When you’re trying to fly, do a downstroke over water. It’s not easy to describe: but the water kicks up hard - harder than dry land.
Johnny, won’t you come on home: it’s a warning from the past for the Labour government of the future.
Johnny Come Home - Fine Young Cannibals. More: www.crucialtracks.org/profile/m…
Folks who’ve been following my hopeless attempts at flying - let me tell you, us humans are not cut out to “land” (hit the water) like a duck.
Atom Bomb. Baby got a Nobel Prize. Almost 30 years ago.
Atom Bomb - Fluke. More: www.crucialtracks.org/profile/m…
Great piece from Zoe Williams in the Guardian today:
I knew Rod Liddle and hated what he became. He would have wanted me to say so
You should read it. But here is the punchline:
I won’t miss Rod Liddle, but I miss the person he was when the world was different, and I miss that different world.
Tongue in Chic by Banco de Gaia. Embarrassing. But there you go.
Do you use 37signals’ products? I’ll not link to David Heinemeier Hansson’s piece on Europe. You don’t need to read it - and I’m sure you can Google it if you want to. But, fuck me. What a nasty piece of work this techbro Nazi is.
This is an odd headline from the Guardian this morning:
Ann Widdecombe killing: police investigating possible leftwing motivation
“Extreme left motivation” I could swallow, but “leftwing”?