Sweet Mental Revenge

Scott came across this amazing Waylon Jennings clip from 1966. The lyrics are acid. And how unflappably cool is he?? Check out how he moves his shoulders at about 9 seconds.

"I hope the friend you've thrown yourself with, he gets drunk and loses his job./ Every road that you travel on is dusty, rocky and hard."



And how about this one--does he not make the most electric eye contact with the camera (1:18)?



Who's Waylon Jennings, you ask? Scott says it is disrespectful and taints his legacy for me to mention this (as it is the least cool thing he did and he probably did it for the money during a career low), but since country music isn't everyone's cup of tea (not sure why) some of you may not be familiar with Waylon Jennings. But you've heard him before:



Scott just walked out of the room. "He's probably turning in his fucking grave."

Saturday Night Zombies

Dispatches from Scott's Blackberry

Received this from Scott this morning:

I board the train and am happy to land a seat. I nice young woman in her late 20s or early 30s seated to my right, reading a novel. "wonder what she's reading" I think.....perhaps Dickens or Hardy. No! Maybe she's a biography person - I bet it's the new biography of Beatrix Potter....I glance at the page......

"I'm going to rip his f'ing eyeballs out and make him suck them like gobstoppers," Cafferty was snarling, flecks of saliva pocked the inside of his windscreen.

Oh well.

Scott Guest Post - Images

Space (Jupiter and Io; molecular clouds; the Sombrero Galaxy)

Scott Guest Post - Andy Goldsworthy**

** This is the first in a series of image-only guest posts

Guest Post. No real purpose

I thought the blog should subtly shift into a holiday focus. But I couldn't think of a subtle way to do it, so as my first guest blog, I leave you only with an image.

Scott