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After the disappointment of the last couple of episodes of Star Trek : Discovery, it was a pleasure to welcome back The Mandalorian today. No pretence, no artifice, just a simple (not to say cliched) story, well told with no faffing about.
Talking of disappointments, I read this blog post by Chris Grey on Brexit earlier. It’s a litany of woe, and the conclusion, talking about the failure of the government even to consider an extension in the middle of a pandemic, is inescapable:
In any other context, political or personal, it would be so blindingly obvious as to not need saying. That it is near to unsayable and certainly won’t happen is down solely to the warthog stubbornness of a small group of fanatical Brexiters still fighting the battle to leave that they have already won, and totally indifferent to its costs.
So we blunder on, prisoners of a series of past decisions that we do not have the wit or the will to revisit, and of a small but powerful group of ideologues we are either too cowardly or too weak to face down.
It is worse than folly. It is insanity.
Not much more to add today, really. I listened to some music, perpetrated a little fiction, completed the New Scientist cryptic crossword, and retrieved my Martin guitars from the maintenance man. Tomorrow being the last day of October, I need to complete the last couple of October 1970 music posts. One is Elton John’s Tumbleweed Connection, and the other is uncertain as yet. I’m looking at November 1970 with some trepidation: there was a lot of of music released ahead of the Christmas market, and a lot of it was pretty good.
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Music: since it’s Halloween, here’s The Monster Mash.
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