Not Fake News. Urban LegendsIn a grumpy bid for privacy, I went op-shopping today for curtains.
I live within rolling distance of a river which is a regular fishing and swimming spot for some of the landlord’s whanau. It’s summer Down Under, so school is out, which means they visit regularly, which means I sacrifice some privacy.
For the last year or more, in an attempt to make up for past excesses, I got fastidious about diet.
The excesses are a back-story for another time. Enough to say for now that apart from quaffing way too much, I’d been a smoker for years. So in addition to low-level neurosis, I was below-par physically. The ( even ) older version of me was in for Grim Times.
So when a friend loaned me a copy of T Colin Campbell’s The China Study it lit a spark. The back cover quotes The New York Times’ reaction – to the original study – which it says ” … can be considered the Grand Prix of Epidemiology…”.
My txt reaction was briefer.
The above is Iggy Pop, performing for a US talk show audience, recently.
Note the understated suit jacket, and white shirt. Along way from the famous 1970 image at the top of this post – blue jeans, topless, black boots – a signature look he sported right into the 20-teens.
Heard via RNZ National recently. A nice piece of Americana from Back In The Day ( 1971 );
Above is a scene from this week, at the supermarket – note rugby shorts. Below are scenes from the 1970s – note the stubbies.
Some people never learn.
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From my buddy the musical adventurer, who writes,
‘probably my favourite post-punk band”