God bless us, every one!
My favourite folkie Christmas songs.
I’m not capable of great emotional complexity, but I do come near to it when a player I like, but who plays for Arsenal, goes and gets himself injured
Bukayo Saka out for ‘many weeks’, Arteta reveals, in Arsenal injury blow
My favourite reggae Christmas tunes
The middle classes can be quite confrontational, because they don’t associate confrontation with violence
Kevin Bridges Kevin Bridges - The Overdue Catch-Up via @bbciplayer
In honour of the day
Here Comes The Summer - The Undertones
Panto and post-panto pints put paid to my plan for Solstice at Stonehenge, but here are some pics from previous years
Possibly the best thing I’ve seen in a theatre since The Clash at the Lyceum
Sleeping Beauty at Salisbury Playhouse
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Things that annoy me #1035
When you need a password and MFA to see some IT documentation.
Especially when it doesn’t work in my default browser
I enjoyed That Christmas last night. It’s a sweet film. It said in the credits that it was based on three different stories, which does make sense, in that the film has a lot going on. Good fun, in any case
Gratuitous seaside postcard
Powershell to get a list of micro.blog posts
Set your headers:
$headers = @{
"Authorization" = "Bearer $Token"
"Content-Type" = "application/json"
}
…where $Token is retrieved from micro.blog
Then:
$Uri = https://micro.blog/micropub?q=source`&mp-destination=https%3a%2f%2fmattypenny-tweets.micro.blog%2f
$i = Invoke-RestMethod -Uri $Uri-Method Get -Headers $headers
….replacing mattypenny-tweets.micro.blog with the name of your blog
Then:
$i | select -expand items | select -expand properties | select post-status,published ,content
…which gives the below.
I think you can put start and end dates on the query….I’ll add that in later
Want to read: Season of the Witch: The Book of Goth by Cathi Unsworth 📚
I listened to this podcast in which the author spoke to Mark Ellen and David Hepworth, and the book sounds interesting
The book combines a history of goth with personal memoir, and stuff about the 1980s generally. Unsworth says there was a good queen, Siouxsie Sioux, and a bad queen, Margaret Thatcher
I never saw Goth as being that political tbh, but I’ll be interested to read about it in more detail
Also, Unsworth nominates the Sisters of Mercy single with Alice on one side, and Floorshow on the other as being the Greatest Ever Goth Record….which is, as far as I am concerned, the correct answer 😃
The two best songs which start with the same two words, imho
Goin' back - Dusty Springfield
Going back to my roots - Odyssey
I know next to nothing about Mongolia, so this was interesting
My young friend Tom’s podcast about Khorloogiin Choibalsan - the Stalin of the Steppes
The Hated and the Dead - Khorloogiin Choibalsan
I’m mucking about with the idea of doing some #sketchnote pages on Powershell basics
#Powershell
I read in this month’s Record Collector magazine that:
[David Essex’s] performance of Che Guevara in Evita led to a personal invitation from Fidel Castro to meet in Cuba.
It seems odd that Fidel would want to meet someone mainly because they’d played the part of his comrade on stage
These numbers are quite something ⚽
Brentford have the unusual distinction of being the Premier League’s best side at home (22 points from 24) and its worst on the road (one point from 21).
For some reason, I was thinking this morning about books named after song titles, or lyrics, and whether they’ve ever been of interest to copyright lawyers….then I was in ‘Spoons this morning and saw this beer.
Bit early to try it, sadly
Like weekends, December is too short