Wayne Shorter
The Wayne Shorter Quartet have just
released Without A Net. Hardly prolific, the fourth album in thirteen
years. Then again, he is eighty years old, blowing saxophones with
the lungs of someone half that age.
Like Miles Davis, there's no sign of
Wayne Shorter ever standing still musically, ever just going through
the motions or treading water. Amazing to imagine maintaining that
level of creativity and drive into your eighties.
The Baltimore Max Walls
White shirts, skin tight black pants.
The Baltimore Ravens. Superbowl winners. Who's brave enough to tell
them they looked like a load of Max Walls?
Why isn't that rhyming slang?
“He's gone down clutching his groin
Alan.”
“Yeah, watch the slow-mo. I think
he's taken one in the Max's.”
Compulsory dog chipping
The Dog Owners' Trust spokesman said,
as if this were a screaming endorsement, that “the vets are all for
it”. Right behind the measure, your vets. At £30 a pop (and watch
the cost soar once it's compulsory) there's a surprise. Equally
amazing:
Bricklayers: support compulsory
wall-building measures.
MP's: fully endorse compulsory expense
fiddling, croneyism and nepotism.
Football: strikers think compulsory
diving in the area “will make the game more exciting”.
I've got similar for: dodgy disc
jockeys, high court judges, and Jeremy Clarkson, but operate under
guidelines (BLISS' Rukes they're called) that preclude writing them
here.
Technical English test
They're bringing one in for six year
olds. I took the one in the Guardian. I hope it was an adult version.
Twelve out of fourteen. The questions got harder. I didn't get the
gerund or the prepositional clause-spotting questions right.
I was pleased to correctly identify
'pride' as both collective and abstract. I understand that if kids
are encouraged to read and write and pick up the right books and
newspapers and magazines, and if an enthusiasm for literature can be
instilled, they will get a lot of things right by accident. You don't
need to know the technicalities or they're, there, and their, or of
effect or affect, to get them right, instinctively. Yet I regularly
receive, and am asked to check, documents produced by people with
bachelors letters after their names, who would tell you they have
bachelors letter after there names, and how having a degree has
effected they're employment prospects.
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