Microposts
Wimbledon without line judges: do not appprove. Makes the court look weirdly empty; drains some of the drama; and puts people out of a job. Presumably not their actual occupation, their career, but still.
Bring back the line judges!
I see, the stand with multiple microphones has both a harmonica attached, and different quality mikes, like a lo-fi one to get that loudhailer effect. Even though there’s an actual loadhailer on the keyboards to one side.
Wait, Neil just has an ordinary stand with a single mike now. Was I hallucinating the great cluster of them a few minutes ago?
Well they may not be Crazy Horse, but they’re still pretty damn hot. And Neil himself is in incredible voice.
Just switched to the Glastonbury live feed. Why have Neil Young’s non-Crazy Horse band got such weird mike stands? And why has Neil himself got like fifteen mikes? Very strange.
Yes! The Book of Dust volume 3 is out in October!
The Rose Field: The Book of Dust Volume Three a book by Philip Pullman and Christopher Wormell.
Finally!
Ah, my Letterboxd post finally made it. Just a lag in the feed handling, I suppose.
My Latest Letterboxd post hasn’t synced to Micro.blog (and hence my blog), and I can’t get iCloud photos to sync to my Mac. Or not all of them yet, at least.
Everything’s not quite working. Maybe it’s the heat. 31°C here in London at the moment.
A fortnight in Canada, a long weekend camping in Somerset, and a couple of days back at work. Couple of film notes and now a Crucial Track. Off we go, then, with a Summer of Blogging.
(Or not, let’s wait and see.)
What is this archaic nonsense? Seems the only way we can vote for Eurovision in the UK is by making a phone call! What century is this?
Well, I’m not doing it. Iceland will have to do without my vote.
Kind of hard to believe, now, the one on the left would go on to lead Britain’s worst (or maybe best) spies. Still with fag in hand, mind you. I wonder if Gary Oldman smokes.
I still don’t understand why AI gives me such a visceral negative reaction.
The intellectual reasons for concern are well known.
But right now, I just wish apps would stop adding AI and trying to tell me it’s great. I’m looking at you Raycast, but you’re just the most recent culprit.
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I must say, I’d’ve been very disappointed if I hadn’t got this one, but I haven’t often got it in two.
I’ll allow I might have been overstating the case in last night’s slightly excited post about Doctor Who. After all, Russell’s current ‘incarnation’ includes ‘73 Yards’.
Still, ‘Lux’ was tons of fun.
I just watched the latest Doctor Who episode, ‘Lux’. It was gloriously meta. Who needs fourth walls? And with a love note to the fandom in the middle.
The best episode RTD has done, certainly in this incarnation. IMHO, obviously.
I should note it’s Petroc Trelawny’s last day on the BBC Radio 3 Breakfast show today. I’ll miss his dulcet tones, and especially his weird pronunciation of ‘Bach’.
Radio saying SpaceX’s latest launch will be the first to orbit over the north and south poles. That’s wrong, of course: there have been plenty of circumpolar satellites. I wonder if it’s the first human-occupied one to enter that orbit; or just the first commercial one to do so.