"Like Depression-era glassware, you should be kept out of reach of children. Not just because of your general frailty, but also because your body is full of arsenic, uranium, and other toxic chemicals you were regularly exposed to before the existence of the EPA."

https://www.mcsweeneys.net/articles/your-body-is-now-considered-vintage

"At the end of the day it's still a plastic gorilla, regardless."

https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/articles/cqj1rnqj2pzo

#Yorkshire

Al Wood has uploaded an archive of the uke tabs from his Uke Hunt website (which "collapsed like a Frenchman in the penalty box," as he put it, and is currently being rebuilt) to the Internet Archive. A terrific resource if you're looking for song arrangements:

https://archive.org/details/uptown-funk_202606

#Ukulele #Music #InternetArchive #UkeHunt

Current Status: Demarcated Piglet.

I posted a #Ukulele songsheet for this number a few months ago. Nice to see it pop up on my YouTube subs this morning.

Oldtimemusiclover: "Hello Montreal by Sleepy Halls Melody Boys 1928 (Digitized) HOT Canadian Jazz with Plectrum Banjo!"

https://youtu.be/9JEZ5I9Ma2o https://social.vivaldi.net/@BigJackBrass/115826566993802643

BBC Archive: "1981 Swindon with XTC's Andy Partridge"

https://youtu.be/fIiT41DEZAs

'Noted Swindonian and XTC frontman Andy Partridge takes us on a whistle-stop tour of his home town. He visits Brunel's Railway Village, the Western Region Mechanics Institute, and the Museum of the Great Western Railway - where he stops to admire the famous steam locomotive, City of Truro. Next up, he visits the divisive Brunel Shopping Centre (It's far too tinny, it won't last five minutes) and the Avery Scale Shop - possibly the most obscure shop in Swindon. Finally, he pops in to the Oasis Family Leisure Centre, locally known as "the Pleasuredome."'

#BBC #XTC #SwindonsFinest #1980s