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Such as it was, anyway. This was the late-August bank holiday in Belfast. As expected.

In no particular order:

• Mig’s Metamorphosism was one of the first blogs I started reading regularly. It’s because he can write. For a taste, treat yourself to his travelogue of an Apline hike and follow it up with his experiences of nymphomania (safe for work, I assure you). I get the feeling the two posts are related.
• Les Paul died the other week.
• An interesting list of the 100 greatest sci-fi movies.
• If you know computers, or programmers, you might enjoy Stack Overflow’s best programmer jokes.
• KickStarter is an interesting micro-funding idea, especially if it ever reaches these shores.
• I thought about writing about the current debate over the freeing of the man convicted of the Lockerbie bombing. But it turns out that William Crawley said most of what I wanted to say, and an Independent editorial said most of the rest. I find I’m with @jearle.

(It’s not terribly relevant to the discussion, but I find it interesting that I typed “the man convicted of the Lockerbie bombing” rather than “the Lockerbie bomber”. Analyse away.)

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It’s another eye.

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Now it’s 12:34:56 on 07/08/09.

Simple pleasures…

Just now, on 07/08/09, it’s 10:11:12.

That is all.

If you try and pick a standout track from the Bill Mallonee/Vigilantes of Love canon, you’re spoiled for choice. Country-ish rock with a conscience and a heart of protest, there’s a lot of powerful song. “Resplendent” is probably my favourite of the lot. I won’t bother trying to offer commentary; have a listen and I’ll let the song do its own talking.

Bill Mallonee, though. There’s a man who can write. He can perform, too. My introduction to him, and VoL, was at an acoustic gig in a church hall in Edinburgh. It was smallish room, with plastic stacking bucket chairs around folding tables, cabaret style. The venue tended to attract a slightly older than average gig-going crowd, and they seemed to know him well. I’ll say this: he tore the place up.

Ages ago, Jonny linked this article on where Bill Mallonee has ended up. There’s something slightly sad, and humbling, about it.

“Resplendent” [YouTube]

“Resplendent” [Spotify]

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