Bob Dylan Message

Remember that Bob Dylan movie that starts with him wielding card captions to Subterranean Homesick Blues?

Well, you can now send your own messages via Master Zimmerman. Totally cool.

I had wondered aloud if that wasn't Greg Corso crossing camera at the very end? Or maybe Larry Ferlinghetti.

But the great and good Richard Wells puts me firmly to right with his comment:

"That would be the Bard, Allen Ginsberg," quoth Ricardo, "author of one of the 20th century's greatest poems, "Howl," which still can't be read over the radio for fear of US gov't persecution. (Pacifica Radio on the Left Coast just aired it, but Pacifica in NYC declined in fear of fines.)

The other character is Bobbie Neuwirth, Dylan's 'road manager', and all around flak catcher.

Little Known Fact is that Donovan helped hand-letter the first set of signs - ultimately not used in the vid. I think Don has been weeping ever since."

Detective Work

Barrister sends fake legal document to incriminate father during child custody battle.

Dad fights back and gets the crook jailed for 12 months and criticised for "appalling professional misconduct".

songfacts

Maureen sent this to me and I'm wasting a ton of time on it.

Now I'm being equally cruel to you.

Afterthought: It has some appalling omissions, such as Iris DiMent, Tom Rush and Bert Jansch, but therein lies further danger in that the next useless mission will be to sit down and churn out wikis on a ton of little-knowns.

Also, it means I get to read sentimental rubbish on songs like Daniel.

25 essential skills

You know, I don't think I've ever opened a 'Popular Mechanics' in my *life* ... but living in outback Kerkyra and with a 30-yr old chateau to maintain, I do now heed these manly articles.

20 bizarrest experiments

Maddie Fatigue

One advantage of handing the laptop over to the webmonkeys is that one gets out n about and hears stuff.

This missing Madeleine angel is topic du jour here but not in the way I like:

Raucous dinner the other night at which was sitting on my left hand a top Greek avocat with decided opinions on the parents' guilt.

Question: How could two professionals (doctors, to boot) leave a 4-yr-old alone with two much younger siblings?

The mother done her in.

Over-dosed her to keep her quiet during their nosh, complications and then she died.

Get this: moved the corpse *before* their supper, drove her out somewhere and dug a hole and chuked her in.

Drove back, met pals for dinner, pretended to check thru the evening, finally returning to hotel room and screaming blue murder, omg, my baby's vanished.

All what followed was calculated front.

Sounds a load of bollocks to me, but I'm just quoting this top-hole attorney who 100% believes the mother is guilty and will come to grief.

Post-script: According to this BBC report, pal Doc Oldfield checked on her at 2130hrs, so either everyone is lying including friends, or my top lawyer theorist is wrong.

Forests of Greece Petition

Greece being on fire to the tune of biblically tragic proportions, and I myself having had an uncomfortably close encounter of the fiery forest kind - and seen the cynicism of the pols as they pass the moneyed buck - I'm keen to do what I can to wake these Greek pols up to do their duty by their own people.

General election on September

You know what they say - we are all Greeks

Will any kind readers of this blog join me - #2871 - in signing this worthy petition?

As they say, Thanks in anticipation.

Addendum: I might as well quote from a subsequent (and somewhat cheesy) email just received:

"If you would like to help some more to support the cause of this petition, it would be great to take a moment now and send a quick email message to let some friends and allies know about it.

Here's some text you can just copy and paste into your own email message to help spread the word about this petition:

+ --------- copy from here --------- +Dear Friends,

I have just read and signed the online petition:

"Protect the forests of Greece"

hosted on the web by PetitionOnline.com, the free online petition service, here.

I personally agree with what this petition says, and I think you might agree, too. If you can spare a moment, please take a look, and consider signing yourself.

Best wishes,

Chris Holmes

+ --------- down to here ---------- +

 

How to be middle aged

Excellent albeit depressing Financial Times article on how to be a middle-aged man.

I *can* wear jeans - phew

I should *not* be on Facebook - bummer

I can't dance at parties - quite right, and I shall remind Lia of that this very afternoon

I can only get drunk with someone I love, and not on my own. No comment.

Can I have an affair with a woman young enough to be my daughter? "Ah, no," says Peter Aspden, "I'm not going there. Eros famously observes no rules. If you haven't learned that by now, you don't deserve to call yourself a middle-aged man."

277 Reasons to have Sex

It's official: up another 40 reasons for the good old slap 'n' tickle, and this NYT URL has all the links, including to where you can make your own submission as well as read all the reasons to NOT have the most fun without laughing.

Internet Movie Firearms Database

I'm not a weapons man m'self but here on Kerkyra there are macho types galore: old huntin' shootin' fishin' bores, former mercenaries who still sit backs to the wall, wannabe Bournes ... and just plain evil mean types who've acquired a piece from somewhere and, of a Saturday night down the Navi, like to pretend they're packing.

Actually, this is rather an hypnotic site - I clicked on the 'By movie' section and found it hard to pull away.

Corfucian Skies

I was trying to persuade a pal to stay with us rather than in some costly hotel, so I sent a few shots of the morning skies she could expect to gaze out at from the guest room.

 

 

 

 

Social Bookmarking

The first time I saw the name "del_icio_us" was at a Julie Leung geek-eat but the room was so full of clever people I didn't want to expose myself as an Ignoramus so I pursed my lips and looked sceptical and approving by turns and fooled some of the people some of that time.

Now comes Social Bookmarking in Plain English that's not only visually clever but actually explains it to me in terms even I can understand.

Better sign up.

Kokomo/Kosovo Beach Boys Parody

Excellent harmonies and vocals, cool choreography ... wonderful scene on the frazzled bus.

Underlying it all, that these guys are/were in the line of fire.

Pertinent cartoon from The Oldie.

See also The Apostrophe Protection Society