Definitely solid - a little slow at times - but work with it - it’s a good one
Dope Thief on 🔗 Reelgood
One of those gentle English detective shows that holds it all together pretty constantly. And scenes from all around Chelsea, London .. suitably scenic advertising from time to time. Good stories. …
🎬 I watched ‘Mission Impossible - Dead Reckoning’ over the weekend. From beginning to end.
Popped over to Letterboxd to review - to discover 🔗 I had already done that! - and that story says all you need to know about how memorable it was!
So Dave Barry’s 🔗 Mission: Highly Improbable ❓
😂😂😂
A short chat last week sparked a familiar question:
“Is blog even the right word anymore? Do people still use them? Isn’t the whole thing outdated?”
Yes. Yes. And no.
You’d be forgiven for …
Wuh woh. It all started last year, but it just got a significant push with the judge granting approval for a variation on a class action in the U.S.A.
“The case involves Mobley and four other plaintiffs representing all job applicants ages 40 and older who were denied employment recommendations through Workday’s platform since Sept. 24, 2020. The court determined that the main issue – whether Workday’s AI system disproportionately affects applicants over 40 – can be addressed collectively, despite the challenges in identifying all potential members of the collective action.”
The Boss released his first album in ’73 and it was clear even then that he wrote songs of disillusionment and protest. So when his fans got all uppity when they realised that ‘Born in the U.S.A.’ wasn’t quite the all American anthem they thought - including ‘Ronnie’, I would have thought that this would have cleaned house of the ‘people that don’t pay attention’.
Clearly not.
Bruce Springsteen’s anti-Trump comments divide US fans
💬 The Guardian
The Guardian? Hell fire!
It got me to thinking how true is that?
My thanks to Jessica Hagy and her 🔗 Indexed site for the inspiration.
I do like JP’s journies. This one from 2022 - 🔗Thinking lazily about capacity and constraints
An aside. The Beat Generation’s William S Burroughs was a grandson of William Seward Burroughs, the founder of Burroughs Corporation. The author of Naked Lunch is correctly referred to as William Seward Burroughs II, while his grandfather gets called William Seward Burroughs I.
💬 'JP'
I dunno - wouldn’t go out of my way. Been watching off and on for the last few weeks just to let the brain drain.
Series 1 ★★
I started it way back in the day and it fell off the watch list and ver …
Yeah. Good. Never saw Mad Men - but I like how he can be ‘smooth, suave and sophisticated’ one minute and so ‘quickly’ switch to down and out. It started slow - for me - and …