How did you guess? It's an easy source of inspiration, thank you.
Hopefully you, my incomparable audience, will pause to read the blog before it goes the way of all flesh. If flesh were electronic. And distributed between servers. Also available on multiple platforms.
O you know what I mean!
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| If flesh were grass. Close enough |
Oh The Trauma
Conrad did dog-sitting duties this afternoon, the most awful bit being Edna's blind determination to lick his ears off, which passed after 10 seconds. After that it was drink tea, read book* and have her asleep on the settee or my lap until the elders of the tribe returned, whence she instantly awoke.
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| Yes I know it's an old photo but I didn't have my phone with me SO THIS WILL HAVE TO DO! |
Good!
Last night's Gluten-free Roast Banana Bread With Walnuts And Maple Glaze was judged to be most acceptable by Wonder Wifey. The glaze made it, apparently. Next time I'll know to salvage and re-use it.
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| Yes I know it's an old photo but I didn't have my phone with me SO THIS WILL HAVE TO DO! |
A Little Musical Criticism
Fear not, Simon and Garfunkel - I always feel impelled to write "Garglefunk" for some reason - fans, nor need Lemon Jelly worry either, especially since lyrics don't really feature in their compositions (can't really call them songs).
Today we focus the burning spot created by our magnifying glass on - The Mars Volta. I'm currently playing all their songs on a loop and some of those lyrics are - well, not so much off-the-wall as never-in-the-room-in-the-first-place.
Here we look at "Ouroborous" and there is a bit of guesswork here since there is no punctuation, so defining where one line ends and another begins is tricky. Anyway:
"It appears to me"
Okay, fine, a non-ambiguous start. A good narrative beginning.
"quoting alarms"
Ah - rather vague this one. What alarms? Fire alarms? Poetical alarms? Tornado siren alarms? More definition needed!
"the guillotine smirks in your house I smothered"
Nope, sorry, you've lost me there. Did the narrator smother smirks or guillotines? Can you even smother a guillotine, given that it's an inanimate artefact? More disturbingly, what on earth is this third party doing with a home guillotine!
"sight unseen sworn to harm"
Is this the third party? The predeliction for violence here is worrying, very worrying, given that this person has a personal decapitation device in the living room.
"ground to a powder"
Now this is just being silly! You cannot grind a guillotine to powder, given that it has a substantial metal blade. And if this actually refers to smirks, then you can't grind them to a powder, either**.
All The Mars Volta songs are like this. I rest my case.
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| The Marsh Volga. Close enough |
So - Tanks?
Yes indeed. You may already be familiar with the diminutive 5 ton British Vickers Light Tank Mk VI. Yes, Victoria, 5 tons is small for a tank. A number were modified to mount 4 BESA machine-guns elevated at an angle, as an anti-aircraft tank.
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| The Terror of the skies. Perhaps. |
Unusually Conrad cannot find any further information about the AA version. This implies that i) not many were made and ii) those that were made didn't do very well. It could certainly chuck a lot of bullets around - 3,200 per minute or 53 per second - but given it's small size I don't think it could carry much ammo, so no sustained firing the order of the day.
A Walrus. A Super Walrus!
Continuing the blog's promotion of the unloved and ugly animals that begin with the letter "W", and the walrus.
Er - actually that would be a Supermarine Walrus.
"Yes, yes, obviously!" I can hear you cry, dear readers. "A Walrus is a marine mammal. Show us this superhero - although not if it's quite as odd as the Wonder Woman Walrus."
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| Conrad has grace enough to blush |
Ahem. Supermarine were an aircraft manufacturer, and the above is the Walrus, a seaplane.
Not quite what you were expecting? Sorry, BOOJUM! has to take walrus-promotion where it is found.
* "Fighting with Popski's Private Army" by Park Yunnie
** Not unless you surgically remove their mouth, freeze-dry it, then process it in a blender. Which are probably lyrics on another TMV song ...
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