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Boy's Prom night.

This is all too, too true.

Discover the Plot of Your Post-Apocalyptic Novel With Our Handy Chart https://electricliterature.com/discover-the-plot-of-your-post-apocalyptic-novel-with-our-handy-chart-dfbcd2629aa0 https://electricliterature.com/discover-the-plot-of-your-post-apocalyptic-novel-with-our-handy-chart-dfbcd2629aa0

I may have found a new favourite website (& twitter account @adturds) . Was investigating who dose that really annoying McD's tv ad. This is great :) http://adturds.co.uk/2016/07/28/mcdonalds-advert-voiceovers-an-everyday-everydave/

And, now for an important English language usage lesson.

Enjoying the new release from Roger Eno. No surprises.... a nice piano led gentle trip through his soundscapes/land. Some trumpet on a few tracks. You'll like this if you like this sort of thing. :) https://bleep.com/release/98660-roger-eno-dust-of-stars

Enjoyed #FathersDay with brunch at Granny Pam's (great to see Louise, Mark & Betsy) and then out to the Beamish Reliability Run with Grumps and home via Buttertubs & Tan Hill. "This event is for cars, motorcycles and commercial vehicles registered before 1956. Beginning and finishing at Beamish, the run will follow a 150-mile route around County Durham and North Yorkshire." https://www.beamish.org.uk/events/reliability-ru n/ https://photos.app.goo.gl/JZW1rUQe3VnpXPaMA

BRAAAASIIIL!

Father's Day brunch with the Grumpses.

VAR: spoiling the flow of our beautiful game in an attempt to fix the unfixable in the pursuit of the impossible. #VAR #WorldCup https://football-technology.fifa.com/en/innovations/var-at-the-world-cup/

From a couple of weeks ago, kinda cool. #Beth https://youtu.be/BK8mGUS11iY

If only it were this easy.

MPs miss opportunity to control split cabinet & leave us at the mercy of this govt & their idiotic #Brexit. #FFS https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-politics-44456035

So much bollox #TrumpKimSummit. So much blather. Two awful men. Trying to legitimise each other. No commitment to: “complete, verifiable and irreversible” disarmament. Yes Trump is a showman", a transparently shit one. Yes he's a salesman, a lying weaselly one. This is a good, simple summary article, some highlights. Key fact:  “Reaffirming the April 27, 2018, Panmunjom Declaration, the DPRK [Democratic People’s Republic of Korea] commits to work towards the complete denuclearization of the Korean peninsula” Key finding: — and on closer examination it, too, is empty blather. I can commit “to work towards” beating Roger Federer at Wimbledon, but that doesn’t mean that I will ever reach the goal. Further: The Singapore Declaration repeats virtually verbatim the pledge that North Korea made not only on April 27 but also on numerous other occasionsstretching all the way back to 1992. That’s right — North Korea has been promising to denuclearize for 26 years, and in that time it ha...

On the road to daaaan saaaaaf again.

Trump consistently lies about things which are easily disprovable, as in this fact-checking article. Why should anyone accept this nonsense? Whatever your politics how could you support this bullshit? https://www.washingtonpost.com/politics/whitehouse/ap-fact-check-trumps-goosey-claims-on-trade-jobs/2018/06/09/4f0527de-6be6-11e8-a335-c4503d041eaf_story.html

Invisible asymptotes - this essay by Amazon product manager Eugene Wei from a few weeks ago has tons of insight and wisdom for anyone involved in business and I enjoyed the discussion/positioning of the social media landscape. I found it quite a long a tough read (took a couple of sittings to digest). insightful. http://www.eugenewei.com/blog/2018/5/21/invisible-asymptotes

Published a week or so ago, it's hard to argue with any of this. #Brexit is fucking calamity. Surely we're really not so stupid that we'll actually do it? https://www.project-syndicate.org/commentary/brexit-negotiations-uk-leaders-failure-by-chris-patten-2018-05

Listening to REM's Automatic for the People for the first time in some years & it sounds great. Noticing more the great organ/keyboards underpinning many of the songs along with the fairly sparse strings (a certain John Paul Jones credited with orchestral arrangements) & some fine guitar. I note: > They might be right. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Automatic_for_the_People

Nice little Bowie anecdote from pianist who worked on Blackstar demos. https://pocket.co/x86qrG

I really, really need to cull my collection.

Heading south. Winchester bound. #M1

Bonobo's Migration came out over a year ago now (Jan 2017) and I was a bit unappreciative of it at the time. I think it's grown on me more since and it's definitely a warm-weather music (for me). Just doesn't work in the cold, short, dark days of Winter. Works well in this time of year... on the current playlist along with the new Morcheeba. https://plus.google.com/+SteveAdams0/posts/FdLs8bF5xVS https://www.youtube.com/attribution_link?a=lXbH21VIJIo&u=/watch?v%3DebzEEEdjHj0%26feature%3Dshare

US focused quiz. Note their own comments about the validity of sources' legitimacy/integrity (not all are equal). I got 100% with some informed guesses/bit of nous (eg the URL). I have developed a strong "nose for bullshit news" in the past decade or so. It's a 21stC life skill! Have a try. https://newslit.org/get-smart/which-is-legit/

This year's ugly World Cup ball vs the best one ever. The Tango, a thing of beauty, never equalled.

I've spent too much time on this island.

Enjoying first listens to new @MorcheebaBand album: Blaze Away #MusicForSunshine This Arts Desk review has it about right I'd say. https://theartsdesk.com/new-music/cd-morcheeba-blaze-away