Canada Forever

The fact the album in question actually came out months ago and I'm only learning of its existence now, says something as well. By comparison, when Laurie Anderson came out with her new album, I had the CD the day it came out. And I recall with amusement that Billie Eilish's most recent album was issued on CD, vinyl, streaming and cassette! (I think Taylor Swift did something similar not long ago).

It's been a decade now since Victoria debuted (time flies), but people are still harping on the fact that Jenna Coleman's show wasn't a documentary. Which is basically what they're doing in this feature when they go on about the fact the show played up the Lord Melbourne romance. I've read the applicable part of the diaries too, ATI, and there were definitely sparks; I don't know what book you were reading. I had access to a copy printed not long after Victoria died, commissioned by her son.

And the fact an attractive actress was cast as Victoria appears to have been a constant thorn in critic's sides (despite the fact that many portraits of younger Victoria exist and while undoubtedly idealized as all hand-drawn portraits were, there is enough consistency to show that Victoria was not ugly). I wonder if people were this snippy when Emily Blunt and Anna Neagle (neither of whom could be considered unattractive) played Victoria. And while she played Victoria later in life, look at photos of Dame Judi Dench from when she was in her 20s and she was no slouch either. Oh and as for Lord M, most of the portraits I have seen of him suggest that instead of Rufus Sewell being cast they would have been more accurate to have cast Peter Capaldi!

When I think of the term "doom scrolling", I cap that D and think of this...

So this morning I saw a news story on Andy Burhnam, the new UK Prime Minister, on a random news site that turned up in a subscription news feed I follow for work.

The first clue that the site is all AI was the fact that instead of a photo of the new PM it ran a 50-year-old image of the late Andy WARHOL.

I am tempted to link but to be blunt I don't want to provide any support to bulls*it sites. But it really does show how stupid AI can be, and how people who rely on it are being misled en masse.

And it's something that once again drives home the words actor John Rhys-Davies told me at a convention a few years back: "The world will always need editors."

On the plus side, if you know anything about Andy Warhol, this is the type of nonsense he would have approved of.