No parking on either side..ok?
It’s started snowing and the film production company weasels have taken over the street. Nobody who lives here can park in front of their house until Friday. If their car gets covered in snow (which it will) they’re gonna have to trapse down the block and around the corner to scrape it off. Gee, I hope this fine art that they’re making is worth it. This morning I was watching some kind of press conference on the BBC about the Hillsborough soccer tragedy. It was Britain’s worst sports disaster when 97 people killed during a crush of Liverpool fans. The report upheld or found cases to answer for misconduct in 92 complaints about police actions. Nothing will be done of course, because time has run out.
The BBC, never one to let a good crisis go to waste found an opportunity to embed some not-so-subtle race mixing into the story.
Band practice is cancelled today because of the snow and because nobody can park here. It’s fine. I don’t feel like doing much anyway. We’ll try again on Thursday. When I looked out the window this morning I saw an elderly Mercedes two door coupe sitting in the middle of the road. I think the movie is about crime, so these gangsters are driving around in fancy cars. They’re making films and TV series here all the fucking time now. It’s becoming somewhat annoying at times.
I’m sorry, we’re making high art here. You’ll have to move your car
I should probably rent this joint out to film companies and make some money off it, but I’m not living in Vermont in the wintertime. This place is a warm fortress because when the old oil boiler finally broke down, I miscalculated the thermal load for the new one, and had an industrial strength unit installed in the basement. It’s probably twice as big as it needs to be, but there’s no danger of it not being able to cope when it’s below freezing. I can hear people talking outside. It’s bloody snowing. What are they doing out there? This place has a tendency to attract people. They stop out the front and have conversations for some reason.
These stories are almost unbelievable, but I think this one is true.
The picture (above) has an interesting back story attached to it. If you are fond of going down rabbit holes the idiotic Snopes which Wikipedia descaribes as a “well-regarded reference for sorting out myths and rumors” on the Internet”, has an entire page about it. I stopped reading after skimming about halfway through it. In my opinion it looks like Snopes was desperate to prove the headline wrong, but after failing to, has erected an impeneterable maze of nonsense to obscure the real facts. It’s a real trip if you have nothing better to do.
Then there’s this…
https://www.instagram.com/p/DRd_Fv2ERFN
Down on Planet Cuckstralia the “new Australians” have started shitting in the streets. Oh dear, what’s happening down there? They better not be doing that on the beaches like they do in Canada…oh no, that’s been deboonked!
They’ve got bigger problems.
Good Day.