A Cure for Connex.

Real life has been making unconscionable demands on my time of late, and there hasn't been much opportunity for pausing on the path to ponder issues of import. But arriving at Parliament this morning — to much shouting and jangling of coin tins — I realised I couldn't let the day fly past (like a train with failing brakes) without comment.

For today, you see, is 'Connex for Cancer Day'.


With their long and continuing run of bad press, I find it bewildering that Connex would decide to come out in support of an insidious disease that kills millions every year! Surely they'd have a better chance of generating a little public good will by coming out against cancer, not for it? Am I taking crazy pills? And, to be honest, cancer seems to be doing quite alright by itself, even without Connex getting behind it.

Look, I mean, it's great that Connex want to be a responsible citizen and contribute to the public good, but maybe they need to rethink this one? And in the meantime, maybe they could focus their efforts on curing the ills of their rail network instead.

Stevie Awesome.

Personally, I'm of the view that a blog should be more than just links to videos on YouTube. But every once in a while a clip comes along that's such a feast, it simply has to be shared. And so, please, won't you pull your chair up to the table and get stuck into this incredible clip of Stevie Wonder pounding away on his... drumkit?

And after that, if you've still got room for Jello, shovel down this sumptuous clip of Stevie on Sesame Street playing, imho, his best song ever, Superstition.

And, though I know you're about to burst, please find the room for one final clip of Stevie, again on Sesame St, but this time playin' around with Grover. Go on, it's wafer thin.

Absolutely magnificent.