R's rue

May 24th. It is a special date. My mother's birthday. My son-in-law's birthday. Queen Victoria's birthday in 1819. The day my mother-in-law Winnie died. The day that Hull City first made it into The Premier League and of course it is also Bob Dylan's birthday. The great man is eighty years old today. If you are reading this Bob, I just want to say "Happy Birthday" to you and thanks for being my companion from the early sixties right through to today. Your songs have meant so much to me and I for one still marvel at your genius - your special way with words and ideas, your passion for songs and life itself. What a life you have led - to touch so many millions - people just like me. This is the first Dylan song I learnt to play on my guitar:- A year or two later it always featured  on the set list of the band I belonged to. With Jock's electric guitar we turned that song into something so different. The woman that the narrator met in "As I Went Out...

   I’m not a lover of Tilda Swinton but in Pedro Almodóvar’s short movie  A Human Voice she dominates the screen as a woman dumped by her lover which whom she one sidedly has a series of conversations on the phone.  It’s a powerful performance in a powerful short movie, but I did find myself missing the director’s flourishes of humour and warmth in Spanish , for A Human Voice is his first movie in English . The film left me a bit flat as did the atrocious weather So I’ve come home and lit the fire .  Which is now roaring an optimistic roar from Going Gently https://ift.tt/3oJGXLp

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Back in 2015, Google brought a new facility into their search engine results page (SERP). I am sure that you have noticed it: "People Also Ask" followed by a number of questions that relate to the one you first put into the search box.  The facility is meant to be helpful in our quest for knowledge. Indeed the "People Also Ask" questions  can lead us down interesting avenues. Sometimes you click on the newly generated questions and they lead you in different directions, bringing up yet more questions. It can be a bit like navigating a maze. In spite of all of this, I have sometimes find myself chuckling about some of the random "People Also Ask" questions that are thrown up. At this present point in time bots can be so indiscriminating, lacking the sophistication  of human experience. Unbeknown to them they make blunders all the time. Questions related to "What is hell?":- So God's skin is red and white? Does that make him a Manchester...