on the beach (later in the bar wearing glasses)

horsemouth remains unconvinced that the purpose of this photograph is to convince the world that young happening surf chicks in 1974 wore t-shirts by obscure fingerpicking guitar labels (or were indeed themselves aspiring fingerpicking guitarists). nonetheless it could be the case. that joni mitchell could certainly play (strange tunings check, fingerpicking check). 

yesterday was the death day of lightnin' (sam) hopkins. 

'I was in a nice spot...

I was havin' a lot of fun

the po-lice come in and he pulled his gun

you know what I had to do?

 

I had to bottle up and go...'

horsemouth has (for at least the second time) put up a photo of himself in the bar wearing glasses (it's only a matter of time before the mule will need glasses). approval ratings have been good (so much so that the parsimonious  horsemouth is almost ready to contemplate the expense). 

horsemouth contemplated a bbc radio 4 documentary arguing  that it is hard to make a coup these days and adam curtis's  documentary on the collapse of communism in the soviet union (and later democracy).  horsemouth is astonished by the hubris of those who defend democracy - it seems a much more fragile institution than they assume. 

but horsemouth is not bothered. he is on the beach and later he is in a bar. in fact what he is doing is going and buying shoes so that he can go visit mike in a wine bar.  he is doing various things to attempt to make himself look presentable (trimming his beard for example). he will have to be careful to mind his drinking and try and stay out of the cold (because of his teeth).