Hotel Acceptable amp Friendly Canterbury
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Hotel Acceptable & Friendly, Canterbury.
Rising early c. 06.33 from NightWorld adventures. In First Class on a full flight. A passenger behind me has a white rabbit and doesn’t know how to feed it. I stroke the rabbit and provide an apple, a favourite of WillyFred in DayWorld. This, only one of many adventures.
Morning reading…
… at the trough…
Computing and e-flurrying at the table. More non-industry dissension.
11.03 David has called from DGM HQ. An incoming request to DGM: a radio interview for T&R re: memories of
HMV.
My memory of HMV Oxford Street is of a buyer telling Declan Panegyric, our DGM distributor, that perhaps 50% of their DVDs were “grey”; that is, of questionable origins in respect of licensing and copyright - aka bootlegs.
And, a few days later, of it being suggested to me at a professional function, by an official body supervising legitimacy in the industry, that since the 50% dodgy content supported HMV’s trading of 50% legit content, why quibble? This by a character responsible for policing malfeasance. Well.
I’m not sure whether this is a story that would be welcome, but neither of us is able to do the interview anyway.
11.16 Tributes to the remarkable late Henri Bortoft…
Tributes Bortoft in his own wordsBook review13.39 Walking the Minx over to the Marlowe for interviews and show. Back to e-fury at pitiful data speeds.
Off to visit
Jim Winter 15.46 Onto the High Street I…
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Jim is a very intuitive character, insightful, a good man. An excellent visit, a superb reading.
Returning to e-flurrying and computing,
19.37 Over to collect the Minx at 16.00 I…
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Very cold on the streets. Shopping for T’s groceries and supper.
A few minutes ago, AOL moved from give-up-and-try-to-smile to do-able-ish.
An early gentle.
