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Someday I’d like to be an old man who sits in museums with a sketchpad and tries to draw the paintings. In the meantime, I’m trying to identify a song that surfaced in my speakers the other day, a burst of fuzzed-out psychedelia in a language I do not recognize. After two minutes and eighteen seconds of pure delight that sounds like the Platonic ideal of 1971, it abruptly cuts …

Monday So much rain last night that I got up twice to look. But what’s to see in the dark? I almost went outside but it wasn’t that kind of rain. Too cold and too heavy. In the morning, in a raincoat and wellies, I chopped back the spent buddleia flowers and emptied the pots of their ailing summer plants. The squirrel was doing busywork, digging fruitlessly in the grass. …

[1977]The greatest golden oldie that wasn't even a hit. Cars and girls: You really can't beat it as a pop song theme/concept/aim. This is a vibe but I feel like it's a lost vibe and it crushes my soul that we all aren't striving to be living this romantic carefree feeling on a daily basis in 2024.Then when you actually have a think about the lyrics its really kinda sad …

The Numero Group’s Rob Sevier for two hours of music from The Numero Group catalogue and chat Track List Lord Rhaburn ‘Boogaloo a la Chuck’ Father’s Children ‘Kohoutek’ Lion ‘You’ve Got A Woman’ Motion ‘Civilization’ Laraaji ‘I Can Only Bliss Out (F’Days)’ Margo Guryan ‘Moon Ride’ Iasos ‘I Passion You a Leap of Love-Flame’ Marj Snyder ‘Rain’ Catherine Howe ‘On a Misty Morning’ Propinquity ‘People Come’ Ted Lucas ‘Raga in …

What caught my eye this week. How filthy rich would you be if you could see tomorrow’s newspapers today – and then trade on the back of your unfair insight? Actually, many people could end up poorer. At least that’s the takeaway of new research by Victor Haghani and James White of Elm Partners Management. They decided to investigate conjecture by Black Swan author Nassim Nicholas Taleb that knowing the …

A railway station opened in Waterfoot in 1848, at the end of a line that connected it to Rawtenstall. It was always the intention that the line would not terminate at Waterfoot, but would travel on to Bacup. This presented a major problem for the engineers. The only route from Waterfoot to Bacup is through […]

B-tier black metal and the break of autumn Your tastes are not your own. Your moods are orchestrated by nefarious digital platforms. Everyone knows this now. ‘Inception’ may have been right that the mind can always spot an idea implanted by a foreign agent. That we would somehow care, or not act on this idea regardless? It got that bit wrong. We all know the influence algorithmic weather systems have …

Asceticism –The Fasting or Emaciated Buddha** I know that self-discipline and abstinence – asceticism – are parts of religious practice within many religious and spiritual traditions including Buddhism. That knowledge derives from many sources. They agree on a … 🐞 Read more about it ➞ ➞ ➞

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I interact with ChatGPT on a daily basis. My interactions cover a wide variety of topics and subjects. The last “conversation” I had with ChatGPT, which I decided to publish here, focused on education and career choices. Today’s chat was less formal than the previous one, but still important. I did a straight copy and…

For Shah, it wasn't just about 'how to create an animated revival of a live-action series, but 'why.'

An end of week recap “Every secret of a writer’s soul, every experience of his life, every quality of his mind, is written large in his works.” – Virginia Woolf We will be heading off on a slightly delayed honeymoon, or honeymoomin as our waggish doggy-sitter (pun intended) insists on calling it, on 1st October for four days – only as far as York, but it will, I’m afraid, scupper …

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There’s a delicate, industrious ticking at my left-hand side. A tiny golden hand advancing second by second around the upturned face of a watch from 1969. My grandfather’s watch. A watch I didn’t know existed before this month, belonging to a man I’d never met, whose personal effects I just traveled 5300 miles to retrieve after 30 years in storage. I’ve always been a sucker for tiny, functional items; things …