Funny Sights In Tallinn No. 768

..actually this one wasn't that funny..

Asshole in 10 year old BMW is gunning for the already well-amber traffic lights, in wet conditions (the snow was temporarily melting at the time). Asshole realizes he's not gonna make it in time, screams off the road into a kind of layby/carpark thing (this is at the junction of Telliskivi and Paldiski for Tallinlased's sake) still at a ridiculous pace, then turns off into the gap which is actually for pedestrians to cross, and blantantly rejoins the road there whilst I'm trying to cross...

Another Regression To Childhood..

...I loved seeing this interview on the BBC's 'sounds of the sixties', ooh, quite a few years ago now when the sixties were less of a faded memoery, and I still do. It features a short excerpt from Pink Floyd, but when they were 'THE Pink Floyd', replete with the late Syd Barrett doing the 'boom boom boom chii chiii' song, long before they ascended to the pantheon of patron sainthood of patronizing, followed by an interview with the even-later-than-Syd Hans Keller, music critic and all rounder (he intriguingly enough was a big football fan, what I wouldn't give to see a clip of him in full flow eulogizing over Jimmy Greaves or whoever; actually I wouldn't give anything but still would like to see it).

Hans interviews Syd together with a very young Roger Waters, in a manner which Victor Lewis-Smith disparaged as patronizing (ironically, see above) but I don't agree; I think that Keller had a sneaky regard for them in spite of it all, and the interview was largely good natured and cooperative on both sides, this was still a few years before punk of course, and Roger and Syd come across as comparatively articulate for the era.

Funny Moments in Tallinn No. 128

...somewhere in Tallinn...

...silver BMW Z4 pulls up and two 'blonde' girls get out dressed somewhat immaculately (residents of Tallinn will know what I'm talking about)...and walk straight into the second hand shop...

Thought For The Day No. 49 - With The Rabbi Anders Weiss

..psychologist, spiritual guru and arbiter of good taste..

Kyle: ..we've all learned that people look for meaning in books, and sometimes, even if it isn't there, they'll try and invent their own meaning.
Stan: Yeah..that's why we all need to avoid books and stick to television.

South Park Se14Ep2 The Tale of Scrotie McBoogerballs

Joke To Start Off The New Year..

..one Israeli Jew to another:

"I only ever read the arab press, not the jewish press".
"why the hell do you do that?"
"because the jewish press is always full of doom and gloom, whereas according to the arab press, we are all really smart, wealthy, and control the whole world like a puppet on a string, so I'd rather read about that!!!"

An oldie but goldie..