It’s probably just me - but every time I hear this Apple ad …I am reminded of this Rowan Atkinson TV show.

Here’s an idea - don’t vote … be isolated and uninvolved in what is happening around you … and then at least you too can say - without any doubt:

“I am a microcosm of America.”

WATCH

#swingleft #vote #choose

Pity The Nation … Lawrence Ferlinghetti … one of the locals … 100 years old next year.

Call it a public service. Links to the first 8 of the BBC TV Series Grumpy Old Men that started in 2003.

1 of Series 1

2 of Series 1

3 of Series 1

4 of Series 1

1 of Series 2

2 of Series 2

3 of Series 2

4 of Series 2

Just had a great conversation that was about how we might get seemingly disparate organizations focussed on working together, to broaden the common message, rather than working separately.

During the conversation I was reminded of The People’s Front of Judea

Good Grief

… and sadly so common it barely scrapes into the news cycle.

🎵 Khruangbin @ Villain - Pitchfork Live

Oh My - Floyd from the archives. All standing around playing their electric guitars and not a cable to be seen …

This from the Daily Show

Now, I write not as ‘An Englishman in New York - but certainly ‘in America’ and tend to agree with the French Ambassador. Not Noah.

Is that the ‘European' in me?