First world worry: I’ve just taken delivery of the fine “Abstract Heart” from Zervas & Pepper, which is as fine an album as I’ve heard all year. My question is this: my copy comes in a cardboard digipack – both sides of which are open ended. The right hand side has the CD tucked inside in a neat little inner sleeve, while the left hand side is completely empty. It feels like there should be a lyric booklet in there, which would be a really great thing to have, particularly for this album.

Pray tell; who else’s got a copy, and does yours have a booklet insert of any kind?

A few if us are mini-mingling at FOPP this morning to torture ourselves by attempting to resist the lure of retail therapy. We’ll be the ones fidgeting and mumbling to each other. Do come along too if you can.

I think this idea of Johnny’s may have enough legs to merit a re-boot.

Anyone care to guess which LP has this cobblers gracing it’s back sleeve?

That’s just made my day! Blissful memories of countless fly-bys at air shows. It will be sad when she’s no longer airworthy; the fruits of the white heat of technology have mostly been cloned or improved upon and moved to the far east, but there was a time, and it wasn’t that long ago.

http://www.vulcantothesky.org/

…can do astonishing things.

Not a day goes by that I don’t hear further cause to despair from the behaviours of the morons who call themselves ISIS, or another of its variants. Assuming that no-one is content to leave them to get on with it, whatever it is supposed to be, until four or five centuries hence their adherent’s descendants undergo some sort of enlightenment and think to themselves, “Oh dear, what *have* we been doing all these years?”, what options are open to the rest of the world, if any?

Does anyone have any really practical ideas? “Hearts & Minds” is a non-starter, as far as I can tell, so is it time to hand out the guns and ammo yet? How long do we wait? How much cultural capital do we allow them to destroy before we fight back? Where are the hawks when you think you might usefully call them to action? Why does it seem there’s no concerted and seriously robust international response? Does anyone in the west, outside academia, even give a shit?

24% of the population bought the Tory mantra. Here’s a view from over the pond.

http://www.nytimes.com/2015/05/08/opinion/paul-krugman-triumph-of-the-unthinking.html?smid=tw-share

Whatever you think about their antics there’s no denying their entertainment value! Yes, its Clarkson, May and Hammond, and they’re back, back, back!

In a huge scoop for The Afterword I can reveal that they are launching a new motoring show, dedicated to improving the quality of the driving experience for all UK drivers (you’ll want to be sure to stay on board now, you Jock jokers – it won’t be available outside the Union!).

They’ll be campaigning for our vehicle excise duty to be spent on the warm black sticky tar stuff they pound into the holes in the road, ensuring our Maybach alloys stay undented!

Never mind the election results, it’s time to celebrate!

It’ll soon be time to tune in to weekly japes (I said japes, not Japs) with Pot Rage!

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