This goes some way to explain why D’Angelo was so special. He was Miles Davis, Stevie Wonder, Al Green, Sly Stone, Prince. And utterly unique. He was music. “A genius beyond words.” www.theguardian.com/music/2025/o...

Some individuals impact lives like meteorites. You don't need to meet them or know them to be moved by them, to be inspired by them, to be sad when they are gone because they made you happy when they were here.
On D'Angelo, Dec '14: talkinganimal.co.uk/dangelo/

One of the greats. The absolute greats. Of all eras, of all genres.

Later. At this point in time, and for several hours before I can even contemplate consuming the sausage-maybe-not-sausage in front of me, I must read and decipher the complex wording supplied with said product so I might make a truly informed decision. I am aiming for 60:40 certainty, minimum.

I take displeasure, sir, at your assumption non-English consumers are less intelligent than their English counterparts. I can assure you, from great experience, the English can be just as dim as everyone else, if not considerably more so.

True. True. I have seen non-meat plant-based vegetarian burgers with big green leaf logos on the packaging for decades and I just stand there, ears bleeding, searching for help.

Phew. I feel for those who buy meat because they want meat only to find out what they have bought is not meat. Reading words is hard.

www.rottentomatoes.com/m/one_battle...

One perfect score after another.
Can. Not. Wait.

"The UK equivalent of bullfighting"

Reminds me of an Ernst Haeckel illustration

#edfringe needs to alt text

Edinburgh? Fringe? Kids? Live Manga! HIGHLY recommended. www.edfringe.com/tickets/what...

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Two Steps? A new Yazmin Lacey tune? Great great. But what's that? It heralds a new album? Teal Dreams? So, so, so excited. But. 24th October? How am I supposed to wait that long?

It's a bumper-wasp year: here are my top tips on how to dine alongside wasps, without getting stung.

GET INVOLVED! Tell us what wasps want at YOUR picnic: www.sumnerlab.co.uk/wasp-picnic-...

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I’m petrified about today’s science news. Genetically modifying crabs to have cheetah genes? This could go sideways fast.

Grifters. Cynical, deceitful grifters.

I mean, it’s wrong, but yeah. Ship. Damn. Motherfudger. This list. This god.

This is where I am. New book in the making. Thousand words a day if I can. They don’t have to be good words.

I think Ezra Collective just won Glastonbury

A lesson in the power of concise prose

Sly Stone, one of the most influential and groundbreaking musicians of the late-Sixties and early-Seventies who smashed the boundaries of rock, pop, funk and soul, has died at age 82
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‘Sly Lives!’ is More Than Just Questlove’s Doc on Sly Stone. It’s a Funked-Up Look at Genius

More on the profile of the man behind Sly and the Family Stone

Are all muppets the same species just with wildly different phenotypes like dogs or are there a lot of different species of muppet