For Many Millions Of Musos -
Their first exposure to this word - I'm going to have to muster a definition here, aren't I? <weary sigh> okay okay, allow me to fire up the coffee machine and manifest an Americano first, and I'll sample a piece of the cornbread I made, too.
Not bad, not bad, considering I've not made if for years. The rec
ANYWAY 'Reprise' comes from the Old French 'Rependre', meaning 'To take back', and is primarily used in music, meaning 'The repeating of an earlier theme'. Art!
Come on, you knew I'd slip one of their songs in here if possible. As I mentioned above, to everyone except music teachers, this was a novel noun.
"What is he banging on about now?" I hear you question. "He can't have been at the gin, May is a dry month, so it must be dementia. Or stupidity."
You are almost correct, I plan to see in Friday the 30th of May in the evening with a can or two of Old Speckled Hen - stick a pin in that reference, we'll be coming back to it.
I shall explicate. Art!
Yes, this is a scene from "The Boys", specifically from Episode 5 of Season 4, which goes by the title "Beware The Jabberwock, My Son".
Here an aside. Who wrote that nonsense poem "Jabberwocky"? None other than Charles Dodgson, pen-name Lewis Carroll. Who also wrote "The Hunting Of The Snark"? Mister Dodgson again. Where does the name "BOOJUM!" hail from? Why, none other than THOTS. I keep warning you, everything is linked to everything else.
ANYWAY ANYWAY as you can see above, The Boys, along with Stan Edgar and Victoria Neumann, have turned up at Stan's distant and rarely-visited farm, way out in the boonies. She had converted the basement into a virology lab, all the better to experiment on creating a virus that targeted and killed supes. Art!
Yes, we have abruptly changed tack, except not. This is the 1985 comic 'Miracleman', featuring the titular superhuman. What is that slavering beast in the background? Well, if you're experimenting on methods to create superhumans, you test your product on lab animals first, and that used to be a dog, hence the title.
All those who have come to investigate Stan's farming laboratory venture forth into the various environs on campus, seeking to find the missing staff. They find chickens. Except - Art!
Not your average Rhode Island Red, I'm sure you'll agree. I needed that second frame to demonstrate what bloody execution the ruthless clucker had inflicted, because the previous still isn't very well lit. Now you know why I mentioned Old Speckled Hen, because in this case the chook is spattered with gore and guts. Art!
Broody befeathered bulletproof bantams bloodily bewildering Butcher.
Where is the 'Reprise' here? O I thought you'd never ask!
Many years ago, in the early years of BOOJUM! which is almost a dozen years old now, and I never thought I'd type those words, we featured a set of incredibly dangerous animals, mostly so that Conrad could work out onomatopoeic names for them, which he found amusing even if nobody else did. Art!
Say hello to my great big friend, Tony The Ten-Ton Terror Toad, custom-bred in a CIA lab, next to a 409 bus for scale. His modus operandi was quite simple; his handlers pointed him at a target and he sat on it. Problem solved. Art!
This is Frank The Ferociously Farting Frog. He farts. I know, I know, hardly a superpower, yet if you want to clear the Mordorvidian Embassy in order to crack their safe, you send in Frank. Just be careful not to ignite a naked flame until you've properly aired the room, you'd look pretty silly minus your eyebrows. Art!
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| An Old Clev - OMY GOD! IT'S CLARISSA THE CANNIBAL COMBAT CHICKEN! RUN! RUN FOR YOUR LIVES! |
Yes, you were laughing at me back in 2015, weren't you? Who's laughing now, Redshirt Bodyguard with a hole the size of a dinner-plate through them?
Conrad seems to recall that Clarissa had been bred along the lines of Tony, and was the size of a kangaroo. I think the CIA scientists wanted her to be cheaper than a Belgian Malinois, with no urination problems.
So. Clearly, one of the suits involved in "The Boys" has more than a passing acquaintance with BOOJUM! I shall continue to monitor the situation.
Terrifying In A Quiet Way
Hands, tentacles and other misc. appendages up who's heard of "The Necronomicon"? For those unaware, it's the cod encyclopaedia invented by H. P. Lovecraft, supposedly created by the mad Arab Adbul Alhazred. He invented it in the early Twenties, and other horror authors also mentioned it.
In the Forties the author Manly Wade Wellman once jokingly asked an antiquarian bookseller if he had a copy of TN, and felt the hairs on the back of his neck stand up when told 'Yes!'. Thankfully matey couldn't find it and Manly didn't hang around for a more thorough search. Art!
That's Manly to starboard, and his excellent short story collection about 'Silver John' to port. Well worth checking out and you can find it as a free PDF on teh Interwebz.
What is all this the preamble to? Bear with me. For I was reading an item utterly unconnected with either 'The Boys' or South Canadian multinationals, and stumbled across this.
I expect Russell Vought to take over the reins at Musk’s so-called Department of Government Efficiency. Vought, the author of Project 2025, and Trump’s budget director in both his first and second terms, is an inside player who — unlike Musk — knows how to get things done without causing widespread backlash. He’s likely to work quietly but effectively.
Oh aye? What's he going to do when he retires from the political arena? Art!
Conrad will continue to monitor the situation.
"The War Illustrated Edition 209 22nd June 1945"
We have moved beyond the first half of this publication and onto the central montage that they feature in each edition. Art!
"Along The Hard Road To Victory" is the over-arching title, being bracketed by the dates 1939 and 1945, when the war began and ended (in Europe, at least).
Conrad is not going to analyse all these photographs at once, we'd be ten times over the Word Count if I did. Instead, let's take the very first photograph. Art!
How very coy. No mention of how the Sinister Union joined in on the invasion of Poland two weeks after their bezzie mates the Nazis had invaded. At this time, mind, the Sinisters were still an ally, or at least not an enemy, or at least not openly an enemy. Also take note that the mighty Teuton war machine was a lot less mechanised than they liked to pretend, since those aren't diesel trucks in disguise, gentle reader.
Conrad's Cakery Makery
I finally remembered to get a photograph of the flapjack I made at the weekend. Art!
It's a bit friable, which might be down to Your Modest Artisan not tamping the mix down hard in the baking pan, or perhaps it could have done with a longer baking time. The clock is ticking on how quickly I can devour these, as one cannot allow them to go mouldy. That would be rude. Art!
This is the aforementioned cornbread, made with cornmeal that I discovered hiding in a tub at the back of a cupboard. I made it to use up the old cornmeal, as I've gotten a fresh bag in order to tackle a couple of Ukrainian recipes. Art!
The 'Best Before' there is a tad blurry, thanks to being so close to the lens, so allow me to explain that it says 'May'.
That is, 'May 2014'. The bag I finished off was dated 'April 2014'. Don't worry, I've eaten a slice of the end result and it's pretty nice fare, savoury and just made for dipping in the meatball goulash I'll be having for lunch tomorrow.
Finally -
I bought a packet of Ginger Nuts yesteryon, thanks to reading about them as being a recipe ingredient, which I thought was in my Ukrainian recipe book. But no. Where on earth have I scanned this requirement? Forsooth, if I cannot find it - gasp! - I may have to eat the biscuits instead. Horrors!
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