing Danielle
First consider this:
Add to that how thoroughly disappointing eastern Canada has been in Trudeau, Carney and Poinlievre, all Uniparty baddies or controlled opposition, not unlike Yusuf Farage in the UK … and Danielle’s embracing of the east, as if they are remotely interested in Canada’s welfare:
Meanwhile:
Or how about:
Does Danielle have the Rottweiler streak necessary to take on eastern Canada? Does she have the stomach for it? Is she truly interested in acting, not bleating?
2. Andy at 1130
Our broadcasting auntie reports that Thames Valley police have terminated 39 officers and staff for se**al misconduct over the last few years. Others have been given written warnings and final written warnings. This quote from the article which I cannot link to gets my goat. “Another 23 were told to undergo reflective practice.” What the heck is that when it’s at home?
Fiddling while Rome burns
… or however you wish to put it … sleepwalking to oblivion … but even your humble correspondent is guilty of it. It’s 0300 or 3 a.m., our time, having just awoken, and what am I doing? Reposting pretty architecture, landscapes, embroidery, reposting memes such as this:
And what am I failing to do? Failing to adequately bring to your attention this kind of thing:
Jen’s a good lady but still at the stage of asking what’s going on, supporting a party which will set things right … Reform under Yusuf and Farage … who are in thrall to the very terrorists who are hiding weaponry in their secret cathedrals and whose Smami have said more than once are coming door to door to demand you convert or be put to death. Yes … your own door. Who is coming to save you?
And JD Vance is due to talk to one of these ahead of the Alaskan summit. Not talking to Rupert … talking to soft on Yusuf Farage. Meanwhile:
… and this:
… and this:
… and this:
… and this:
… and this:
… and this:
Yes, it’s all over the west, innit? Coordinated, innit? By whom? Meanwhile, in the cradle of civilisation, on the front line so to speak … in Greece:
Was Jen or anyone else who was educated in the west after 1960 taught about the conquest of the Iberian peninsula? How about the corsairs and other Milsum terror boats attacking towns along the coasts of countries not yet but soon to become “the west”, once Christianity got a foothold?
Slaughtering men and enslaving women and girls for their pleasure back home in Arab lands … have you ever studied those raids? Why not? Oh, because the Wokeleft teachers never taught it in the west? Why not? Could it be that they were teaching this instead?
Meanwhile, I stay calm and keep posting on North York landscapes and on the first tube stations … or even drop in some humour. What I am failing to do is get everyone preparing defences, making escape plans, deciding precisely how they’ll meet the threat once it bursts through your front door.
Have a lovely Wednesday.
(1733) Evening all.
19. A mix of three
18. Ahead of the summit
17. They don’t like it uppem
(1606) Almost evening all. (1659)
Nostalgia?
The Corries had a little ditty, one verse going:
The hills are bare now
And Autumn leaves lie thick and still
O’er land that is lost now
Which those so dearly held
Uh huh … that could also apply to any of our lives “back then” in our yoof (not in the ’45) … better to leave it undisturbed? Or allow us to go back in the time machine?
Until this summer, there wasn’t really time to look back, except as part of the blogging, but this summer, some of us have gone on holiday, other things have happened … I found myself looking back … in fact, I looked up an exgf from decades ago … and there she was. Uh huh.
Today, I tried to pin down, not songs released at the time but songs staying on the mind. I mean there were hundreds released from, say, 1963 to 1966 but only a few have remained on the mind … a tumultuous time when I changed schools twice, not a stable time.
Though I know there were Chubby Checker, Dion, Del Shannon, other individual male singers … Elvis for some … though I was never into him … the male bands didn’t really register in the conscious of quite a few boys until the Beatles and Stones … and that was mainly 1964/5, with Satisfaction coming out in 66.
No, it was before then and the flurry of female artists who remain significant for me … Helen Shapiro, Leslie Gore, Little Millie, Little Eva, The Exciters … there were girl singers constantly in 63. Paul and Paula, April Stevens … Nino Tempo, Roy Orbison were some males I recall.
To my mind, something was certainly lost between 63 and 64, as I changed schools.
It also changed in my consciousness … Beatles, Stones, other bands … remember Thane Russell and Three? That was 66 onwards. Where were the girls then? Melanie was the only one I remember from the time … the Ruby Tuesday cover came in 67, outside the range of this post item.
Before 1963? Purple People Eater and Running Bear were never my music, too early … The Shadows were in 1962, no singing bands I remember. Dion, Ricky Nelson yes. Eddy Cochrane not really … way before my time.
Going to sign off with a song from 1963 … now which one? 🤔
One of the criticisms of Simenon, the books, the films, is that they’re too gritty, too dwelling on human misery, on rotten family relations … maybe so … in this better than average episode, Maigret sympathises with the crim, whilst the ones not caught have nothing happen to them … though karma will eventually catch up. Supposedly.
(1223) Afternoon all. (1314)
15. Paris
14. “Modern” teachers … how long in prison, iyho?
13. “Get away from me,” say both simultaneously
Should you wish to listen to her ranting … HERE.
12. Referring to the four on the train and the deviant
Post WW1 history, heard from MMutR
The phone is the worst possible way to hear a tale, then later recall it authentically and write it up for readers because:
Having said all that, he’s actually wrong about it not being accurate … the parts I mentioned were most accurate, then I added my own take, as explained clearly to readers. If he wants it better than that, then email or text it. ☺️
So this below is as good as I can recall it:
During WW1, young men were sent off to be slaughtered in order to please elites who were having arguments and thus needed plebs dying for them … plebs they cared not a toss about … exactly as it is today.
Right … this meant that the male population of the good sort, the worthwhile sort, were hugely diminished … (it was repeated in the USSR in WW2, with the murderous Stalin who also hated his people – I added that bit, ok?) …
So, with those males no longer around, only the emasculated males plus females being around after the war, with broken good men … women started asserting themselves, demanding everything under the sun … and not good women but malcontented leftists, socialist harpies like Pankhurst and the kind (I add … see Betty Friedan during Vietnam, plus Steinem, plus Hanoi Jane).
I also take over the tale from here … all subsequent troubles in society are because the wrong sorts of females, with twisted ideas of what feelings demanded, rather than the required crisis -solution-resolution mindset … came into power in all the wrong ways … just look at Rachel from accounts, Crockett, AOC etc. … and the result, as they do the will of globopsycho males they obey, their paymasters … is utter disaster.
Yes, we’ve had it before … let’s have it again: