Crikey! This almost put me to sleep! Another two minutes, and I’d’ve been face-down on the keyboard. Sweet, serene music in the background, serene little fuzzy kittens–stop it! I think it’s time I took a nap.
Category: Video
Memory Lane: ‘Flash Gordon’
Remember this? The 1954-55 Flash Gordon TV series. I don’t remember it well: mostly I have this image of Flash being menaced by something that looked like a heap of bathroom rugs (and might have been, at that). I used to read the Flash Gordon adventures in the Sunday newspaper, in the color comics section. The TV show couldn’t quite live up to that.
Nevertheless, it had its moments–as in this little clip above, in which the narrator makes reference to “the rings of Jupiter.” Huh? I thought it was Saturn with the rings–didn’t you?
There’s only so much you can learn from pop culture!
‘I Want to Be a Worker for the Lord’
Here’s one from 1880–I Want to Be a Worker for the Lord, sung by Lyle and Nathan, and family and friends, in Denton County, Texas. May it be a blessing at the start of the day, for all of us.
Cats and Toasters
What is it with these people, letting their cats up on the counter with the toaster and the microwave, etc.? Like, even when there’s food preparation going on up there! Really, nothing bipeds do makes any sense.
Comfort: ‘What a Friend We Have in Jesus’
I need comfort today, and this is maybe the most comforting hymn I know: What a Friend We Have in Jesus, here performed by the kids at Fountainview Academy. I love to whistle this hymn when I walk alone.
You’re Not the Only One Who’s Scared of Bugs
We’re used to cats and dogs boldly hunting insects. Our cat Buster used to gobble up these huge nursery web spiders that wandered in from outside: most sickening sight.
But the dogs and cats in this video are made of softer stuff. Then again, really big bugs are kind of scary, aren’t they?
By Request, ‘Come Ye Disconsolate’
Susan asked for this hymn, Come Ye Disconsolate. I couldn’t find exactly the version she wanted, and I don’t know who’s performing this one–but at least we’ve got the lyrics. And the message!
More Naughty Cats
Oh, what we humans–and dogs, and inanimate objects, too–suffer at the hands of cats! Actually, it’s probably a good thing they don’t have hands. Can you imagine cats with opposable thumbs? They’d be after our car keys!
French Honcho Likens Self to Roman God
Emmanuel Macron is president of France because the French nooze media never, ever wrote or mentioned his name without attaching the comfortable label “centrist” to it.
But now he’s telling the noozies that his thought processes–is that what those are?–are “too complex” for them to understand. And, having summoned legislators to attend him at the palace of Louis XIV in Versailles, Macron is said to have expressed his intention to govern as “a remote, dignified figure, like the Roman god of gods, who weighs his rare pronouncements carefully” (http://www.breitbart.com/london/2017/07/04/macron-announces-govern-like-jupiter-roman-king-gods/).
Or, as Caligula used to say, “For ‘Jove’ read ‘me’!”
Is Macron trying to out-Obama Obama? I dunno, which is better–making the sea levels go down, or turning into a god? Stay turned for additional rare pronouncements.
The Best: ‘Jesu, Joy of Man’s Desiring’
I just can’t think of a more beautiful hymn than this: Jesu, Joy of Man’s Desiring, by Johann Sebastian Bach. Here the orchestra is conducted by Leopold Stokowki, vintage 1992.