Superman

 in the original stories his powers were down to his molecular density and low gravity as Krypton's high gravity not only means he is stronger here, his body is far more dense - it also means he is heavy 

The yellow sun radiation bit was added around the late 70s, it was gravity plus yellow sun - it was much later the became, or seemed to be, the sole reason for the powers 

 under a red sun, on a planet with low gravity he would have strength and be heavier and denser, also indestructible 

maybe without yellow sun he wouldn't be able to fly or have heat and x ray vision, but the other powers would be there 

Faster than a speeding bullet, more powerful than a locomotive, able to leap tall buildings in a single bound - these would all still be there due to the gravity 

presumably there would still be super speed, able to run fast, if not fly 

Like John Carter, when he went to Mars he was strong and could jump high, due to the lower gravity

Fleetwood Mac

 When you consider that the Rumours album was largely about the breakups and relationship problems the band was going through at the time

 Lindsey and Stevie breakup 

Stevie affair with Mick may have started as early as this

 Lindsey started seeing "a young lady" saying "and that put some wind in my sails" - which he attributes why Never Going Back Again ended up being a more upbeat song that it originally might have been 

Christine and John splitting up and later divorcing 

Christine seeing that engineer and John not wanting him around 

Mick splitting up with his wife Jennie 

Sideline - Jenny is the sister of Patty Boyd, wife of George Harrison, who had the affair with Clapton, and who Leyla is written about . 

Track listing Side one No. Title Writer(s) Lead vocals Length 1. "Second Hand News" Lindsey Buckingham Buckingham 2:43 2. "Dreams" Stevie Nicks Nicks 4:14 3. "Never Going Back Again" Buckingham Buckingham 2:02 4. "Don't Stop" Christine McVie Buckingham and C. McVie 3:11 5. "Go Your Own Way" Buckingham Buckingham 3:38 6. "Songbird" C. McVie C. McVie 3:20 Side two No. Title Writer(s) Lead vocals Length 1. "The Chain" BuckinghamMick FleetwoodC. McVieJohn McVieNicks Buckingham with Nicks and C. McVie 4:28 2. "You Make Loving Fun" C. McVie C. McVie 3:31 3. "I Don't Want to Know" Nicks Nicks with Buckingham 3:11 4. "Oh Daddy" C. McVie C. McVie 3:54 5. "Gold Dust Woman" Nicks Nicks 4:51 Total length: 39:03

 "Silver Springs", written by Stevie Nicks, has been included on some reissues as either track 6, 7 or 12 of the album, depending on the pressing. 

Many cassette releases swapped the positions of "Second Hand News" and "I Don't Want to Know".

Hulk

 Bruce Banner in the comic risked his life to save an innocent person 

This is why the Hulk was heroic 

David Banner in the show experiments on himself trying to gain super strength

 They are not the same Banner, not the same person in the two universes 

For this film we see Bruce do the heroic thing and get the gamma that way 

For the MCU, the Ed Norton version, we see him experiment on himself

 Which is disappointing

 The MCU Hulk has a lot of the TV show in it, even the David B on the letters from Sam, the moving from town to town 

And while Ed looks and acts like Bruce from the books, Mark looks more like David from the show 

And the Don't make me angry line gets referred of course

Pulp Fiction

Vincent and Butch  

Vincent is a professional killer with a code of conduct and honour 

He had just been part of executing Brad and was there for Jules killing "flock of seagulls" - he then killed Marvin, albeit by accident, but he showed no remourse

 After killing two and witnessing one, as part of his job, he goes for breakfast then to the club to meet Marsellus and deliver the case 

He is in a bar owned by his "Firm" where he respected, a feared hitman, and Butch is just a Paluka, being paid to throw a fight, making him a piece of shit, a coward 

Also Vince kills men, and Butch has never killed anyone, he is a "virgin" in a hitman's eyes 

Butch is no no warrior like the family men who owned the watch before him, he has never been to war - his war is the ring, but still a game, and now he is giving up what honour he had to throw the fight for money 

Butch had already arranged and decided not to throw the match before this meeting - his phone call about being the "rich and prosperous" as well as having the girlfriend fetch the stuff and have an escape route planned shows this - he made the bets on himself to win and took the bribe money to make a nice fund for himself 

The war watch story is also key - he had the watch and wanted to be a warrior so would never have thrown the match 

The reason he is so calm with Marsellus doing the "pride" speech is because it all meant nothing - he was not going to throw the fight 

He kills Floyd in the match - he is now a killer, even if this was incidental and accidental 

Point is though, once he knows he shows no remorse - a capacity he always had 

When he meets Vincent in the apartment he is no longer a "virgin" so he is able to kill Vince with his own gun - now a true Warrior 

In the shop he could leave Marsellus to be killed, and that would end the search for him - his honour as a Warrior, which he always had, compels him to go back and rescue the helpless, not innocent, but helpless man, who is being tortured and will then be killed. 

He kills one of the men and is ready to kill the second before "step aside, Butch" - he has gone from a "virgin" to a warrior who has killed two enemies

 Keep in mind he was also ready to kill Marsellus with his own gun before being stopped 

  

 We can't boil every injury down to one single blow. 

What hurts us is cumulative. It happens over time. We absorb blow after blow, shock after shock, painful hit after hit. 

But even then, even if we know exactly how we got here, it doesn't mean we can fix it.

 You can't heal every wound and that's okay. 

 even if something seems like it cannot be fixed, it doesn't mean it's broken.

January - The Wolf Month

 

the Saxon term Wulf-monath 
meaning "Wolf Month" 

Saturday January 3 -Wolf Moon - The first full moon - and a supermoon

 

• January 3 (Wolf Moon): The first full moon and a supermoon.

January - the Wolf Moon

Wolf Moon

Said to be so named for the wolf's hungry howling during mid-winter nights.




It’s thought that January’s full Moon came to be known as the Wolf Moon because wolves were more likely to be heard howling at this time. It was traditionally believed that wolves howled due to hunger during winter, but we know today that isn’t accurate.

Howling and other wolf vocalizations are heard in the wintertime to locate pack members, reinforce social bonds, define territory, and coordinate hunting.


Another fitting name for this full Moon is the Center Moon. Used by the Assiniboine people of the Northern Great Plains, it refers to the idea that this Moon roughly marks the middle of the cold season.
Other traditional names for the January Moon emphasize the harsh coldness of the season: Cold Moon (Cree), Frost Exploding Moon (Cree), Freeze Up Moon (Algonquin), and Severe Moon (Dakota). Hard Moon (Dakota) highlights the phenomenon of the fallen snow developing a hard crust.
Canada Goose Moon (Tlingit), Great Moon (Cree), Greetings Moon (Western Abenaki), and Spirit Moon (Ojibwe) have also been recorded as Moon names for this month

  That’s what they used to call it when your parents got divorced, even though getting divorced was the least broken they ever did. 

 I wondered if broken homes were where broken people lived.

to this day I still wonder. 

You can build a house out of anything, make it as strong as you want, but a home, a home is more fragile than that. A home is made of the people you fill it with and people can be broken,

what's broken can be mended, what's hurt can be healed, that no matter how dark it gets, the sun's gonna rise again.

January

 

Moon 2026

 

Moon 2026

 13 full moons, 

including three supermoons (Jan 3, Nov 24, Dec 23) 

and a rare Blue Moon in May, 

plus two total lunar eclipses, 

spectacular celestial events like the Wolf Supermoon to start the year 

and a big finale Cold Moon, 

Key Moon Events in 2026:

• Supermoons:
  • January 3 (Wolf Moon): The first full moon and a supermoon.
  • November 24 (Beaver Moon): Another supermoon.
  • December 23 (Cold Moon): The year's biggest supermoon, the closest of the year.
• Blue Moon:
  • May 31: The second full moon in May, making it a Blue Moon.
• Lunar Eclipses:
  • March 3: A total lunar eclipse.
  • September 26: Another total lunar eclipse.
• Full Moon Dates (UK Times):
  • Jan 3, 
  • Feb 1, 
  • Mar 3, 
  • Apr 2, 
  • May 1, 
  • May 31, 
  • Jun 30, 
  • Jul 29, 
  • Aug 28, 
  • Sep 26, 
  • Oct 26, 
  • Nov 24, 
  • Dec 23. 
  • 
    

• More than usual: 2026 has 13 full moons instead of the typical 12 due to the timing of the lunar cycle and calendar months.
• Bigger & Brighter: Supermoons appear larger and brighter as they are near their closest point to Earth.
• Spiritual Significance: Blue Moons are often seen as powerful times for introspection and manifesting desires 

 I blink January’s lashes

and gush down December’s cheeks

 JANUARY,

The first month of the year,
A perfect time to start all over again,
Changing energies and deserting old moods,
New beginnings, new attitudes

December is letting go,
Of all the past year's fails,
And starting anew in January,
As time again chases its tail.

  In January a man crawls into a cave of hopelessness; 

he hallucinates sympathies catching fire. 

Letters are glaciers, 

null frigates, 

trapping us where we are in the moment, 

unable to carry us on toward truth

 Dickensian poverty tends to occur after Christmas in January. 

For it is then, with pockets empty, 

diary decimated and larder bare,

 that the general populace sinks into a collective pauper's hibernation

 until Valentine's Day

 Find salvation after Christmas?

So save up your kisses,
Dampen down your ardour,
And maybe we can smooch,
In January's restocked larder

 Maybe January light will consume

My heart with its cruel Ray, 

stealing my key to true calm.

 HAIL, January, that bearest here

On snowbright breasts the babe-faced year
That weeps and trembles to be born.
Hail, maid and mother, strong and bright,
Hooded and cloaked and shod with white,
Whose eyes are stars that match the morn.
Thy forehead braves the storm's bent bow,
Thy feet enkindle stars of snow.

 For January I give you vests of skins,

And mighty fires in hall, and torches lit;
Chambers and happy beds with all things fit;
Smooth silken sheets, rough furry counterpanes;
And sweetmeats baked; and one that deftly spins
Warm arras; and Douay cloth, and store of it;
And on this merry manner still to twit
The wind, when most his mastery the wind wins.
Or issuing forth at seasons in the day,
Ye’ll fling soft handfuls of the fair white snow
Among the damsels standing round, in play:
And when you all are tired and all aglow,
Indoors again the court shall hold its sway,
And the free Fellowship continue so.

 January

Janus am I; oldest of potentates; 
Forward I look, and backward, and below 
I count, as god of avenues and gates, 
The years that through my portals come and go.
 
I block the roads, and drift the fields with snow; 
I chase the wild-fowl from the frozen fen; 
My frosts congeal the rivers in their flow, 
My fires light up the hearths and hearts of men.

 All is quiet on New Year's Day

Nothing changes on New Year's Day

I will be with you again

Under a blood red sky

I will begin again

I'm singing hallelujah

Amen, the angels say

Let's hope tomorrow finds us

For all of our tomorrows

And what was yesterday

I'm saying seize the day

Come on, let's live forever

Where does the time go

It's New Year's Day

New Year’s Day

  

New Year’s Day - Song by U2

 

All is quiet on New Year's Day
A world in white gets underway
I want to be with you
Be with you night and day
Nothing changes on New Year's Day
On New Year's Day

I will be with you again
I will be with you again

Under a blood red sky
A crowd has gathered in black and white
Arms entwined, the chosen few
The newspapers says, says
Say it's true, it's true
And we can break through
Though torn in two
We can be one

I, I will begin again
I, I will begin again

New Year's Day - Song by Bon Jovi

 

The midnight bells are ringing
A ship is setting sail
A newborn baby's crying
As lovers say farewell

I'm singing hallelujah
Amen, the angels say
Let's hope tomorrow finds us
It's New Year's Day

Let's toast to new beginnings okay
Raise up a glass and say
For all of our tomorrows
And what was yesterday come on

I'm singing carpe diem
I'm saying seize the day
Come on, let's live forever
It's New Year's Day

Where does the time go
Just watch the wind blow
Sha la la la
It's New Year's Day
Green does the grass grow
Outside my window
Sha la la la
It's New Year's Day

This message in a bottle
The wisdom of the wine
It's just a rainy Monday
This isn't Auld Lang Syne

I'm singing hallelujah
Amen, the angels say
Let's hope tomorrow finds us
It's New Year's Day

January

 

Fresh starts thanks to the calendar they happen every year

 just set your watch to January, our reward for surviving the holiday season is a new year. Bringing on the great tradition of new years resolutions, put your past behind you and start over.

 It’s hard to resist the chance of a new beginning, a chance to put the problems of last year to bed. 

Who gets to determine when the old ends and the new begins?

 It’s not a day on a calendar, not a birthday, it’s not a new year, it’s an event— big or small, something that changes us, ideally it gives us hope, a new way of living and looking at the world, letting go of old habits, old memories. 

What's important is that we never stop believing we can have a new beginning, 

but it's also important to remember that amid all the crap are a few things really worth holding on to.

Find salvation after Christmas?

So save up your kisses,
Dampen down your ardour,
And maybe we can smooch,
In January's restocked larder

December is letting go,

Of all the past year's fails,
And starting anew in January,
As time again chases its tail.

January is the first month of the year in the Julian and Gregorian calendars. Its length is 31 days. The first day of the month is known as New Year's Day. It is, on average, the coldest month of the year within most of the Northern Hemisphere (where it is the second month of winter) and the warmest month of the year within most of the Southern Hemisphere (where it is the second month of summer). In the Southern hemisphere, January is the seasonal equivalent of July in the Northern hemisphere and vice versa.

There is a breed of Tuesday in January in which time creeps and no light comes and the air is full of water and nobody really loves anybody.

Lots of people go mad in January. Not as many as in May, of course. Nor June. But January is your third most common month for madness

I blink January’s lashes
and gush down December’s cheeks

JANUARY,
The first month of the year,
A perfect time to start all over again,
Changing energies and deserting old moods,
New beginnings, new attitudes

December is letting go,
Of all the past year's fails,
And starting anew in January,
As time again chases its tail.

. In January a man crawls into a cave of hopelessness; he hallucinates sympathies catching fire. Letters are glaciers, null frigates, trapping us where we are in the moment, unable to carry us on toward truth

Dickensian poverty tends to occur after Christmas in January. For it is then, with pockets empty, diary decimated and larder bare, that the general populace sinks into a collective pauper's hibernation until Valentine's Day

Find salvation after Christmas?

So save up your kisses,
Dampen down your ardour,
And maybe we can smooch,
In January's restocked larder

HAIL, January, that bearest here
On snowbright breasts the babe-faced year
That weeps and trembles to be born.
Hail, maid and mother, strong and bright,
Hooded and cloaked and shod with white,
Whose eyes are stars that match the morn.
Thy forehead braves the storm's bent bow,
Thy feet enkindle stars of snow.

Maybe January light will consume
My heart with its cruel
Ray, stealing my key to true calm.

January

Janus am I; oldest of potentates; 
Forward I look, and backward, and below 
I count, as god of avenues and gates, 
The years that through my portals come and go.
 
I block the roads, and drift the fields with snow; 
I chase the wild-fowl from the frozen fen; 
My frosts congeal the rivers in their flow, 
My fires light up the hearths and hearts of men.


For January I give you vests of skins,
And mighty fires in hall, and torches lit;
Chambers and happy beds with all things fit;
Smooth silken sheets, rough furry counterpanes;
And sweetmeats baked; and one that deftly spins
Warm arras; and Douay cloth, and store of it;
And on this merry manner still to twit
The wind, when most his mastery the wind wins.
Or issuing forth at seasons in the day,
Ye’ll fling soft handfuls of the fair white snow
Among the damsels standing round, in play:
And when you all are tired and all aglow,
Indoors again the court shall hold its sway,
And the free Fellowship continue so.



the Saxon term Wulf-monath 
meaning "Wolf Month"