Pretty rare and fine audio of Kurt Vonnegut reading from Slaughterhouse-Five.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=CaUhWFQ49Fw&list=PLQ35yrfe9i8pvDBv-_9DhV7j0eVtV-aUm&feature=share
Makes for excellent listening. It’s many years since I first read Vonnegut’s satirical (and disturbing) take on the allied bombing of Dresden (an event he was eye witness to). A truly awful and questionable event, though almost certainly not worse, as is often claimed, than the atomic explosions which were to follow.
Possibly the strangest thing you will hear played on two cellos today (skip to about a minute in for the start of the good stuff)
And (just for comparison, of course 😉 ) here’s AC/DC doing what they do
http://youtu.be/XYFdldfYEJk
Seen when coming back from the shop round the corner; a glorious sight to turn the corner to.
Dear Cadbury please put Diary Milk back to its proper shape 🙁 That is all.
[Annoyed]
Am I the only one thinks “Reality Creation 4K hyperdrive” sounds more like something from Hitchhicker’s Guide to the Galaxy than a real thing?
Surprised more hasn’t been made of the Google Maps Gallery. Lots of nice stuff there, including a load of historic maps.
Part of the Cheapside Hoard enlarged on the side of the museum
brought a trip out into London with Heather, partly because we decided we don’t get to enough in London, partly for something to do, and partly to celebrate a year together. Our destination of choice was the Museum of London, which Heather hadn’t been to since childhood, though I’d been in what feels like a different life.
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