I got “Who’s Next” for Christmas fifty — 50! — years ago.
More recently, Joe Pera had the same reaction to the album’s first song that I did, half a century ago.
And yes, there was a Sally who took my hand as we listened to the record together. Sally had brilliant red hair when I knew her, like Jenna Thiam a couple of posts ago.
England’s evacuation of Dunkirk happened 18 months before Japan’s attack on Pearl Harbor, 80 years ago. The Day of Infamy made it official, that there was a second World War. BBC Radio has a collection of World War II audio essays. This is the Dunkirk installment.
Here is the home page for the complete series.
https://www.bbc.co.uk/programmes/p02prmgr
This ad has been popping up on Web pages. Is the girl with the incredible red hair a character in the game?
Somebody should tell actress Jenna Thiam. The incredible red hair belongs to her.
Note: This blog post title isn’t intended to be sexist. Jenna isn’t French, she’s French-speaking Belgian, and French Wench is the name of a cocktail.
Lessee, my last post was way back on October 15. Here’s Tom Hanks playing DJ for Halloween.
And here Tom’s Thanksgiving Edition.
Want to listen on headphones? For ten bucks you can’t go wrong with these. No Bluetooth, no noise cancelling, just excellent sound. I’m listening with them right now. (No, I don’t make any money from Amazon!)
What a freaking nightmare today. Of my own making, I admit. I should have just walked away, but noooooooooooo…
After numerous failed attempts, I decided to take a once-and-for-all stab at fixing this site. Whether or not it’s completely working again, at least I did not die this day, and WordPress is finally running the current version. The Google Search Console is no longer complaining about the domain, which gives me a reason to not discontinue the blog.
My annual subscription for web hosting will come due after the start of the year, and the fact is I’m not sure I want to continue this weblog. It’s been fifteen years since I started using WordPress, and I’m feeling ready to stop using it. Technical problems, some of which remain unresolved, no longer feel like challenges. They’ve become merely annoying. Google has once again stopped indexing the site. This problem first appeared after Bluehost temporarily hosted my domain within another domain. Did they do it again? It’s not worth the bother checking.
All of the big events associated with this site happened within its first few years, and since then it’s just been me sharing and spouting. How many people are still looking at “Prattling Before the Pratfall” anyway? Perhaps as few as half a dozen, whose interest I sincerely appreciate. The cost ($300+/year) isn’t an issue, but I don’t like paying for aggravation. It would be a lot cheaper to cut back to having just the domain and the e-mail addresses in it.
