Or A Fusion-Powered Pumping Unit As Substitute
NO! I am not referring to that well-known person with two hearts, he of the big blue box. Do keep up!
What I'm talking about here is money, and during my constitutional into Royton I pondered over where it crops up in music. Quite aside from Johnny Cash (ouch) and Dollar - whom you will need a long memory to recall - you get songs like "The Wall Street Shuffle" by 10cc, which is full of both puns and guitar breaks. Art!
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| Godley and Creme later invented the 'Gizmo' |
There was also "Money Money Money" by Abba, where the Swedish millionaires blathered on about being penniless. Conrad has always hated them so that's all you get.
Then we get both The Beatles and The Flying Lizards, who covered "Money (That's What I Want)". Art!
Any lizard will fly if you throw it hard enough
Now we come to the meat of the matter, and a track from "Dark Side Of The Moon" by Pink Floyd, namely "Money". Art!
The music critics all raved about it when I always preferred "Time" or "Brain Damage".
ANYWAY it's now time for A Little Musical Critique concerning this song. Yes, Roger, your turn under the spotlight. I don't think our review will bother Ol' Rog, he's completely out to lunch, dinner and supper too.
See this? That sky is composed of gasses, the money NOT SO MUCH
Yes, that is Elton John
This one requires a little explanation. Back in the day, Elton did indeed follow art into real life by purchasing the ballfoot team Watford. He could afford it, he had lots of the crisp folding stuff thanks to big album sales in South Canada. So, Ol' Rog was being quite prescient here, as "Money" came out in 1973 and Elton didn't make his purchase until 1976.
Next verse!
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| Sadly, Conrad's addiction to collectible volumes hampers the getting of back |
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| An entirely hands-free stack of the smoking variety |
A pink glittery hair-scrunchy
No, of course - obviously! - it's a Lear jet. I remember my work colleague Anne, whose hubbo was a very successful businessman, sufficiently so that he was no longer interested in getting a bigger better car - no, he had his eyes on a helicopter. More as a status-symbol than a practical method of travel. Various successful bands in the Seventies often owned their own small private jets. Art!
There's a whole other story associated with this example of conspicuous consumption, to come at a later date.
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| I beat you with a cudgel out of sheer brutal cruelty. Where's the profit margin there? |
There you go. Money.
Stealing Stopped, Alright
You may remember that Donold Judas Trump, who has no idea how elections in South Canada work, claimed that 'They' - them again - were stealing votes from him and giving them to Biden back in 2020. No evidence, mind, just his rambling incoherent babblings.
Well, there really was election interference in 2020, just not how you might expect. Art!
Here is Tina Peters, one of DJ Tango's cult believers, who was sentenced last week to nine years in prison for: Attempting to influence a public servant (x3); conspiracy to commit criminal personation; official misconduct in the first degree; compliance failure as regards the Secretary of State.
She had VERY ILLEGALLY given other MAGA bampots access to voting machines because, to put it bluntly, she's an idiot. Anyone Pumpkinhead touches ends up covered in ordure. Be warned!
I'm Still Standing
Not Conrad personally, I'm sitting down to type this, and yes, another nod to Elton John. Here I'm referring to the Lake Lure Dam, in North Carolina, which had been suspected of potential failure last week. Art!
That's the dam in normal circumstances. It recently had to cope with Hurricane Helene, which it was not designed for, and there were genuine fears that it might suffer damage, sufficient that the areas downstream were evacuated. Art!
There it is, manfully coping with Helene, and you can see the difference in the quality of the water from the upper photograph. I did try looking online for an emergency spillway and couldn't find one, which doesn't mean there isn't one, yet nobody mentioned it during the flooding risk. No doubt there will be major renovations when the wet weather is past.
"The War Illustrated Edition 195 8th December 1944"
Let's see what's what in this edition, which was focussing strongly on the Allied liberation of Walcheren Island. This was a brief but bloody campaign that finally cleared the mouth of the Scheldt River and thus allowed the enormous port of Antwerp to begin operating, thus relieving logistical pressure. Art!
These are British troops in the advance on Flushing, taking cover against snipers and returning fire with a Bren gun. They seem to be sheltering under a dockside crane, because the words "Verboden Onder De Kraan" are visible, which is surely Dutch for "It Is Forbidden To Be Under The Crane". It's still more forbidden to stand out in the open and get shot, matey. Art!
I also seem to recall that it's actually "Vlissingen"
Finally -
I need to go box up my Sunday Stew, and taste test it to see how spicy it is. I may have overdone the hot sauce. Fortunately we still have lots of soured cream. Plus, if Wonder Wifey hasn't been at what's left of the strawberries, they may vanish too. Sorry but not everything can be earth-shaking news,
What ho!
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