Today’s post is not fit for consumption, it is half-baked with a soggy bottom, and is missing a vital ingredient, so I will let it languish in my drafts file until I have the nutrients to bring it to life.
BUT…. I am on post no.9!!!! Post 9!!!! I have posted 9 days in a row!!! Obviously I am saving my thoughts about this for tomorrow!
Today I bring you TWO Ancient Vermillion Proverbs and a Youtube. Hopefully the proverbs will bring enlightenment to your day, and the Youtube will make you dance/sing/roll your eyes/change your understanding of life, or whatever.
Ancient Vermillion Proverbs
A day is only as long as an arm in a sleeve.
Silence is golden, but noise has colour and silvery shrieks.
You see! I can do deep and meaningful!! Just like Richard Harris….
First verse and chorus only – look up the rest if you feel the urge, but surely the striped pair of pants have something to do with Mistress MJ??
Spring was never waiting for us, girl
It ran one step ahead
As we followed in the dance
Between the parted pages and were pressed
In love’s hot, fevered iron
Like a striped pair of pants
MacArthur’s Park is melting in the dark
All the sweet, green icing flowing down
Someone left the cake out in the rain
I don’t think that I can take it
‘Cause it took so long to bake it
And I’ll never have that recipe again
Oh no!
Until tomorrow!!!
Wonky Words 
I admire your dedication; just the idea of posting something every day makes me feel the need to go have a lie down.
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Mr Peenee – Before attempting this challenge I felt the exact same way about writing daily blog posts, but I feel differently about it now – more on this tomorrow!
I don’t think I usually manage 10 posts a year, so 10 posts in 10 days is a bit of a turnaround!
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I have not managed to get a post up, let alone one in place and rammed home,
for ages!
But then…Macarthurs Park hit the replay button and I was whisked away on that Magic Carpet of time warps… Mr Harris used to be “well-known” in London’s drinking establishments, back in the day. One of his buddies was a near(ish) neighbour. Nicol something? Don’t remember the name, but do recall some of their drunken antics.
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Dinah – I remember him in Camelot, and surely he must have been on The Parkinson Show at some point? I do recall reading about antics in the papers – and he was one of those 60s/70s actors who turned up in everything.
Apparently he was best buddies with Peter O’Toole. Maybe they shouldn’t have drunk so much in the 60s and 70s – but it does seem like they had a lot of fun!
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P.S I haven’t used it, though I have played with it, but WordPress Block now offers an AI assistant. You can just enter a subject and the assistant will write a post for you. I got it to write a post about Mogwash and it seemed to know more than I did!!! It did make me laugh though I didn’t publish.
I have a paid set up here, and I don’t know if it’s available in all WordPress plans – but have a look for it as it might give you some ideas.
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Cake.
There, you said it.
This could lead to some commotion in the Canadian wilderness, maybe “love’s hot fevered iron” is still resurrectable ?
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Mr Mags – Why has no one ever played this tune for Mistress MJ before? Granted it does go on for 7 minutes – but there is cake! And rain!!
“love’s hot fevered iron”!!! They knew how to write a good euphemism in the 60s!
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I have to get my days online as the ones from high street shops usually stick too far out of my sleeves. It is a bit of a bind.
Oh, and I didn’t know there was a ‘Before Donna Summer’ version of MacArthur Park until now. It sounds strange.
P.S. I hope that someone comments after me as I don’t wish to languish in your soggy bottom!
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I will shore up your soggy bottom, Mr Devine, by replying beneath you.
Oh Yes, Richard Harris before Donna – I nearly went for the Donna version, but the Harris version is more unusual.
I will have to buy you some longer sleeves!
I have been playing with the WordPress AI Assistant this afternoon – I was having a fine old time until I asked it to write about my negative attributes. IT WAS A BIT CLOSE FOR COMFORT!!!! It thought very highly of you, and Mr Mags, but unfortunately mistook Dinah for a family pet.
There have been tears here of the laughing variety!
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AI generated posts? Holy Moly, sweetpea! Richard Harris was perfect in Camelot and that’s the image I’ll always have of him. xoxo
p.s. Well done you having completed so much of your personal challenge!
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Savvy – I’ve had my fun with the AI tool behind the scenes, and now I’ve come to my senses. In the wrong hands it’s dangerous – crikey, I’m not sure that a nitwit like me should have access. I will write a bit about it tomorrow, and my feelings… and give a little demo.
Yes, I liked Richard Harris – he came across as genuine, and a bit of a laugh.
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Firstly, let me say how much I appreciate that you also fork over dough for a paid account to keep away those nasty, annoying advertisements! I consider them “digital pollution.” YouTube is starting to get a lot of those too, but I digress.
I don’t mind if I end up the soggy bottom here as I do live next to a wetland in a rainy area, so I’m used to it.
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Thank you, Melanie – I dislike all the digital pollution as well and some really peculiar ads can pop up on the free plans – products, and companies that I don’t want to be associated with.
Same here regarding the soggy bottom!
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I remember years ago on a flight to Turkey plugging my headphones into the inflight entertainment unit located on the armrest and MacArthur Park, Donna Summer’s version came on and I remember thinking what a horrible song, I didn’t like the Eeee Aaa bit, but saying that it’s not as horrible as Katie Melua’s Closest Thing To Crazy. I have just finished an hours slog on the exercise bike with the sound Neil Diamond still ringing in my ears and I don’t what it replaced with Dumbledore singing MacArthur Park, so I only played it to 2:24 I couldn’t take anymore, my nerves are frayed.
Many a mickel, makes a muckle (whatever mickel and muckles are) and Buy cheap, buy twice are my favourite proverbs, they sort of contradict each other though.
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Mitzi – I think it’s a marmite song – love it or hate it. I’ve loved the lyrics since I was a kid, and I like the 70s jazzy bit in the middle.
I like that proverb too: buy cheap, buy twice – but sometimes there isn’t the option, and cheap it is!
Sorry about the tune. I can’t imagine you on an exercise bike! Or being forced to listen to Neil Diamond for an hour.
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All the sweet, green icing flowing down
Someone left the cake out in the rain
I don’t think that I can take it
‘Cause it took so long to bake it
And I’ll never have that recipe again
Sounds like a metaphor for my life!
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Kylie – And mine!!!
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No drugs involved in those lyrics, obviously! Saying that, however, this song’s a bit of a glitch in Mr Jimmy Webb’s songwriting career – he also wrote some more straightforward (massive) hits such as “Up, Up and Away”, “By the Time I Get to Phoenix” and “Wichita Lineman”. Needless to say, I adore both versions of “McArthur Park”. Jx
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Jon – I read about how McArthur Park came to be written and it makes sense now, it’s very 70s and very sad.
I love Wichita Lineman!
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