1) Devoid of logic, reason or common sense
2) Nothing to do with the title
3) Full of bad puns.
For the rest of the Intro, may I introduce you to the next Doctor Who villain out of my advent calendar?
It's a soft plastic Cyberman, a bit blobby and shapeless (shades of yesterday's Rutan?) but - it's still a Cyberman!
Let Us Begin - With The Milky Way Galaxy
Anyone who read yesterday's blog can probably see this coming from three football pitches away. Let us proceed anyway:
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| Nothing to do with astronomy, and bad puns, yet - there is a certain twisted logic to it. |
This is the final track on Blue Oyster* Cult's magisterial 1973 album "Secret Treaties", and a right stormer it is.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=7xXEtO3bEe0
There's a Youtube link - you might want to mute the first 12 seconds of an advert about something - no idea what, wasn't paying attention, tough luck advertiser and product!
You can also see the front cover of the album, featuring an Me262, which got the band into a bit of bother at the time; however, please note no swastikas - only the BOC logo, which has connections to Kronos, I believe, and one of the Titans, again IIRC.
Astronomy Domine
A track by Pink Floyd. No, not this Pink Floyd, that Pink Floyd! The Syd Barrett version of the band, this is an instrumental that allows that madcap genius full reign on guitar hooks and swirls. Anothter Youtube link:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=pJh9OLlXenM
There should be an acute accent over the "e" but alas, Blogger lacks the font chops to manage it.
Venus And Mars
Sticking with the music theme**, this is the title track from the eponymous album*** by Paul McCartney and Wings.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Zc1Ygaz2v1g
That's a link to the whole album. No, no, don't thank me. Just part of BOOJUM!s remit to educate, inform and spifflicate.
Stars
Well - given that the picture is from the Otrem^^, this is probably a collection of Z-list has beens who were slightly famous in the Eighties.
Stars
Yes, plural. The Daily Star, which is like The Metro, but with more added topless women and lower journalistic standards than The Sun^^^.
The Sun
This is rather like The Metro, but with added topless women.
And no, you're not going to get any pictures of them, you seedy rapscallion rogues!
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| Look! Look at this repellent rag! just turn to - no, wait a minute, hang on - |
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| A couple of Meteors in flight |
The Pole Star
Pretty much. How many famous Poles do you know? I can offer Jan Sobieski. General Wladyslaw Anders. Lech Walensa. The Pope.
Pah! <makes expressive sweeping gesture with arms, hits overhead light, cowers a bit> I give you - Marie Curie!
Yes, yes, I know what you're thinking - if they called them "bussers" then the sportswear industry would have a hard jobs sell - Oh! Sorry, you want to know who Marie was?
A Polish scientist, Vulnavia.
She won the Nobel Prize. Twice.
That word "radioactivity"? She created it.
Professor at the University of Paris? Check. First woman professor there ever.
First politically-named element? Yup. "Polonium". Named by - Marie Curie.
| When you appear on a 20,000 zloty note, you've made it in Poland |
"More Stars Than There Are In Heaven"
This is an MGM boast during the headiest days of the studio system. Let Conrad illustrate:
| Lies! |
There are 100 billion stars in the Milky Way alone. How many stars did MGM have under contract? A hundred? A thousand? A million? The entire population of Planet Earth? Pah! <is careful not to wave arms around, merely does jazz hands> get out of here MGM! 100 billion is for this galaxy alone.
Here endeth tonight's lesson. Well, okay, not so much a lesson as a sustained rant.
* There ought to be an umlaut here, so please use your imagination.
** Ha ha. I kill myself^.
***<"Eponymous" - the same name as. Pseuds use this a lot> - yes, thank you Mister Hand!
^ Not literally, or you wouldn't be reading this. A minor point but an important one, I feel.
^^ Backwards. Like the staff. Cruel, yes, but accurate, I'm afraid.
^^^ Yes, this is possible. It takes a lot of work to get below the bottom of the barrel, but these boys manage it.
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