SPORTS eg chess/soccer: into rewilding but anti-AI bubble: the podcast @NewGermanBooks: Harm Reduction: Human Rights. Have Parkinsons & mobility probs. Married
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#chess
2018 local S.E. London prodigy #Shreyas #Royal (2009- ) & his family were threatened with #deportation
A lot of chessers incl. myself took part in a #campaign to ensure a happier outcome.
He in now a GM & 2026 #British #Champion
Plays for #England en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Shreya…
#Chess
Seldom do UK clubs do well in
#European #Chess #Club event
But after 6 rds @Cheddleton are 4th =
Led by R Pert on 6/6 seeking 3rd & final #GM #norm
s1.chess-results.com/tnr1475…
FF @GGMchess 's #commentary of Rd 7 (now #live)
youtube.com/watch?v=LZ95Ibom…
#Rewilding
#Asian #hornets impact #honey #bees
Former wait at hive
& grab a worker bee
Those in hives #dare #not #leave
In #Asia, bees have an #answer
ie #swarm & #surround hornet
which dies from #heat
Euro. bees never #evolved that #defence
#CrimeFiction
Ok ok I hear yr #pushback re #Colin #Dexter
(#Inspector #Morse)
"How dare u make cheap #ad #hominem jibes at CD
He was a much finer mind than u'll ever be
& he can't reply now"
#AgathaChristie used to b my best #sleeping #pill
Now its #CD
Self-conditioning
#CrimeFiction
#Product #placement is common in films
But did #Nicholas #Dexter get paid by eg @GlenfiddichSMW / #Dunhill fags?
Why mention Dunhill?
I like his bks but flawed by eg #wistful boyish idea
all #women v attracted to #Morse?
I hear "I'm #available' subtext f/ Mr D!
#classical #MUSIC
Maurice #Ravel, 1875-1937, 1 of my faves
s/ late 1985
I'd just moved to #Cologne
my 1st job was translating
8pp Tx of proposed film re MR
D/k if was made
it wowed me
24/10 @BBCRadio3 reviewed many takes of MR's 'Miroirs'
#Enchanting
bbc.co.uk/sounds/play/live/b…
#Chess
Seldom do UK clubs do well in
#European #Chess #Club event
But after 6 rds @Cheddleton are 4th =
Led by R Pert on 6/6 seeking 3rd & final #GM #norm
s1.chess-results.com/tnr1475…
FF @GGMchess 's #commentary of Rd 7 (now #live)
youtube.com/watch?v=LZ95Ibom…
#Chess
I'm glad @GGMchess (Simon Williams)
is commentating the ETCC
(European Team Championships) in #Montenegro;
has a unique style combining informal-droll with accurate anlysis
youtube.com/watch?v=Pvjp-91R…
#Sports #financetips
@bizzofsport = sharpest re #BS in eg #golf
@LivTours
A) its golfers must #transfer all #marketing rights to LIV
B) if a LIV event is on, 0 of its signed-up ppl can play in #other# events
BUT #LIV say "Player freedom = its basis!
youtube.com/watch?v=xqyHtbm3…
Charlie Stebbings, host of @bizofsport, himself #entrepreneur, errs re place of #sportS
Says (1:24:5) in linked TW below
'The most #powerful #export of the UK is the (#EPL)'
No! Eg 1) cars 3) medcl &pharma
CS said too 'Everyone loves #fantasy football'
It bores me stiff
#CrimeFiction
#Product #placement is common in films
But did #Nicholas #Dexter get paid by eg @GlenfiddichSMW / #Dunhill fags?
Why mention Dunhill?
I like his bks but flawed by eg #wistful boyish idea
all #women v attracted to #Morse?
I hear "I'm #available' subtext f/ Mr D!
In 'Last seen wearing' #Morse is #racist. Dies of #alcoholism. #Bullying
intellectual snob, pedantic
Least likeable “hero” in CF
2000: Dexter (s pic) stated he shared #Morse's views on politics
A) vs B) doesnt apply to languages eg Latin that arent spoken
en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Colin_…
#CrimeFiction
Jacques Berndorf #AntiNazi
b. 1936! in solid #Ruhr
IWrote 34 other bks, much non-fic
& 23 #CF bks set in #Eifel
Most exposed how bigtime but iffy
#capitalist #scams i n #FRG (may) work
eg 'Eifel Wasser', 2001
Lived there 'die schoensten Arsch der Welt' (JB)
#CrimeFiction
but I do enjoy #Colin #Dexter
& his tobacco fetish
Like Jacques Berndorf (1936-2022)
vg journo
then 23 regional CF
hero Siggy Baumeister
#Defiantly 90% JB's "ppl" smoke
& brands of SB's #pipes named!
Tho huge #fall in % Germans smoking
de.wikipedia.org/wiki/Jacque…
#CrimeFiction
Jacques Berndorf #AntiNazi
b. 1936! in solid #Ruhr
IWrote 34 other bks, much non-fic
& 23 #CF bks set in #Eifel
Most exposed how bigtime but iffy
#capitalist #scams i n #FRG (may) work
eg 'Eifel Wasser', 2001
Lived there 'die schoensten Arsch der Welt' (JB)
#CrimeFiction
but I do enjoy #Colin #Dexter
& his tobacco fetish
Like Jacques Berndorf (1936-2022)
vg journo
then 23 regional CF
hero Siggy Baumeister
#Defiantly 90% JB's "ppl" smoke
& brands of SB's #pipes named!
Tho huge #fall in % Germans smoking
de.wikipedia.org/wiki/Jacque…
#CrimeFiction
but I do enjoy #Colin #Dexter
& his tobacco fetish
Like Jacques Berndorf (1936-2022)
vg journo
then 23 regional CF
hero Siggy Baumeister
#Defiantly 90% JB's "ppl" smoke
& brands of SB's #pipes named!
Tho huge #fall in % Germans smoking
de.wikipedia.org/wiki/Jacque…
In 'Last seen wearing' #Morse is #racist. Dies of #alcoholism. #Bullying
intellectual snob, pedantic
Least likeable “hero” in CF
2000: Dexter (s pic) stated he shared #Morse's views on politics
A) vs B) doesnt apply to languages eg Latin that arent spoken
en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Colin_…
More by #Kanno #Sugako
#anarcha-#feminist
1st F in
modern #Japan #executed
THREAD
now my life is ending
the thread of fate that I wind on my slender
fingers is long
or short
#SMILING
thinking of my last day soon coming
and thinking
of life without end
my being is smiling
CURSE
for 200 days
through my iron window
comes
and goes
the light and dark
that I try to curse
INFINITE
around my small being infinite time and
infinite sky
why then this struggle?
#Kanno #Sugako aka Kanno Suga, #anarcha-#feminist journalist
1st woman in modern Japan executed as political prisoner
en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Kanno_…
In 'Last seen wearing' #Morse is #racist. Dies of #alcoholism. #Bullying
intellectual snob, pedantic
Least likeable “hero” in CF
2000: Dexter (s pic) stated he shared #Morse's views on politics
A) vs B) doesnt apply to languages eg Latin that arent spoken
en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Colin_…
#Crimefiction (#CF)
A) #Prescriptive vs B) #descriptive
A is about actually used language
eg ppl say '#WHO did u tell'
B tells ppl/ what teachers/would like it to be
ie #grammarians who want ppl to say, '#WHOM did u tell'
Is #Morse what author #Dexter wanted cops to b l (s A)
#Crimefiction (#CF)
A) #Prescriptive vs B) #descriptive
A is about actually used language
eg ppl say '#WHO did u tell'
B tells ppl/ what teachers/would like it to be
ie #grammarians who want ppl to say, '#WHOM did u tell'
Is #Morse what author #Dexter wanted cops to b l (s A)
#CrimeFiction
Based on #ColinDexter series, protagonist #Inspector #Morse, quirky #highbrow cop in #Oxford; well made by @ITVX in 33 shows 1987-2000
1 of best is 'The Settling of the Sun' (1988); re coping w/ #WW2 #brutalities 40+ yrs on
@itvdrama1
youtube.com/watch?v=CU_iDL-a…
Attacking film / TV #SETS when theyr represent "bad" ideology
as in Ch. 11-13 of 'Under the Net' (1954) by #Iris #Murdoch
1972 Only time I saw it actually happen
#Roy #Battersby & producer #Tony #Garnett being #frank in packed BBC studio
#BBC #blacklisted RB; TG emigrated
#CrimeFiction
Big creatives worked on @ITVDrama's Inspector Morse series eg
Jack Gold
en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Jack_G…
Danny Boyle ('Trainspotting')
They toed 3 murders per show format
Only Roy Battersby had #civil #courage to break that hackneyed format
& employed black actors (1991!)
#CrimeFiction
Big creatives worked on @ITVDrama's Inspector Morse series eg
Jack Gold
en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Jack_G…
Danny Boyle ('Trainspotting')
They toed 3 murders per show format
Only Roy Battersby had #civil #courage to break that hackneyed format
& employed black actors (1991!)
#CrimeFiction
IMO #CF on @ITVDrama has too many #murders
Average 3 / #CF show
But late great #Roy #Battersby (1936-2024) broke cliched moulds
his #Inspector #Morse ie 'Fat chance' 1991
= the #best
youtube.com/watch?v=C75LnS0A…
I guessed #BBC #blacklistd RB
en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Roy_Ba…
15/10 Rose injured her jaw but didn't know how bad
16.10 jaw painful
We phoned @NHS_111 .
Outcome: she could go to A&E at Lewisham OR #equidistant Kings A&E
#Crucially #NHS 111 staff didnt know Kings have 24/7 #Acute #Dental #Unit
Program should say
kch.nhs.uk/services/services…
I prefer German @Wikipedia
re #Antonioni's 'Blow-up' (1965)
eg 500 words on Argentinian Julio #Cortozar's
1959 short story
'Las babas del diablo' (The #Devil's droolings)
on which film's plot is #closely #based
English #Wiki only mentions title once
& its #untranslated!
Antonioni's gt #cinema 'Blow-up' (1965)
his only box-office hit
Won eg Grand Prix at @Cannes & US Critics (!) award
IMO German @Wikipedia gets close to how it works
I was around in 1965-66
& it captures #insouciant #breakout #atmo
b4 #MSM hyped '#swinging #London'
Antonioni's gem 'Blow-up' (in YT!)
Critics miss key pt
#arguably
it shows Thomas #growing ie #rejects #city
In shop, he wants '#Landscapes'
In key bistro chat, tells Ron
'I've gone off #London this wk'
After intense #park atmo
Climax: sees #NATURE'll
let him master reality
Antonioni's gt #cinema 'Blow-up' (1965)
his only box-office hit
Won eg Grand Prix at @Cannes & US Critics (!) award
IMO German @Wikipedia gets close to how it works
I was around in 1965-66
& it captures #insouciant #breakout #atmo
b4 #MSM hyped '#swinging #London'
