TEXAS SPARKLE: ZZ TOP, 1970
BREW ME! Wait, what? The amount of care that I shall give about all of this has come and gone. In other words, barley and hops and such always wins over fear of pieces parts.
MEANWHILE, IN SCOTLAND YESTERDAY: The questions heading into yesterday’s vote.
DON’T BE LIKE THAT GUY: Mon Dieu.
DRAMATIC OWL:
Because, of course, this.
NOT GONNA LIE: This is one of those stories that make me feel way less crummy about people. WARNING: This is feline oriented. BONUS! This is feline oriented!
NOT GONNA LIE SOME MORE: This kind of stuff fascinates me. It can also keep me up at night.
SCORE ONE FOR THE UNDERDOG: And it doesn’t get more underdoggity than these guys.
THE TOWN IS FULL OF LIVE ONES:
LIKE SHOOTING FISH IN A BARREL: Right about now I’m wondering how long before I find myself being schooled in this manner. Also (paging Alanis), this.
PUTIN: He’s pretty much just trolling us now.
SOUND AND VISION: Read if you like David Bowie. Also, more details. I’m not sure but this makes me wonder if he’s wrapping things up with this latest collection.
POINTS TO PONDER:
Just so we are all together here, this blogpost entry contains a tweet that I found on tumblr with a title stolen from a once monumentally huge periodical (that is still around in print form btw). And yes, that hyperlink goes to the online version of their site. Natch.
WAIT, WHAT? A what what? How is it I’ve never heard about or seen one of these before now?
LIGHT POLLUTION: This is something I am somewhat obsessive over. Having just come back from a week in the wilderness where the night sky is a never-ending source of amazement, the fact that we could lose that seems difficult to accept.
INCOMING!
Need something else to read?
- Because it is never a bad idea to shake up your fitness routine and rethink your fuel intake.
- This is always worth a reminder.
- In my search for a new wallet, I came across this.
Tim Johnstone is Dappered’s music correspondent as well as our resident gatherer of all things interwebs related. He doesn’t really hate people. Mostly.
I love pawpaws. I went to college at OU in Athens Ohio and there were a ton of restaurants that found a million different ways to use them each fall.
Pawpaws need a better name. How about “dapper fruit”?
I don’t know about that movie (Keanu? Ehhhhh…), but any trailer that starts with a song by the Sonics and features Ian McShane certainly has my attention.
(I’m using Dappered as an outlet to write these thoughts since most of the people I interact with could care less about Scottish independence. Apologies in advance.)
I’m glad Scotland voted to preserve the union. I’m all for self-determination and kicking the Tories in the pants, but I also think that:
A) The Scottish people’s legitimate grievances are with the quality (or lack thereof) of leadership in Westminster, and not necessarily with the Union itself. There are less drastic ways to reform the British parliamentary system to ensure that it is more representative of Scottish interests.
B) There needs to be an actual plan in place for what is going to happen when independence is declared. Optimistic Scottish nationalists can’t just assume that it will become a EU state, that Scottish people living and working in England or vice versa will be able to maintain their homes, jobs, and citizenship, or that the UK will give up all its North Sea oil rigs or continue sharing its currency just because those would supposedly be the nice or fair things that should happen. The Scottish people have a right to know, with some detail and certainty, how independence will play out on the ground before they are asked to approve it.
And C) It’s absurd that, by a mere simple majority vote, huge numbers of Scots who are perfectly happy to remain British citizens could be stripped of their parent country and British citizenship without their consent and against their objections. There should be a supermajority requirement, or at least an absolute majority (a simple majority of total eligible voters) required to make a change that will so radically affect all a nation’s citizens, whether they like it or not.
A) I’d say it’s a bit more than a quality issue. They (still) have a a very strong case that as things stand, it’s a systemic problem for them.
B) It would have been nice. But I’m reminded of the Mike Tyson quote–about everyone having a plan till you get punched in the face. If YES had won, the fight would have been on in a way that’s not possible to predict.
C) The YES camp was decades in the making. Was it scary, yes. Would everyone have been happy? No. But democracy is about the risk in the peoples hands–and like stateside, prior to the vote, the political class was calcified into the status quo. In any negotiation, you have to be willing to stick your neck out to make a real breakthrough. A lot of good is going to come from the power shifting out of Westminster.
And as a New Englander, mostly of English and Scottish stock, it was a bit like watching my grandparents talk about divorcing. But I am damn proud of the example they set for the world. This is how it’s done. Bravo.
oh… THOSE kinds of amazon warriors.
I would gently revise the Point to Ponder to say “it’s never your successful friends posting platitudes” but broadly, dead on.
“That dog was a final gift from my dying wife.”
You have successfully kept me occupied clicking on links for hours now, I kept coming back to this page to click the rest but I got myself so sidetracked. Have to thank you for the utter randomness that broke up an otherwise ordinary Monday.