So what do you do when the news finishes on tv? And its late (because you have the news on series record because you’re stupid and obsessive and its not like you believe what most of the lying scumbags who appear on it say anyway), but you just have a quick flick and… The Blues Brothers is on. Oh my. Now Pretty Woman is on another channel because the new law states: masks MUST be worn in shops; Pretty Woman MUST be on every night. But the Blues Brothers. Which is without doubt, possibly, my favourite film of all time. It simply has it all: stupidity, insanity, driving cars way too fast, crashing cars in vast numbers, complete madness, brilliant songs by incredible artists, a storyline so ridiculous as to be virtually irrelevant to the plot (no other movie ever has achieved that particular feat) and it even features Illinois Nazis. Dan Aykroyd, John Belushi, Carrie Fisher, James Brown, Aretha!!!, Ray Charles, Cab Calloway and so many other luminaries in the worlds of comedy and music. Rather than, errr, acting, note. But how many films have the line: “we got a full tank’a gas, half a pack’a cigarettes, its dark and we’re wearing sunglasses”. You don’t get that in Gone with the Wind or the Godfather. ‘We’re on a mission from God’. As it must have felt for John Landis who directed a drug-crazed John Belushi, when he could find him on shoot days and sober him up sufficiently. It’s legendary. Not necessarily in a good way. All fabulously related by Bob (Watergate) Woodward in his brilliant biography of Belushi called ‘Wired’, which shows the genius and insanity (strong connection) of the big guy as he self-destructed. What? You thought Jonny Depp invented drugs and terrible behaviour? RIP, JB.

And, all you (little) Englanders, today is FUCKING MASK UP, YOU NOB!!!! day. As of midnight last night (in case you were making a late trip for some quinoa that just couldn’t wait) it is COMPULSORY, it is MANDATORY to wear a mask in all enclosed spaces. All of them. Other than the exceptions. Of which there are many. So if you walk into a take-away food store YOU ARE BREAKING THE LAW if you’re not wearing a mask. However, if you decide to perch on a stool and eat the food there, you may remove that mask for the eating. And remaining time. Even though you’re just as likely to be infected/not infected as you were before. Taking a mask off in public is ILLEGAL unless you want to. Or need to. Or have to. Or don’t feel like wearing the thing. But the basic rule is WEAR THE MASK!!

It almost makes you wonder what might have happened if they’d said that back in March. But heh, who am I, who are we, to question.

Happy Tennis morning (I hope, weather looking iffy)

A xxxx