Hot take: The song Walking on Sunshine by Katrina and the Waves is about a woman who has a delusion about someone who wants nothing to do with her. #music
“I’d love to say Walking on Sunshine relates to a significant event in my life, like walking out of my front door, seeing a comet and being inspired. But it’s just a piece of simple fun, an optimistic song, despite us not being outstandingly cheery people. We were a typical young band, insecure and pessimistic. We didn’t have big hair and didn’t look anything like a Motown-influenced group. We didn’t have any credibility or a fanbase in awe of our mystique. We were a second-on-the-bill-at-a-festival-in-Germany pop band. But we had this song.” — Kimberley Rew, guitarist and songwriter
Had a pretty quiet weekend, as I tried to stay off my wicked sore knees. Saturday was particularly awful, but they do seem to be ever so slowly getting better. I stayed in bed, took ibuprofen, kept them both iced down and played #NoMansSky on my ROG Ally. It plays very well on the little Z1. Amazing how they have kept the game relevant and getting better, after all these years. It is getting a little grindy, but I should probably push off my start planet and get exploring.
#Today has already been very busy and will only get busier. I drove my wife to work and took a foster kitty to the vets. Later, I'll meet some ex-coworkers for lunch about an hour away and hopefully pick up my wife on the way home. And then I will need to rest up for the #NHLBruins playoff game tonight. They looked really good on Saturday night. I really hope Coach Montgomery learned his lesson from last year and just sticks with the goalie rotation.
I finished "Where Law Ends: Inside the Mueller Investigation" by Andrew Weissmann and found it so frustrating. He details the timidity that Mueller had pushing the investigation into places it should have gone (like a T**mp subpoena) but he gets grating when he writes about how "surprised" they all were at the lengths the Orange Menace would go to cover his own fat ass, from stonewalling to dangling pardons. Why keep getting surprised by it? #books#reading@bookstodon
@neilhimself@ColleenDoran I note that you are using PledgeBox for fulfillment of the #GoodOmens project. Given that this is your first time using PledgeBox I hope that you are doing your due diligence to make sure that they don't do anything stupid, like giving customers a 30-minute window to download stuff, because -- DANG! -- that would sure be annoying. #WordToTheWise#Comics
@neilhimself@pablolarah the rumour around the internet is that you support Israel in this ongoing conflict. So maybe not that odd thing to say. Anyway, free Palestine 🇵🇸❤️🖤🤍💚🥰☺️
In fact, the Consumer Price Index has always been a political artifact! Read more in Thomas Stapleford's enjoyable and excellently-named history THE COST OF LIVING IN AMERICA.
Help! Is there anyone who can explain to me what the cultural significance of the phrase "Carl seinem Gretchen" might be in Vienna in about 1870? I understand what the words mean, but there’s some cultural reference I’m missing, I think.