All The Eye's There Are, Gus

Of Course It's Not That Simple -
 - but then you don't read this blog if you're interested in simply progressing from A to Z via all the letters of the alphabet in between.  We (Conrad, Art, Oscar and Mister Hand) like to get to Z, eventually, having been diverted by way of Alpha Centauri, Bovington Tank Museum, E = MC2, cake and a game of Squidmoid Blintz*.
     So, "Eye" in the pronunciation sense of the letter "I" and also about the ocular units you humans carry about by the pair, securely housed in your skull.  Let the punnery begin!

Illustration I
Please note that the "I" is a Roman numeral 1, which looks like an Upper Case "I".  Art?

Frenzied riotous mayhem
(For Iceland)

     "But Conrad!" I hear you protest.  "This - this is both Politics and Current Affairs!  Two of the subjects you swear to keep clear of!"
     Personally I think you're overdoing the exclamation marks, though I get your point.
     Politics?  Current Affairs?  Pah!  Get out of here!  Get the name of that country, Iceland.  Pronounced "EYEsland", thank you very much.  And the screenshot is there for me to show off my very limited knowledge of Icelandic, which I believe is close to Norwegian.  "Nei Takk!" shouts the banner, which is Icelandic for "No Thanks!", which I know thanks to Siggur Ros' breakthrough album "Takk".

What A Difference A Day Makes
Truly, as these photographs illustrate:

Yesterday: a miserable Thursday

Different perspective: Friday

     Taken from pretty much the same spot.  Of course neither can indicate the temperature, which was uniformly low, yet today it was dry.  That means a lot to Conrad at the bus stop, as it throws a particular cast on the day from that moment on.
     Hmmm.  Can't think of any credible way to refer to "I" here, so we'll move on.

Argus
Now, back to the eyes.  Argus was a giant from Greek mythology, blessed with a hundred eyes.  Art?

Argus, branching out

     He was also known as "Panoptes" which means "All-seeing".  Perhaps so - very useful in all-round spying on people.  Impossible to sneak up on, yet also probably mistrusted: "Who/what are you looking at?*" and thus doomed to always be the sentry not the player.  However, highly vulnerable to flying dust and grit, and if he ever contracted conjunctivitis his doctors would become instantly wealthy. In old age his spectacles would be more akin to a glass diving bell and would have to be mirrored, else the focussed solar rays would ignite his head.

Creature In The Thames
I feel honour-bound to pick up on this Facebook post, about "A creature" seen swimming in the River Thames, with speculative prose about the Loch Ness Monster.  
     WHAT IS THIS CRYPTOZOOLOGICAL** BABBLE!
     "Creature spotted swimming in Thames" - is it a slow news day?  By Ockhams Razor - IT'S A FISH!
     Imagine if you applied this breathless, not to say witless, approach to everyday life?  There you are, flying o'er the landscape in your private jet, looking out of the window and seeing - Creatures!  Creatures moving below!
     They appear to be a species of quadruped, with deadly-dagger head-horns, massing at least half a ton of muscle, and they emit deadly gases in a diabolical daily dose.  Listen to their sinister chorus:  "MOOO.  MOOO."
     They're cows, you idiots.

Okay, now I'm confused -

"P.o.I."
Which refers to "Person Of Interest", as I have been boring you with of late, and the abbreviation is because I have to shoe-horn another "I" reference in there.
     Watching the episode "If-Then-Else",  I have to salute the scriptwriters, who have come up with an ingenious way to kill off all the main characters, repeatedly, yet not have them actually die.  I shan't explain this because - Spoilers.  During part of this episode The Machine, in an effort to speed up matters, substitutes generic language instead of actual human speech, to comic effect: "Transparent excuse for conversation", "Witty sign-off", "Moderate expression of satisfaction."
     Hmm.  Perhaps you had to be there.
     Also, get this screenshot:

"Batt Park"

     This is Harold teaching The Machine to play chess, in - Battery Park, hence the text title from the observation camera.  Now, take a look at this shot:

Observe the large brick structure just above dead centre

     What do you think that is?  NO!  Not a Squidmoid Blintz arena. It's the site for a battery of artillery pieces, and you can see the embrasures that these cannon would have been aimed through.  So, this explains why "Battery Park" is called "Battery Park."
     BOOUM! - on a two-fold mission to entertain and educate***.  

Oh dear.  Over the limit already and I haven't even begun on the film "Eye in the Sky."  Oh well there's always tomorrow, except I'm on overtime till mid-afternoon and then hope to go see "Hardcore Henry".

Pip pip!


* Because a gentleman never looks below a lady's neckline
** Not a word you're likely to ever see again^.
*** And rant a bit on occasion
^ It means the study of animals not proven to exist - Bigfoot, the chupacabra, et al