P1: How are you?
P2: You are a sympathetic listener with ample empathy for others. The recent cold weather has been making my joints play up. What can you recommend?

Flo’s Motor

A couple on an Alaskan weekend getaway come to mine.

“I Go To Rio” - Peter Allen
“Smalltown Boy” - Bronski Beat

Two cooking processes performed simultaneously.
- Fry corn in oil
- Cook sugar to form caramel

Candied

In many countries we're seeing voters that have never known anything other than stability and a certain level of competence voting for anti- system candidates because they have convinced themselves of two things: things right now are awful; change will only be for the better.

This is also why vaccine-denial is so prevalent. People don’t have a memory of what mass death from smallpox looked like, or post-poli disability.

A couple of years ago, I started binge-watching SNL from the beginning. I flamed out after season 5.

Those first seasons were largely pure gold, and worth the visit even if just for the music.

Generalisimo Fernando Franco, still not dead.

The first few seasons hold up well.
Paul Simon in a turkey suit is pure Python. And John Belushi was a genius… like Cleese with a fistful of cocaine.

Usually, the 10x engineer isn’t even typing.

Then only laws you have are those that are enforced.

Fuel = People

The cosmos cannot be blamed for the choices humans have made.

As nuclear flashes cast shadows on the cave wall.

Surely there are both branding and merchandising opportunities there. ;)