🔗 A Little Help From My Friends?
Jack London used to buy story ideas from the young Sinclair Lewis. He blamed his “damnable lack of origination”: “I’m damned if my stories just come to me,” he wrote. “I had to work like the devil for the themes.”
💬 Futility Closet
➕
expression, you see — with me — is far easier than invention.
💬 Jack London ~ writing to Elwyn Hoffman,
Crucial Track 🎵 May 5, 2026
"Steppin' Out" by Joe Jackson
I was listening to the new Joe Jackson album - really rather good - but for me - it still doesn’t meet the excellence of Joe’s crucial track.
🖋️ When Can You Swear?
Leon reposted this 🔗 Disparaging Nouns | Forking Mad+ … with some commentary. Got a couple of comments back in turn - so I thought I would pop over to see what was being said in context - because personally I had never heard of ‘walloper’ … Brit here with a ‘lifetime’ in the USA and 6 years .. so far … across the Tasman.
But then he moved on.
Crucial Track 🎵 May 4, 2026
"(Don't Fear) The Reaper" by Blue Öyster Cult
Prompt Share a song you love that has parentheses (in the title).
A song that would have been in my ‘Just Good Songs’ playlist the day I heard it - it’s just that 🍎 hadn’t got round to inventing it - mainly because mere mortals didn’t have the internet.
👁️ There’s a lot to styling even a few pages isn’t there?😖
👁️ Two new sources added to my ‘central aggregator’ today .. restyling and leaning as I go.
Crucial Track 🎵 May 3, 2026
"Rockin' In The Free World (Glastonbury 2009)" by Neil Young
Live. Glastonbury. Well over ten minutes. Neil rockin' out.
In Obsidian there is a plugin called ‘Style Setting’ written by ‘@mgmeyers’. I wonder if a similar plug in could be developed and worked on MicroBlog?
It’s a user friendly mechanism for people to talk to the custom CSS using simple form changes that get applied to the CSS?
… just in case there is anyone out there with some spare time on their hands @AndySylvester 😉 … and I am not sure whether this would be before or after creating a presentation layer for Feedland et al so I can have it look like the rest of my sites.
To me - before would make most sense - and the first use case could be interfacing just to the Feedland CSS?
Filed in ‘A Boy Can Dream Can’t He’?
Getting there.
People First - All Else Follows
It is what it is - and this is no exception. Too early to get excited.
So this right here is what might happen
👁️ You don’t want to rebuild your site too often when it is on the ‘larger’ side. Yet to unpack the specifics behind ‘larger’.
Crucial Track 🎵 May 2, 2026
"Hi Ren" by Ren Gill
Stunning. A friend shared this with me last year. If you want to listen to a totally original and highly talented artist - start here.
People will be more important in the future, not less.
💬 Mark Zuckerberg
Whilst I fervently believe that - I don’t ~believe him~ think he knows what that really means.
Now - Not Important
⇩
Zuck Now
⇩
Zuck In The Future
⇩
⇩
⇩
⇩
⇩
⇩
⇩
⇩
⇩
⇩
⇩
⇩
⇩
⇩
⇩
⇩
⇩
⇩
⇩
⇩
⇩
⇩
⇩
⇩
⇩
⇩
⇩
⇩
⇩
⇩
⇩
⇩
⇩
⇩
⇩
⇩
⇩
⇩
⇩
⇩
John Now
⇩
John In The Future
⇩
The Future - Very Important
Crucial Track 🎵 May 1, 2026
"Permanating" by Steven Wilson
In the Venn Diagram of music that jax and I both like - this one sits high ... so clearly needs to be pulled out first.
👁️ Its decided. Farewell Reeder … Hello (again) NetNewsWire old friend.