Some mornings when I’m having trouble finding a reason to emerge from my warm cave of wool and sleep, I get the coffee going, rub some embrocation on my chest and take a gander at the wonderful photos from XXC while listening to the melancholy joytunes of Guided by Voices.

Yes, this is an endorsement of Good Things™. Go buy the Guided by Voices compendium “Human Amusements at Hourly Rates” . Remember: I’ll never ask for the truth, but you owe that to me.

(Heck, if that doesn’t work, playing “War Pigs” at full volume usually works pretty damned well.)