Won't happen. You've got the music in you.

I was only saved by having the record within easy enough reach to put it on.

I mean, when the (Swedish) military did their draft check-ups, if you scored in the top 10 percentile on their aptitude test, you had to go take a signalling test that was all Morse code based.

The whole Jay Leno quitting and then coming back is clearly the inciting incident for the Melancholy King Conan season.

I want those shoes.

Here he is taking the photo.

And Sneakers for the experience of him, Ben Kingsley, and Sidney Poitier doing the 70s conspiracy thriller thing (in 1992), while Dan Aykroyd, River Phoenix, and David Strathairn is doing the fun heist movie thing at the same time.

Well, if I gotta be earwormed, it could be worse.

"I think this is a mistake we make too often when we're thinking about bringing light into dark times for each other. We think of it as having to be precise and perfect for it to work." @marissalingen.bsky.social on baking and fighting the good fight:

mrissa.dreamwidth.org/1210034.html

I mean, we did have to take some pretty bad beatings from the Russians for it to sink in. And the officer class/nobility didn't stop agitating for various eastern adventures until Finland became independent at the end of WW1.

Speaking as a Swede - seems like a good cause.

But he did get to go out with a bang.

Though with that picture, you'd be forgiven if you decided to turn it to more of an Morten Harket.

Licoriss (Sweden, so usually it's actually "lakrits.")