Fine Line

Oh this is quite clver and cool!

A Universal Principle

The fundamental structure of the universe ...



Comments welcome as to whom the morons are ...

Tuesday Music Selection - Mo' Jazz

Some musical excursions around jazz this morning , starting of with yet another version of Spooky.

Teresa Bennett - Spooky

Anita O'Day - Let Me Off Uptown

Definitely a hep cat jivin' around the scene.

Louis Jordan - What's The Use Of Getting Sober

I often ask this myself, lol

And finally,

Charlie Parker Quintet- Scrapple From The Apple

Enjoy.

Book 49 - Joss Whedon, Various "BtVS Season 9 Volume 2: On Your Own"

Joss Whedon, Various "Buffy the Vampire Slayer Season 9 Volume 2: On Your Own" (Dark Horse)





First of all, i need to state that graphic novels are still books i read rarely as they have less depth than a normal novel, but beginning to like these a bit more , and as a Buffy fan this one was intriguing. Also, the Buffy comics are good about keeping the flavour of the original TV series.

Not every single thing Buffy does has to be preventing a world-ending apocalypse (although it usually works out that way) and I think that by keeping her storyline a little smaller and her motivations more focused (figure out life, navigate relationships, deal with a changed world, kill vampires, protect the people you love), the writers managed to keep the series reigned in )in this series) to a more manageable scope, and kept it feeling more like the TV show and less like a trip to crazy-town.


The characters all sound like themselves, even as they grow and change in response to what's happened in their lives. The patter of the dialogue still flows the same. The characters… don't quite look the same (in the panels, at least; the cover paintings are quite realistic), but that's not new to this season, and at least they're all consistently identifiable (except for Andrew, who in my opinion is probably the character that looks the farthest from the actor). So overall, I really enjoyed these; they've got the signature Buffy mix of humor and heart and supernatural ass-kicking, all while sticking a little closer to the types of stories that made the series so great

Charmed Again

Now onto series eight of Charmed via the E4 channel which introduces another hot attractive character in the persona of Billy Jenkins , as played by Kaley Cuoco (from the "Big Bang Theory").



The second episode is called Malice in Wonderland.

Book 50 - Eric Hobsbawm "How To Change The World"

Eric Hobsbawm "How To Change The World : Tales Of Marx and Marxism" (Abacus)




This is a powerful argument for the serious re-engagement with Marx and his ideas. The book title is a bit of a misnomer though, as it certainly doesn't contain any blueprint for 'changing the world'. What it does contain is a collection of essays written between 1956 and 2009, most never previously published before in English, many considerably extended, that provide a history of both Marx and Marxism.

You can't fail to be impressed with Hobsbawm's reach, or the breadth of his learning, and that he argues the case for Marx cogently. The relevance for today is that the globalized capitalist world of the last decades had been anticipated in crucial ways by Marx: the concentration of Western economic and financial power in a few hands, high socio-economic inequalities and systemic (capitalist) crises. He foresaw all this from the end of the 19th century.


So, whilst not an instruction manual to bring in the golden age of socialism, this book concerns itself entirely - with the exception of the last chapter - with the history of ideas, the discipline Hobsbawm commands best. The various essays in this collection, ranging from notes on the prehistory and the contemporary reception of Marxism to musings on Gramsci and Marxist thought in the postwar world, are all concerned with Marxism as one major intellectual influence and current in the history of ideas. his is as it should be, because it allows Hobsbawm the necessary distance as well as giving him the freedom to exercise the kind of subtle and nuanced reflection on the nature and spread of ideas in history and their effect on politics that has made him justly famous.

Overall, a Highly recommended read in my estimation.

Bank Sell Off

This also makes me fume. Typical Tory shenanigans!

George Osborne 'Casually' Loses Taxpayers £1billion In RBS Shares Sale

http://www.huffingtonpost.co.uk/2015/08/04/george-osborne-rbs-shares-billion_n_7931154.html?utm_hp_ref=uk

Penny Penny Penny!

This is so funny, Penny (Kaley Cuoco) seducing Sheldon in The Big Bang Theory.

This one is for thespian15 as he has not seen the show.

Birthday Greetings

Birthday greetings  for elenbarathi. May you have a wonderful day.

Angel and Codty Final Kiss

As i am going through the final season of Angel, here is one of the saddest moments when Cordelia, still in a coma after giving birth to the demon Jasmine, wishes Angel good luck with the fight ahead, and finally kisses him. Call me an old romantic, but this touched me.

Gulp!

Penny and Leonard Big Bangs

Thinking of Kaley Cuoco being n the final series of Charmed , here is a fifty minute montage of the best Penny and Leonard moments in The Big Bang Theory, seasons 1 - 4.

ROFL !!