June 30th;
Tuesday. Thought-provoking suggestion that British TV classic 'The Prisoner' is in fact the dystopia that best captures our times.
June 29th;
Monday. Thanks to Maya, fascinating article about 19th-century Russian literature's interest in The Superfluous Man.
June 28th;
Sunday. So the next campaign seems to be one to normalise polyamory, that old obsession of Robert Heinlein back in the 1940s.
June 27th;
Saturday. Interesting piece with graphics suggests that "lockdowns" (ie. curfews) made no major difference to COVID-19 fatality figures.
June 26th;
Friday. Perkiness from high-energy Confidence Man ("Confident music for confident people").
Boyfriend (Repeat) /
Out The Window /
C.O.O.L. Party /
Fascination /
Try Your Luck.
June 26th;
Thursday. Poppiness! Gorgeous by Yuksek & Confidence Man.
June 25th;
Wednesday. Dean Martin sings along to some Bossa Nova.
June 24th;
Tuesday. Our Man in Bucharest discusses current shenanigans in the UK: Black Lives Matter is a Revolution / What is Going On in England?
June 23rd;
Monday. Slaughterhouse 1.79. Is COVID-19 returning to Germany?
June 22nd;
Sunday. Good article about Adam Smith's views on slavery. Plus some responses from the 'Grievance Studies' hoaxers.
June 21st;
Saturday. An Aeon piece tries a theory that consciousness is surprise-avoidance, and can be reduced to inference & updating.
June 20th;
Friday. Polo & Pan present almost an hour of soothing, sonorous sounds: the Home Sweet Home mixtape.
June 19th;
Thursday. Intriguing interview with Britain's increasingly confused left-wing journalist Nick Cohen.
June 18th;
Wednesday. Out of town to Paty to visit hospitable Tim & Erika. Stay up late with Tim discussing writing project. Beirut's own DJ Tala again, this time in some apartment with a DJ chum called Jade.
June 17th;
Tuesday. Kind Andras admiringly says he cannot find the right words, but that my taste in music is "trashy in a good way".
Jimi Tenor says My Mind Will Travel /
Alice Phoebe Lou performs She /
Pokey LaFarge sings Fuck Me Up /
Bob Moses, and Too Close For Comfort.
June 16th;
Monday. A 2015 interview with Jean Raspail, author of 1972 migration-apocalypse novel 'Camp of the Saints'. Seems he died three days ago.
June 15th;
Sunday. Giant owl chicks watch Belgian man's television.
June 14th;
Saturday. Tight club set from Beirut's DJ Mortada Tala. Quite a lot of red.
June 13th;
Friday. Sober-sounding but extraordinary video allegation that 'The Great Reset' might be how COVID-19 helps the Davos plans of Klaus Schwab et al.
June 12th;
Thursday. The forces of chaos & dishonesty begin their assault on the hard sciences. What Allan Bloom warned us against half a century ago.
June 11th;
Wednesday. Guido points out that the ever-woke Guardian were on the wrong side during the US Civil War. Will their offices be torn down by the BLM/Antifa party-harders?
June 10th;
Tuesday. Fresh Finnish funk from the ever-fertile Jimi Tenor:
Frozen Blue /
Dawn of the Sky Train /
The Flat Roundabout.
June 9th;
Monday. Retired spook Dearlove speaks up for theory the COVID-19 virus was indeed tweaked in the Wuhan lab.
June 8th;
Sunday. Back at The Register ("Biting the hand that feeds IT") the industry busies on:
mortal wombat (vicious furry non-friend attacks Australian women) / Singapore considers
compulsory tagging / Singapore again - this time
forcing businesses off cash / Australians get small payments with
abuse & threats in the transaction description.
June 7th;
Saturday. "I fly with my UFO over your city!" Four tunes involving the Subs:
Music Is The New Religion /
UFO ft. Yves Paquet /
Mitsubitchi /
Flesh & Bones.
June 6th;
Friday. Nifty filmette explains appeal of parallel worlds for physicists.
June 5th;
Thursday. Men are sexually attracted to mentally-ill women, if they're already good-looking.
June 4th;
Wednesday. "You were right. The reaper's going to come." Some old sounds from Suomi songster Jimi Tenor:
Tesla /
Hypnotic Drugstore /
Caravan.
June 3rd;
Tuesday. Porn star who sells phallus-shaped candles arrested by Spanish police after hosting ritual where a fashion photographer died inhaling toad venom.
June 2nd;
Monday. Riots "break out" in several countries because police officers restraining a black man in a US city kneel on his neck and his heart stops. Another black man, a retired police officer of 77, is not long after killed by looters attacking his friend's shop as he tries to defend it.
June 1st;
Sunday. Campaigners claiming hydroxochloroquine is dangerous, and not a cheap, well-understood drug highly effective against COVID-19, seem to have cut a few corners. Just because El Trumpo recommended it?
Mark Griffith, site administrator /
markgriffith at yahoo.com
