Aka Monday 18th
November 2019 - Sunday 24th November 2019
…a very quiet week
this week, I picked up these New Comic Book Day gems:
…of which I’ve read
‘Once & Future’ #4 (where we get to the meat of the story, with lashings of
action, betrayal and reveals) and ‘Moonshine’ #13 (Lou is out of jail and is
getting back into trouble trying to cure his wild side, with lashings of sex,
misdeeds and crime)…
…the 20th Anniversary 12" inch boxset of The Chemical Brothers ‘Surrender’ arrived, you can see it
compared to a normal sized CD!:
and I’d forgotten how great it is. A near-perfect
balance of club bangers and home listening/chilled tunes, the bonus discs of b-sides
and remixes just add lashings of acid and breakbeats and house and the DVD
features a great set from Glastonbury. Plus, it’s all housed in a great boxset,
with a nice booklet, giving a little of the history of the album and some
contemporary thoughts…
…and I watched ‘The Man Who Killed Hitler and Then the Bigfoot’, which I thought would be a fun b-movie
romp, a bit like ‘The Mummy’, but it’s more like ‘Bubba Ho-Tep’, as it focuses
more on the passing of time and reflecting back on our past deeds and how they effected
our lives. 7/10.
…and I did these
week’s G2 Crosswords:
…and Monday’s crossword gets the week off to a near perfect
start as the little grey cells only stumble on one of the 24 clues – ‘old
measures equivalent to about 45 inches in England’, which is one ‘ell’ (which
was first recorded in 1765). The little grey cells have really been firing on
all cylinders for the last few crosswords…or the grids are getting easier!!!,
but will it continue tomorrow…
…and it almost does continue with Tuesday’s crossword, I had
to cheat on a seventh of the clues (three out of 21), which isn’t bad, until
you compare it to recent crosswording. What got me was my lack of bird
knowledge (otherwise I might have gotten ‘Siskin’ from ‘small yellow and black
finch’) and opera knowledge (otherwise I would have gotten ‘tenor’ from
‘Carreras, for example’)…and, when combined some of the answers do make good
band/song/shop/novel/film/album names – Acme Pedicure, Escape Siskin and
Maternal Nude…
…and things are back to normal with Wednesday’s crossword as
I had to cheat on three elevenths (six out of 23), or maybe the little grey
cells are just worn out and tired? Some of those six I I’d forgotten and
couldn’t remember and some I just couldn’t figure out, so I learnt that ‘Fielding’
was the ‘Tom Jones author, d.1754’ and that a ‘projection to the east end of a
church’ is an ‘apse’, hopefully tomorrow’s grid will go better…
…and it does, the little grey cells have bounced back and I
just had to cheat on one of the 21 clues – ‘plausible, but false (8)’, I just
couldn’t get from there to the answer – ‘specious’. But the rest of the grid
mostly just fell into place, and once I had intersecting letters those tricky
ones became easy ones. Roll on tomorrow’s grid…
…and Friday’s grid didn’t go quite as well, but not as bad
as Wednesday’s grid, as I had to cheat on a sixth of the clues (four out of
23). It took a bit f chewing over for a few of the clues, but mostly the little
grey cells had the answers ready to go. And I learnt that ‘Split’ is a
‘Croatian port’, that a ‘yawl’ is a ‘two-masted sailing boat’ and that ‘Attila’
was the ‘most feared barbarian invader of the Roman Empire, d.453’ (although I
really should have gotten him from the intersecting letters!)…
…and Saturday’s crossword ends the week on a pretty good
note, I only had to cheat on an eleventh of the clues (two out of 23). The
little grey cells made short work of the grid and only got stumped on a few of
the clues and only two of those they couldn’t get after some chewing over. So,
I learnt that ‘verdure’ means ‘greenery’ and that the ‘Oder’ is a ‘river that,
with the Neisse, forms the German-Polish border’. Now the little grey cells can
rest before the start of a new week…
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