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Mancunian Wannabe

05 Thursday Sep 2019

Posted by David in Cricket, Uncategorized, YouTube-Videos

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#Manchester

As I write this homage, Australia is thrashing England in the fourth Ashes Test played at Old Trafford in Manchester.

Way back when Manchester United became a highly recognizable football team, I was more or less indifferent to Manchester, the city they represented. Then, thanks to the gift of YouTube, creators, like Martin of Martin Zero, are sharing their love of this remarkable city.

Manchester is a city of two rivers, the Medlock and the Irwell. There are canals dating back two hundred years. The factories that made Manchester lie idle, if not demolished out right. But the quarried stone remains, her story lives on in these stones and architecture.

I decided I would declare myself a spiritual Mancunian. I found this tee-shirt on Amazon. Now that I have a tee-shirt, there is nothing left for me to do, but renew my passport, apply for a visa, and buy a plane ticket.

Welcome To The World Of Marina Morlok

03 Friday May 2019

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Marina Morlok is a Russian woman in her early thirties who can talk a “blue streak” in Russian. That is no surprise. She is Russian after all. She just opens up her life to the entire Internet, and, as long as her viewers are as fluent in Russian as she is, they can learn about what she eats, what she wears, her makeup, her hobbies and artistic endeavours. We all get to watch her cats, her enigmatic hairless cats, jump about the apartment, and enter and exit the camera frame.

She is now my friend, not really. I merely lurk around the periphery of her life, partitioned by language.

You, Marina, and I are the new peasants in this Mega Domain, hopeful that Soros, Buffett, the Russian Oligarchs, and who knows who else won’t be able to acquire everything, but leave us enough to live on. We’ve been lucky so far.

I fear, sometimes, that there are virtual Courts, the modern version of Versailles, Vienna, Constantinople. They are based on news feeds, the covers of supermarket tabloids, business journals and broadcasts. The news reporters are the news makers. Here are the Murdoch children, There is a television journalist married to a powerful central banker. Here the rich play their games, plot their intrigues, seduce their next lovers. Maybe that next lover that a would-be tyrant takes will be the next Evita for him or her. And our drab lives will find colour in their travel, travails, sport, and dalliances. And somebody will write a musical intended for even more comparing and longing and admiration and envy

If we are smart, we will let Marina Morlok entertain us, rather than the Kardashians or Kennedys. Or whoever else can snag a reporter’s attention and pay a public relations firm enough money.

Now Marina is eating tomatoes, cucumbers, yogurt, and something else. She chatters on. And we love her. She opens the yogurt cup, licks the yogurt off the top, as we all do when we think no one is looking. Would Hillary or Bill, Melania or Donald, pig out like that? Reason enough there not to trust them.

We watch Marina’s cat drink water out of her cup on the table. On the stove it looks like Marina is heating up pierogies in a pot of water, or whatever the Russian equivalent of Polish pierogies may be.

This is my world today. Marina’s groceries have more meaning for me than the pathetic blathering of the inept plotters of the Democratic Congressional Leadership. They are Twentyfirst Century’s most spectacular failures at court intrigue to date. They wouldn’t have lasted a week in Byzantium.

Cold Shoulder

14 Sunday Apr 2019

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#aches&pains #Blackpool

Here I am, in the comfy chair. I just watched my Ukrainian guys with the metal detectors. They’ve branched out into trespassing in abandoned factories, which appears to be a pointlessly dangerous activity.

That video concluded I am now watching Nuggetnoggin “mudlarking” in the tidal flats of the Thames at London. Now Nuggetnoggin is magnet fishing with my #1 Youtube Girl crush, Nicola White, of Tideline Art.

Earlier this morning, I watched videos of these open trams going about Blackpool, England. The town looks totally whimsical and charming, unlike any seaside town in The States. We seem to be obsessed with bigger and better, with this relentless urge to be entertained, i.e. stimulated and titillated. The need to be at the seaside has been superseded by this need for entertainment, hence Las Vegas, or Disney World.

I titled this “Cold Shoulder” because I have a cold pack on my shoulder, I can’t figure this shoulder pain out. And I seem to be ratcheting up the drama and significance of every odd ache, pain, and discomfort that I experience.

I’m not going to Mass, because I’m hurting. Even with the cold pack on and after taking two Naproxen capsules, I’m still hurting. I’m hoping a swim will help.

I also read Julie’s posts at Master’s Pleasing Bitch. She is quite sexually unihibited, expresses herself well, and doesn’t let cancer rob her of the joy of living,

This has been my morning so far. Oh, I did have a lovely orange bought in Florida last week and a cup of coffee. I’m currently in love with world, Some fattening pastry would be nice. And a go at the old “slap and tickle”.

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