She having adverted all of us to this Top Ten archive.

Of course, it is - whatever our tastes in music, and without regards to its being, surely, so very American a chart - the soundtrack, will we or nil we, to our lives, if we're at all of an age for it. There's music here that is (again, regardless of mine own preferences) music I pulled to and ( Read more... )

I propose for musicians an Erdős-May Number in the usual form. (Oddly, this gives the members of One Direction an Erdős-May Number of 8: precisely the same as Freddie Mercury's and Emeli Sandé's.)

Has Brian May an Erdős number? If so, what is it?

I seem - in moments of seeking a counter-irritant to my edits of MSP’s forthcoming work (publication on 4 July or so) on George Washington’s correspondence with Selina, Countess of Huntingdon (a task that has alas deprived me of much good company) - to have committed fic, and that in another fandom. It results, on the surface, from research I did ( Read more... )

- having happily turned some of you on to Bellowhead (see previous post), must recommend the brilliant Michael Sands, who - like Mrs Mills fifty years ago - recaptures the music hall and ragtime days; and to my more-or-less acquaintances, the geniuses, or genii, of the Gypsy Fire quartet.

And am not best pleased to do so.

Wednesday shan't be pleasant.

Heigh, ho. In any event, do not be disturbed by my absence, and I shall attempt to make up for all I shall have missed as quickly as I may.

- in hearing a certain similarity in, a, Colonel Bogey's March, b, the Duckworth-Lewis Method song 'Test Match Special', and, c, the theme to 'Only Fools and Horses'?

But if one really were forced to cast for a Son of Snupin role, it'd be Seann Walsh, surely?

( Take two parts Alf Garnett, one part Del Boy.... )

( Portrait of a blinking idiot. )