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AAAAAAAAAAAAAAUUUUUUUUUUGGGGHHHHHH

ADHD comes with its pluses and minuses. Having a song stuck in one’s head on repeat can be enjoyable (for a while, at least) or it can be a slow, grinding hellscape. This week is one of those latter times. I do not know how these two cocaine-dusted sex pests got stuck in my head, but here we are. This damned song floated across every AOR radio station in the mid-70’s that covered the yacht-rock playlist, which meant I heard it constantly as a child. And now it is trapped in my skull, imploring some poor woman to take a walk on a beach in a cloud of Hai Karate and Marlboro Red smoke.

Look at those two. Look at them. Would you let them drive away in their Monte Carlo with your daughter?

Here’s a cool site to check out over coffee on a Sunday: Historic Aerials is a Google Maps-style interface where you can look up your address and walk back in time as far as they’ve got aerial photos of it. They also have topographical maps which typically go back much further. For our house, the earliest photo is from 1957 but the topo maps go all the way back to 1894.

One of my favorite songs of all time. XTC wasn’t playing much live after releasing The Big Express, two albums before this one, but this is a rare live acoustic version of King for A Day, written and sung by Colin Moulding. Oranges and Lemons is one of the GOAT albums of the 1980’s, right behind Skylarking.

Bookmarked: Here’s an excellent presentation on how to buy, set up and use a burner phone (especially when traveling into or out of the U.S. during this administration). This goes all the way down to less-obvious stuff like: buy the phone in cash and wear a mask; activate it on a public wi-fi network, and don’t do anything to attach your personal profile to the phone.

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