stormy Saturday morning

Waking up to listen to early Mekons & the Gang of Four. I never connected to the Mekons when i was exploring early punk, an arbitrary miss on my part. Superior Viaduct is reissuing their first singles, which challenged me to re-explore what I was missing. Youtube keeps slipping Gang of Four into autoplay & they're too good to swap tabs to force it back to the Mekons.

Mueller has evidence that Trump supporter's meeting with Putin ally may not have been a chance encounter. The Mueller investigations leave me cold except when it veers into what Erik Prince being involved. He met with George Nader in New York prior to Prince's trip to the Seychelles, meeting with Kirill Dmitriev there. Once again, it's all about Putin & Russia, but no mention of China. Dmitriev has interests in China, as does Erik Prince. It shouldn't be about a "stolen" election, but a worldwide network of billionaire oligarchs operating outside any normal understanding of nations.

Simon Pegg Said J.J. Abrams Had A Different Plan for Rey’s Parents in Star Wars. Abrams would be a fool to mess that up. Rey being outside of any dyanastic line in Star Wars is one of the best things to come out of the new movies. It's more important that having a female protagonist unto itself. A woman who is no one.

Revisiting the Raincoats now. I heard the Raincoats many times back in the '90s, liked them well enough, but no matter how many times i come back to them, I feel that I underestimated them previously.

Massive Ancient Drawings Found in Peruvian Desert. "...archaeologists suspect that the earlier Paracas and Topará cultures carved many of the newfound images between 500 B.C. and 200 A.D." 50 new glyphs, many of which depict human figures.

Fluted Spear Points Prove Early Native Americans Liked to Travel.  "...we found that early settlers in the emerging ice-free corridor of interior western Canada were traveling north to Alaska, not south from Alaska, as previously interpreted.”



Found the oldest Neanderthal wooden tools in the Iberian Peninsula. 90,000 years old. Fire hardened. Aranbaltza. Not even close in age to the 170k old wooden tools found in Central Italy.

DNA from another mystery human ancestor lingers in some people. West Africa. Yoruba. Homo heidelbergensis?

Parts of the Amazon thought uninhabited were actually home to up to a million people. Cool to see that this has become the new mainstream.