I had a couple of random thoughts.

The first one was about bullying. I have told my son that if he is gets bullied to attack the bully back as hard as possible. Don’t hold back. The theory is that a bully will only pick on weak kids who don’t fight back (well it was good advice from my dad that worked for me). If you fight back then the bully will find a more compliant victim. Looking at world politics and war I believe this concept to be scalable. I would go on but I don’t want to upset readers in the US.

The other one was about early 70s heavy metal. I was enjoying the Wolf Mother EP and trying to pin down whether it was closer to Black Sabbath or Led Zeppelin. The wonder is that the Wolf Mother EP sounds so vibrant and fresh using musical style that I though had been truly exhausted. The thought was that only talented youth are only capable of producing good heavy metal, not that the genre was dead. I guess you could have used Jet as the example. This naturally leads to the question ‘was eighties hair rock heavy metal or an exercise in homoerotica?’ I don’t know, I kind of dismissed the whole period as a joke. I could go on for hours….

So now you have an insight into how disorganised my mind really is.