It seems to have not done a jot as far as the greater society is concerned.

Anthropologists?

This is the story of a hedge fund manager at Goldman Sachs who bought his ex-boss’s house. He then bulldozed it and built a bigger, better house in its place. Why? Revenge because he was passed over for promotion. He set up his own hedge fund and is a billionaire.

If his existence was expunged from history by Dr Who, it wouldn’t be much of a story because all that would happen is that his wealth would have been transferred to another superfluous pile of crap.

Who is a better candidate for the Useless Pile of Crap award?

http://www.stuff.co.nz/business/world/72374316/banker-buys-exboss-house-and-rebuilds-it-in-revenge

Nice (or, ahem, above Par*) profile of the pride of Dunfermline.

Of particular interest to AWers may be from around 42 mins – her rendition of All the Pretty Little Horses with Danny Thompson. Spellbinding.

And – she was, and remains, very agreeable to the eye. Just saying.

*about three people might get this Scottish fitba’ reference😉

http://bbc.in/1uY4rfz

All In Together Now by Ol Dirty Bastard.

It’s completely insane, he means every word he sings (raps? It’s Ol Dirty Bastard, what he does can’t be described as either), the music is powerful. This tune is immense.

Or it might be C.R.E.A.M. which is an obvious choice and lacks the insanity that All In Together has.

I have spent a proportion of this evening listening to The Wu Tang Clan. Brilliant at their best.

The most evocative of seasons is pretty much upon us. The “season of mist and mellow fruitfulness” if you’re Keats, the “f*ck*n’ c*nt” if you’re Malcolm Middleton…

I love this season and I love Autumnal songs so please post a few…

Silver Season is out on 9th October, and this track is from it. Sounds like it carries on from where Rain Plans left off, which to this pair of ears is no bad thing. Came up quite high in our albums of 2013 I recall, or perhaps I just imagined that….

It’s PC gawn mad? The health & safety brigade sticking its nose in where it’s not wanted and bullying the hard-working British motorist. My old man used to smoke 60 a day. Never did him any harm, god rest his soul. Why aren’t the police out there catching proper villains?

http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-wales-politics-34219546

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?

Here’s an interesting curio I stumbled across – a 1980 World in Action investigation into Record Hyping. It all seems charmingly low rent compared to the marketing strategies of today. And it seems Brass in Pocket may not have been a legit chart topper…

50? Pfft….

http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-scotland-34323967

Roy Greenslade in The Guardian lauds the Current Bun and its lampooning of the Police and the inconsistent, not to say perplexing, no to say asinine, approach it is taking to high profile cases currently.

The piece is quoted in full below.

Thoughts? —————————————————————— The Sun has registered its outrage and incredulity at the decision by the Metropolitan police not to charge the peer it pictured and filmed appearing to take drugs.

In July, the Sun on Sunday ran photographs, plus footage on its website, that seemingly showed Lord Sewel using a rolled-up banknote to snort white powder, which the newspaper maintained was cocaine.

“Lord Coke”, as the paper termed him in a headline, was shown partying with two women who were said to be prostitutes and, following the exposure, Sewel resigned from the House of Lords, where he was deputy speaker and chair of its privileges and conduct committee.

Two days after the initial story was published, Metropolitan police officers raided Sewel’s flat in London’s Dolphin Square and launched an investigation into the matter.

But the Met issued a statement on Tuesday saying: “Following a review of all the material, including a forensic examination of an address in » Continue Reading.

…a couple of years ago, and posted it in the old place. Luckily, I kept the draft in the Notes section of my iPad. I found it tonight and read it again. I am really proud of it. Sorry, but I just am. So, for any of you lurkers, newbies and people who don’t know my ramblings, here is an opening chapter from…..

Who knows?

The day started……..well, unlike any other, before or since, frankly. The early morning, late September sunlight streamed through the open bathroom window. Onto my face. On the floor. I squinted at the light. I opened my mouth, dry and rough. It felt like something had died in it. I suspect that it tasted like it, too. I lifted my head and quickly lowered it back down again. It throbbed. A lot. I rolled over onto my back. I was dressed in the clothes I had been wearing when I had left the house, the night before. Something hurt. A lot. I pulled myself up, hanging onto the edge of the bath, into a sitting position. I twisted round so that my back was against the side of the bath. I sat with my eyes closed, » Continue Reading.

I was at Bradford University 1983-87 and saw this band develop and prosper. They have always been a favourite of mine but I lost interest in the early 1990s.

Any other old/current fans here?

They made some great albums in the mid to late 1980s and are still going strong.

This is excellent if of its time: