- My sister sending me Motley Crue’s “Kickstart My Heart” before taking our mother for a heart procedure. Firstly I have a brother and sister who can appreciate the humour of this, and secondly this is such a ripping song it made the whole thing fist pumping on my side. Degrees of separation: Knew a dude who knew Tommy Lee who apparently is one of the most gentle, nice and genuinely kind people he ever met he said.
- The Asian red panda - I don’t think I would have ever thought it, but seriously, regular pandas are completely bullshit compared got the red pandas in just about everything.
- Joanna Lumley's Spice Trail Adventure - The only way to describe this entirely non-ironically is delicious. The utter delight with which Joanna describes the journey of spices, ideas and people in that husky molasses of a voice draws you in to a deep place of intellectual titillation.
- ACDC “Gimme a Bullet” - There aren’t many places of things I can conquer, but this is the soundtrack to this if and when. The plodding and determination will bring out your inner Bon Scott in three minutes and make you think that your jeans aren’t that tight at all for this shit.
- ACDC “Riff Raff” - I’m fully aware of potentially alienating the handful of readers out there to this, but lest you not heed this warning to listen to this anthem break it down so hard during the chorus harkening to a more innocent, non-performative, hand-clapping time when you didn’t have to worry about looking at your ageing face on a Saturday night and wonder since when you have veins on your temples.
- Cloudspotting Do it. Just do it already. Draw the elephant, balloon, testicle, ape smoking a cigarette, portrait of ancient Babylonian king Nebuchadnezzar II, etc., etc., etc. Dumb fun now for you and yours.
- Geocentrism as a rational response to localist motion observation making sense for a brief, few minutes
- Amon Amarth “Saxons and Vikings” - In a glorious logical thematic conclusion, Norse metal lords Amon Amarth recreate the conquest of the Danelaw in early medieval Britain through ripping viking power metal, meeting none other than one of the original New Wave of British Heavy Metal (NWOBHM) paragons Saxon on the battlefield musically and metaphorically.
- @baroqueblockbuster just goes balls and all in on the Baroque, bringing the age of Counter-Reformationist excess to the ultimate human tool of excess (social media) with such self aplomb I can excuse his forrays into Rococo without acknowledging it.
- Chess template for IAwriter - Rather than do something useful for everyone like plugins, math functions or Mermaid diagrams, they chose chess notation which five people will use. So good on so many levels. I hate the amount of hours spent on this, yet respect the sticking to the whole “opinionated software” guns thing so much.
