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Here Come the Warm Jets

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Littleborough-Rochdale / Belfast / Niagara / Toronto Some people call me Cranky Born in Europe. Aiming to live out my remaining days on that continent. (Note: There are many, many days remaining.)

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Here Come the Warm Jets @jfdc21.bsky.social · Jan 22

The start of sharing old posts from that other app, in preparation of moving here full-time. Origin: My old FB account, July 2016.

Here Come the Warm Jets @jfdc21.bsky.social · 6h

There’s a kicker in the final two paragraphs.

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Australia’s first formal treaty with Indigenous traditional owners passed in Victoria

Step towards reconciliation hailed as ‘a historic moment’ with premier Jacinta Allan saying it gives Aboriginal Australians the power to shape policies that affect their lives

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Russian army chiefs torturing and executing soldiers who refuse to fight in Ukraine, report says

Investigation lists 101 superiors accused of tactics such as using drones to ‘finish’ off retreating troops and sending soldiers on death missions

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“America is Waiting” [1981; d. Bruce Conner; music: Brian Eno and David Byrne]

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America is waiting - David Byrne & Brian Eno

YouTube video by 0ldfinger

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Here Come the Warm Jets @jfdc21.bsky.social · 2d

Lady Splurtington of Crosspaws: My daughter; my sweet angel; my wee tiger shrimp; my whole heart. ♥️

Here Come the Warm Jets @jfdc21.bsky.social · 2d

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801 Live - Lagrima / T.N.K. (Tomorrow Never Knows)

YouTube video by Ichbinauchhier43

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New Year’s Eve, 2010.

Yes, I’m oodles of fun at parties.

Here Come the Warm Jets @jfdc21.bsky.social · 2d

I’m such a huge fan of John Cale that I bought a ticket to this a while ago on the off chance that a bucket of money would magically appear between now and this weekend.

Here Come the Warm Jets @jfdc21.bsky.social · 2d

So far, so good.

Here Come the Warm Jets @jfdc21.bsky.social · 2d

Going to break from this vehicle for the entirety of November.

The metaphoric house is on fire, and I need to focus on my long-desired goal of starting with a clean slate a long, long way away from what has always been a deeply unhappy locale for me.

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Sarah Weinman @sarahweinman.com · 2d

Lmao what (from today's Breaker newsletter)

(Exclusive.) Bari Weiss this week clocks up four weeks on the job as chief booker (sorry, editor-in-chief) of CBS News. Breaker hears that she has unimpressed staffers with a series of bold ideas in the 9 am call.

Last week, following the jewel heist at The Louvre, Weiss suggested they interview author Dan Brown. Staffers questioned what expertise in the matter Brown would provide CBS News viewers? Brown is well known as the bestselling author of the 2003 mystery novel, The Da Vinci Code, about a murder at The Louvre.

On Tuesday’s 9 am call, Weiss suggested a story about how people who are scared of climate change aren’t having children. “She is showing her worst self,” one CBS News journalist told Breaker. “People are running to avoid her.”

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Here Come the Warm Jets @jfdc21.bsky.social · 2d

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Timothy West & Prunella Scales - 60 years of marriage (interview) (UK) 15/Nov/2023

YouTube video by Mark 1333

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Gym “Look the Other Way” Jordan belongs in gaol.

Here Come the Warm Jets @jfdc21.bsky.social · 3d

Another reason I’ve always loathed the LA Dodgers:

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How the Dodger baseball stadium shaped LA – and revealed its divisions

When the Dodgers moved to Los Angeles 60 years ago, the construction of their stadium was meant to forge the city’s rise to modernity. Instead it provoked a racially charged battle of eviction and pro...

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Here Come the Warm Jets @jfdc21.bsky.social · 3d

Apparently, this lunatic post from the gilded fascist is real.

Also: “my” ballroom? Not “his” House to begin with.

Here Come the Warm Jets @jfdc21.bsky.social · 3d

I’ve been saying for two years now that the Oilers should offload this backend waste, but then they went ahead and overpaid him.

Here Come the Warm Jets @jfdc21.bsky.social · 3d

RIP, the truly great Jack DeJohnette.

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Miles Davis - Sivad [4.0 Quad Surround Sound]

YouTube video by Multi-Channel Music

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Episodes of The Twilight Zone showing overnight on City!

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Turned on the Criterion Channel stream on returning home, and this Jack Bond-directed feature from 1988 is showing.

It’s really quite a lovely and charming piece of work.

Here Come the Warm Jets @jfdc21.bsky.social · 4d

Listening to my iPod on the train up to Allandale Waterfront – calling derby in Alliston this afternoon – and I’ve been pleasantly surprised to realize that years ago I downloaded the audio of some of Bill McClintock’s best mashes of the day and made an album out of them.

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Foreigner and Stevie Wonder - “Ice Cold Ground”

YouTube video by Bill McClintock

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Here Come the Warm Jets @jfdc21.bsky.social · 6d

Lest we all get too giddy about Doug Ford’s clever tariff broadsides against Emperor Tang, remember that Dougie’s primary motivations are:

1. To exert outsized and rogue/proxy influence/pressure over the PMO.

2. To distract from his own boatload of corruption and cronyism.

Here Come the Warm Jets @jfdc21.bsky.social · 6d

That’s some massively expensive recording studio time just to try and off your talent, Mr. Marshall.

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MOLOCH - Devil Take Me (1982) (HQ Audio)

YouTube video by Bigfoot UK

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Via @mollyjongfast.bsky.social

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Canadian Press interviews Geddy Lee about the Jays as they head into the World Series, and I’m in full agreement with him on this point.

Leafs games are the worst for this sort of sonic pummelling. It doesn’t enhance the game; it ruins it.

Here Come the Warm Jets @jfdc21.bsky.social · 7d

I don’t have many CDs or LPs left since the great purge of 2013, but I’m glad I kept this box set.

Here Come the Warm Jets @jfdc21.bsky.social · 7d

I remember Don’s television commercials for Gioia Spaghetti!