Usman-Smith

Thank you.
I had not floated in the warm bath of Adam's for a while.
That ability to say it, yet make it mean something else entirely, is a rare gift.

A cartoon by Ron Cobb (1975), showing a shadow of US B-52 bomber above cratered landscape. Two people who look like Vietnamese peasants look up; one says “they’re having problems with their economy again.”

This is from 1975.

I'm empty & aching & I don't know why.....

I have a feeling anyone who goes, from any country, will face an unpleasant experience
As for the fans?
A new ICE age.

They've all come to look for America 🎹🎹🎸

It's truly life affirming when gifted such moments, like touching moving history.
Envy!

Sunset at Xlendi.

There were many on X but I grew out of that hellhole.
Here, some, but it's such a nice place to be.
Only been here a year.
If the apocalypse is avoided I shall no doubt rediscover that buzz.
Signs are not good though.

Good morning from Azerbaijan!

In today's insane world, a haven of peace.
English the primary language.
Drive on same side.
Oddly English, clearly not.
History from Neolithic to Ottoman, to Knights, to WW2 is everywhere on both islands.
If you do DM me.
I wax lyrical about here.
Visitors suffer my joy at showing them around.

Ramla bay on Gozo from Calypso's cave over to Mixta cave. Red sand, the only place it can be found.

Final one.
Calypso's view down to where Odysseus was shipwrecked.
The remnants of a Knights Templar wall are below the surface to stop slave ships beaching.
The recent storms uncovered a Roman Villa under the Red sand that gives Ramla its name.
Mixta cave on the other arm of the bay.
Sunset photos!

You only love twice.
"No Mr Bond I expect you to cry"
Ernst Stavro Blowme felt aggrieved after the script typos ruined his best scene.
The cat seemed unaffected.
They were the ones making a Spectre of themselves.

Live Actually. 📽️
Films could benefit too.

Animals is a more prescient album in today's world.
Live & dead turn on whose invisible friends you follow.
Love & hate.
More interchangeable autocorrects.
1984 just took longer, as ice forms on the edge of my wings.

Pompeii, midday, ruins of the day

Pink Floyd: Love at Pompeii. 🎸🎹

WAR laughed
"When is a war not a war?"
DEATH mused
"Well, I am not reaping souls at the rate of the middle ages"
WAR grinned
"Quantity over quality then?"
"I blame the drones, no more fields of corpses, no more glory"
DEATH snorted
"Glory? They all beg when I collect them & they leave with nothing"

Loving on a prayer here 🎹🎸

The hatred will last generations.
The memory of family lost will last generations.
Trump will be gone in under a decade.
The forever wars will strangle the USA slowly for decades.
Death, the only winner.
Not many countries left will see the USA in a positive light for generations.
War machine.

All you need is live 🎸🎹

They used to paint figurines on bomber nose cones, maybe get the real thing as a figurehead now?

Six years now.
Came to visit, never went back to the UK.
A lotus eater vibe.
Overlooking Calypsos cave & Ramla beach where mythology places Odysseus sojourn on his way back home.
Nolan's film will increase our visitors!
Around the corner Gigantia temple 3800 years old, predates the pyramids.

Every day I have to drag myself out of bed.
Challenging.

Earlier walk...

Small, historic, scenic, impossibly blue sea & sky.
Every modern convenience in a golden setting.
But then I am biased.

He remains iconic!
The rise of the horsemen here happened organically.
Makes me laugh.
So hopefully others, but with an edge in a world seemingly run by madmen.
200 characters & tell a story.
Love a challenge.
Thank you.
DEATH dropped the letter
"A fan!"
WAR sighed
"Not if you visit!"
FAMINE burped

When I said 'Kemi Badenoch is so partisan, under her the Tories would oppose puppies and kittens if Labour said something nice about them', I didn't mean it literally.

We have had decades of preemptive strikes against everything from superguns to biological weapons to nuclear capable missiles.
The one thing in common?
They did not exist.
Thousands died.
There's always another 'threat' to talk up.
9/11 caused a war on a country that none of the terrorists came from

Trumps Alzheimer's makes him believe he is a world class golfer & presidents just a dream he has when sleeping.
He spends most of his time sleeping & golfing so it's an easy sell.

Pearce is too much of a psycho, but then again..🤨

Sea at dawn here

Being retired I can do this all day! 🫣🤣

Sand trap = Iran