Leave it out Bazzer - no one likes a grass.
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Booze, news and views from a drunken opinionated fool who can't spell very well, may well repeat himself, and can't blame it on dislexia
I agree with this. The government should have clamped down straight away with knobheads putting up flags along roads etc. Everyone knows the underlying meaning and it's completely different to having them on town halls or government buildings. Often funded by rich fuckers living abroad stirring up hatred and division and backing Reform.
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Spud Murphy (the photographer) l salute you. Mind you, in Marc Bolan, he had one hell of a subject.
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It's about time Labour started being socialist again, and stopped trying to appease Reform voters, but l don't think Starmer should be replaced straight away as that proves Reform to be right as they used the local elections as a 'get Starmer out' voting tactic, and fuck them.
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Hibernation is over, and l'm waiting to be picked up for tonight's gig at Pealie's barn (in 10 minutes time). Should be good, and drink will be taken.
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This treatment and the headlines sounds great, until you realise that Joe Tippens was the only person free of cancer after a trial involving 1,100 patients. I may well be proven wrong (not for the first time) but l'd imagine there was some other reason the cancer went away, something else not taken into consideration, or perhaps just being lucky and his body somehow rebelling against it as a freak occurrence. Who knows?
More on the research can be found at Anticancer research here.
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An excellent but depressing map of the rise of the far right, with considerable backing from Russia. They have however, missed out Reform.
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This. Most of the sycophantic media are too busy brown nosing to Trump and trying to maintain their press access rather than hold the child rapist and his cronies to account and back up colleagues that do ask pertinent questions or who are verbally abused or mocked by Trump, which just enables him more. Meanwhile the men who shot Renee Good and Alex Pretti are still being funded by taxpayers and are still at large. The president has bathed himself in violence and hatred and this is part of the consequences. Journalists - DO YOUR FUCKING JOBS!!!!
Meanwhile, in unrelated news....
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Speaker Mike Johnson trying to replicate Talking Head's 'Once in a Lifetime' video.
A lot of these acts wouldn't be classed as 'pop' in any way shape or form these days. However, I know what nights l'd have liked to have gone to. Tuesday, followed by Friday. Wheat amongst some chaff.
Some words of advice in the last sentence that l've pretty much lived my life by.
From 'Dating as a Fat Lady' substack by Naomi Alderman - here
The Waterboys 'Fisherman's Blues' era. What a time to be alive-o, and what a great band they were at that time, possibly the best band in the world to my raddled old ears. Anyhoos, they are just about to release a 3LP set of outtakes from those sessions, plus an extra EP of outtakes, which of course l have just pre ordered. This is to go alongside the items l already have such as the original album, The Fisherman's Blues boxset, plus 'The Magnificent Seven' boxset (plus many bootlegs). When will this madness end? However, the (looks like) AI cover art is crap.
Here's part of what l already have. Another 12 CDs of sessions.
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Tucker can fuck right off. He's not a stupid man and did what he did for fame and money, and now as it hopefully starts to fall apart, he wants to distance himself from his Trump backing, which l bet he wouldn't be doing if he thought Trump was going to continue for the next few years in a strong position. CJ Sturgis sums it up below.
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I love the look of disbelief, frustration and possibly anger on AOC's face here while interacting with RFK Jr. The only sensible reaction to the dangerous madman.
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As a follow on to the last entry about the sad passing of Desmond (Doc) Morris, here are a selection of his paintings. I like them a lot and if l had more money and a larger house l would own some.
More can be found here.
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How l'll remember The Doc, an Oxford United fan and all round decent bloke, who rather sadly died a couple of days ago. Loved 'The Naked Ape' (amongst others) as well as his surrealist paintings.
If only l had been more into going to concerts rather than football matches (part 8465456465). Relying on pocket money meant l couldn't go to gigs and football, and looking back, l sometimes made the wrong choice, as l could have gone to Queen's Oxford New Theatre show on this tour with schoolmates, as l was living about 12 miles from Oxford at the time and could have got a lift with their parents. Instead of which (and l looked it up) I went to see Oxford United play at home against Portsmouth and Bristol Rovers on either side of the gig. Damn! Touring to support probably my favourite Queen album, and l also liked the support act, Hustler. I did see Queen a few times after this, but regret having missed out on the early tours.